Clinical Skills: Essentials Collection (Access Card): Fundamentals and Health Assessment (Other) (ISBN-13: 9780323394499)

Learn to master the most important nursing skills before you ever step foot in the clinical environment. Clinical Skills: Essentials Collection is an engaging, web-based learning tool that guides users through more than 160 of the most important fundamentals and health assessment nursing skills. Each skill in the collection uses the same seven-part framework to walk you through every aspect of the skill. From special patient and safety considerations to the equipment and techniques used in the skill, this assembly of high-definition videos, interactive learning tools, and in-depth explanations will leave you with a 360-degree understanding of how to safely and effectively perform each skill.

• Convenient web-based program
utilizes the same professional format that practicing nurses use to train.
• Consistent, competency-based format for learning skills offers a standardized way for you to learn and perform skills. Most skills feature the same types of skill learning tools to help you obtain a more holistic understanding of the skill and standard QSEN nursing competencies.

• Quick sheet provides a concise, step-by-step summary of the skill.
• Extended text offers an in-depth look at all aspects of the skill. Subjects addressed in the extended text section include:

• Safety alerts
• Supplies
• Patient and family education
• Procedures
• Delegation opportunities
• Monitoring and care
• Expected and unexpected outcomes
• Documentation guidelines
• Special gerontologic, pediatric, and home care considerations
• Evidence-based references
• Additional reading suggestions
• Interactive visual supply list features roll-over labeling to familiarize you with each piece of equipment needed to perform the skill.
• Demonstration videos and animations visually guide you through every necessary step involved in the skill.
• Images and illustrations highlight crucial procedures, equipment, and documents involved in the skill.
• Review questions and competency tests with rationales help you review and evaluate your understanding of the skill.
• Printable evaluation checklists help you measure and track various skill competencies.
• Up-to-date, evidence-based content is reviewed and revised annually by clinical skills experts to reflect changes in practice as they arise.


Author: Elsevier Inc
ISBN-10: 0323394493
ISBN-13: 9780323394499
Publisher: Elsevier
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2015
Format: Other
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.21w x 0.21d