Clinical Skills Manual for Maternal & Child Nursing Care

"This colorful skills atlas serves as a portable, quick reference for step-by-step maternal-newborn and pediatric nursing skills. The third edition of this valuable manual guides you through 150 skills using full-color photographs and rationales, including 30 maternal-newborn and more than 100 pediatric skills. Special features include: chapters on physical assessment, special pain management techniques, cardiorespiratory care, administration of medications (including intravenous access), and other information helpful to nurses in the clinical setting; a short description of each skill, followed by the preparation that the nurse needs, equipment and supplies required for the unique skill, and the procedure itself, presented step by step; margin boxes and tables highlighting important safety issues, growth and development considerations, teaching and home care facts for families, and clinical tips; and appendices containing growth grids, blood pressure levels, and calculation of body surface area for medication administration."--Publisher's description.