Nursing Student's Clinical Survival Guide

✍ Scribed by Kerry Reid-Searl, Trudy Dwyer, Lorna Moxham

• Publisher: Pearson Education (AUS)
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 157
• Edition: 5
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Cover
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Clinical Survival Guide
Introduction: Clinical Survival Guide
1. 24-hour clock
1. 24-hour clock
2. Safety in health care
Safety in health care
Standard precautions
Transmission-based precautions
Use of transmission-based precautions
Hand hygiene
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Sequence for putting on (PPE)
Body fluids exposure
Moving a patient safely
Falls prevention
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention
3. Medication safety
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
4. Oxygen concentration delivery
4. Oxygen concentration delivery
5. Fluid balance
Fluid balance
Fluid balance safety tips
Classification of urine output
Fluid losses
6. Assessment of the patient
Assessment of the patient
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
7. Blood values
7. Blood values
8. Normal values in a urinalysis
8. Normal values in a urinalysis
9. Mental health assessment
9. Mental health assessment
10. Resuscitation
Resuscitation
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
11. Wound care
Wound care
Wound classification
Wound types
Phases of wound healing
Wound assessment
Classification of wounds for infection
Pressure injuries
Pressure injury risk assessment tools
Pressure injury prevention
Skin tears
Wound-care products
Calculation of ankle/brachial pressure index (ABPI)
12. Clinical reasoning cycle
12. Clinical reasoning cycle
13. Communication
Communication
Writing with SOAPIE
14. Clinical handover
Clinical handover
PACE
15. Time management grid
15. Time management grid
16. General abbreviations
16. General abbreviations
17. Useful websites
17. Useful websites
Footnotes