Product Description
This market-leading text is well known for its reliable, comprehensive coverage of over 200 complete skills. Heavily illustrated, each skill follows the nursing process framework and is presented in an easy-to-follow, two-column format with rationales for each step. This edition retains such popular features as guidelines at the beginning of each chapter, delegation principles for each skill, special considerations for various age groups and care settings, and unexpected outcomes with related nursing interventions. Plus, expanded coverage of cultural and pediatric considerations, new skills, and new features make this edition better than ever!

Comprehensive coverage of over 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills.
Nursing process framework provides a logical, consistent presentation.
Over 1,100 vivid, full-color photographs and drawings aid understanding.
Rationales for each step in the skill explain why steps are performed in a specific way.
Delegation Principles for each skill discuss the nurse's responsibilities when assigning tasks to assistive personnel.
UNIQUE! Critical Decision Points address key information to consider when performing skills to ensure effective outcomes and promote safety.
Skill Performance Guidelines at the beginning of each chapter provide guidelines applicable to all skills in the chapter.
Expected outcomes identify the anticipated client response to the procedure.
Reporting and recording guidelines in each skill include what to document and examples of how to word it.
Considerations for client teaching, pediatric, geriatric, long-term care, and home care address specific needs.
Critical thinking exercises at the end of each chapter promote development of decision-making abilities.

New skills and procedural guidelines include: communicating with the depressed client; fire, electrical, and radiation safety; local analgesic infusion pump; supporting clients and families in grief; symptom management in palliative care; care of clients with immobilization devices; selection of support surface/mattress (Procedural Guideline); eye irrigation; noninvasive automatic BP; wound vacuum assisted closure; measuring occult blood in gastric secretions; and use of the automatic external defibrillator (AED).
A new Disaster Preparedness chapter and added coverage of code management address current practice issues.
Pediatric variations and considerations covered in greater depth.
Cultural Implications sections focus on providing culturally-sensitive care.
Evidence-Based Practice Trends at the beginning of each chapter provide an overview of recent research findings and implications for skills included in the chapter.
Focus on Clinical Practice at the end of each chapter presents case scenarios and critical thinking questions that address issues involving topics that include unexpected outcomes and cultural considerations.
Two-column format for Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions presents information in an easy-to-follow format.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 8 reviews)

Nursing book

This book was a required text for my nursing course and the book itself was very helpful for skills lab. Compared to the bookstore at school, this was a very good deal. However, I wasn't too happy about the condition of the book. I purchased a brand new one and paid extra to have it shipped overnight. The book arrived to me in a very bad condition with the first chapter all torn off and sloppily glued back in. The books condition wasn't worth my money.
September 21, 2007

Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques Text and Checklists Package

Book was required for nursing school, checklist has too many steps. But other than that it's a pretty good book with lots of pictures demonstrating the different techniques.
September 09, 2007

Good but look for something better

Many of my classmates stopped reading the text half way through the semester. Perry & Potter are masters of creating step by step lists of fundamental procedures, but often leave out important details (especially during procedures requiring aseptic technique). We used this text in conjunction with the evolve course. The evolve course has great videos, and the lessons and explanations are better written than the accompanying text. I am actually looking for another fundamentals book because I just don't see myself referring back to this tome of "written ambien" anytime in the future.
August 02, 2007

Poorly written

I would not have purchased this book had it not been required by my "Intro to Professional Nursing" course. This reference book contained many typos (like not converting properly to metric units), conflicting information in some areas, not enough information in others (like finding important landmarks for assessments), not to mention it weighs a ton. On the other hand, the NCLEX review questions at the end of each chapter are somewhat helpful to evaluate your comprehension. If you have the option, don't waste your money on this text. If you don't have the option, I still would not buy the book but pay close attention and take good notes during skills lecture/lab.
July 27, 2007

lab in a book

I don't understand why we had to purchase this book for a nursing fundamentals lab since the lab instructor gives us the relevant information verbally. Not useful except maybe as a reference for the forgetful.
March 28, 2007

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