Nursing Student's Clinical Survival Guide, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (April 23, 2024) © 2024

  • Kerry Reid-Searl Central Queensland University
  • Trudy Dwyer Central Queensland University
  • Lorna Moxham Central Queensland University
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  • Mapped to MSQHS and NMBA Standards
  • A quick-reference guide
  • Culturally safe practices

A pocket-sized guide that supports nursing students throughout their education and into the workplace

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Nursing Student's Clinical Survival Guide is not rivalled by anything else on the market. As a support text, this quick-reference guide assists students with tips to competently conduct clinical skills for safe and person-centred care in clinical settings.

Whether used individually by nursing students through their education and into early practice or as an educator-prescribed tool to complement a text such as Berman's Skills in Clinical Nursing, Clinical Survival Guide supports students to deliver competent person-centred care in professional practice, practices, and standards.

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  • 24-HOUR CLOCK
  • SAFETY IN HEALTH CARE
  • Standard precautions
  • Transmission-based precautions
  • Other precautions
  • Hand hygiene
  • Personal protective equipment (PPE)
  • Body fluids exposure
  • Moving a patient safely
  • Falls prevention
  • Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention
  • MEDICATION SAFETY
  • The 'six rights' and 'more'
  • Medication orders
  • Medication safety requirements
  • Intramuscular injection sites
  • Medication administration and student nurses
  • Abbreviations used in medication administration
  • Peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) maintenance
  • Metric system and symbols
  • Drug calculations/formulas
  • Drug name endings and related information
  • High-risk medicines resource (APINCHS)
  • Drugs and antidotes
  • OXYGEN CONCENTRATION DELIVERY FLUID BALANCE
  • Useful measurements for fluid balance charts
  • Fluid balance safety tips
  • Classification of urine output
  • Fluid losses
  • Fluid redistribution properties
  • ASSESSMENT OF THE PATIENT
  • Vital signs
  • Vital signs: normal ranges
  • Early warning systems (ADULT)
  • Head-to-toe assessment
  • Signs of stroke
  • Signs of sepsis
  • Neurovascular assessment
  • Pain assessment
  • Common sites of referred pain from various body organs
  • The four abdominal quadrants
  • BLOOD VALUES
  • NORMAL ELECTROLYTE VALUES FOR ADULTS
  • NORMAL VALUES OF BLOOD GASES
  • NORMAL VALUES IN A URINALYSIS
  • MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT
  • RESUSCITATION
  • Cardiac rhythms
  • When to seek help/person review
  • CPR
  • Basic life support flow chart
  • Paediatric advanced cardiovascular life support
  • Adult advanced cardiovascular life support
  • Choking flow chart
  • WOUND CARE
  • Factors that inhibit healing
  • Wound classification
  • Wound types
  • Phases of wound healing
  • Wound assessment
  • Pressure injuries
  • Stages of pressure injuries
  • Pressure injury risk assessment tools
  • Pressure injury prevention
  • Skin tears
  • Wound-care products
  • Calculation of ankle/brachial pressure index (ABPI)
  • CLINICAL REASONING CYCLE
  • COMMUNICATION
  • Guidelines for All documentation (written or electronic)
  • Writing with SOAPIE
  • Writing with PIE
  • CLINICAL HANDOVER
  • ISBAR
  • PACE
  • TIME MANAGEMENT GRID
  • GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS
  • USEFUL WEBSITES

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