<p>Master nursing skills with this guide from the respected Perry, Potter & Ostendorf author team! The concise coverage in <b>Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills, 6th Edition </b>makes it easy to master the clinical skills required in everyday nursing practice. Clear guidelines address 159 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills — from measuring body temperature to insertion of a peripheral intravenous device — and step-by-step instructions emphasize the use of evidence-based concepts to improve patient safety and outcomes. Its friendly, easy-to-read writing style includes a streamlined format and an Evolve companion website with review questions and handy checklists for each skill.</p><ul><b> <li>Coverage of 159 skills and interventions</b> addresses basic, intermediate, and advanced skills you'll use every day in practice.</li> <li><b>UNIQUE! <i>Using Evidence in Nursing Practice</i> chapter</b> provides the information needed to use evidence-based practice to solve clinical problems.</li> <li><b><i>Safe Patient Care</i> <i>Alerts</b></i> highlight unusual risks in performing skills, so you can plan ahead at each step of nursing care.</li> <li><b><i>Delegation & Collaboration</i> guidelines</b> help you make decisions in whether to delegate a skill to unlicensed assistive personnel, and indicates what key information must be shared. </li> <li><b><i>Special Considerations</b></i> indicate additional risks or accommodations you may face when caring for pediatric or geriatric patients, and patients in home care settings.</li> <li><b>Documentation guidelines</b> include samples of nurses’ notes showing what should be reported and recorded after performing skills.</li> <li><b>A consistent format for nursing skills </b>makes it easier to perform skills, always including Assessment, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.</li> <li><b>A <i>Glove</i> icon</b> identifies procedures in which clean gloves should be worn or gloves should be changed in order to minimize the risk of infection.</li> <li><b>Media resources </b>include skills performance checklists on the Evolve companion website and related lessons, videos, and interactive exercises on <i>Nursing Skills Online</i>. </li> </ul><ul><b> <li>NEW coverage of evidence-based techniques</b> <b>to improve patient safety and outcomes</b> includes the concept of care bundles, structured practices that have been proven to improve the quality of care, and teach-back, a new step that shows how you can evaluate your success in patient teaching.</li> <li><b>NEW! Coverage of HCAHPS</b> (Hospital Care Quality Information from the Consumer Perspective) introduces a concept now widely used to evaluate hospitals across the country. </li> <li><b>NEW! Teach-Back</b> <b>step </b>shows how to evaluate the success of patient teaching, so you can be sure that the patient has mastered a task or consider trying additional teaching methods. </li> <li><b>NEW! Updated 2012 Infusion Nurses Society</b> <b>standards </b>are incorporated for administering IVs, as well as other changes in evidence-based practice.</li> <li><b>NEW</b> <b>topics </b>include communication with cognitively impaired patients, discharge planning and transitional care, and compassion fatigue for professional and family caregivers.</li></ul>