TY - BOOK AU - Castaldi,Patricia A. TI - Skills performance checklists to accompany clinical nursing skills & technique SN - 0323031595 [paperback] PY - 2006/// CY - St. Louis, Missouri PB - Mosby Elsevier KW - Nursing KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc N1 - Contents: Chapter 1: Admitting, transfer, and discharge - Chapter 2: Communication -- Chapter 3: Reporting and recording -- Chapter 4: Safety -- Chapter 5: Disaster preparedness -- Chapter 6: Comfort -- Chapter 7: End of life care/palliative care -- Chapter 8: Medical asepsis -- Chapter 9: Sterile technique -- Chapter 10: Body mechanics, transfer, and positioning -- Chapter 11: Exercise and ambulation -- Chapter 12: Orthopedic measures -- Chapter 13: Support surfaces and special beds -- Chapter 14: Personal hygiene and bed making -- Chapter 15: Pressure ulcer care -- Chapter 16: Care of eye and ear prostheses -- Chapter 17: Vital signs -- Chapter 18: Health history and physical examination -- Chapter 19: Preparing for medication administration -- Chapter 20: Oral and topical medications -- Chapter 21: Parental medications -- Chapter 22: Oxygen therapy -- Chapter 23: Performing chest physiotherapy -- Chapter 24: Airway management -- Chapter 25: Closed chest drainage system -- Chapter 26: Emergency measures for life support -- Chapter 27: Intravenous therapy -- Chapter 28: Blood transfusions -- Chapter 29: Oral nutrition -- Chapter 30: Enteral nutrition -- Chapter 31: Parental nutrition -- Chapter 32: Urinary elimination -- Chapter 33: Bowel elimination and gastric intubation -- Chapter 34: Ostomy care -- Chapter 35: Preoperative and postoperative care -- Chapter 36: Intraoperative care -- Chapter 37: Wound care and irrigations -- Chapter 38: Dressings -- Chapter 39: Binders and bandages -- Chapter 40: Hot and cold therapy -- Chapter 42: Home care teaching -- Chapter 43: Specimen collection -- Chapter 44: Diagnostic procedures ER -