Learn the clinical nursing skills you will use every day and prepare for success on the Next-Generation NCLEX
®
Examination!
Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 11th Edition
provides clear, step-by-step guidelines to more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills. With more than 1,200 full-color illustrations, a nursing process framework, and a focus on evidence-based practice, this manual helps you learn to think critically, ask the right questions at the right time, and make timely decisions. Written by a respected team of experts, this trusted text is the bestselling nursing skills book on the market!
Comprehensive coverage includes
more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced nursing skills and procedures.
Rationales for each step within skills
explain the "why" as well as the "how" of each skill and include citations from the current literature.
Clinical Judgments
alert you to key steps that affect patient outcomes and help you modify care as needed to meet individual patient needs.
UNIQUE!
Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions
sections
highlight what might go wrong and how to appropriately intervene.
Clinical Review Questions
at the end of each chapter
provides case-based review questions that focus on issues such as managing conflict, care prioritization, patient safety, and decision-making.
More than 1,200 full-color photos and drawings
help you visualize concepts and procedures.
Nursing process format
provides a consistent presentation that helps you apply the process while learning each skill.
NEW!
All-new
Clinical Judgment in Nursing Practice
chapter
incorporates concepts of the NCSBN clinical judgment model
.
Updated evidence-based literature
is incorporated throughout the skills.
NEW! End-of-chapter questions and end-of-unit unfolding case studies
provide optimal preparation for the
Next-Generation NCLEX
(NGN).