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More About This Title The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical NursingProcedures Professional Edition 9e
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Nationally recognised as the definitive guide to clinical nursing skills, The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures has provided essential nursing knowledge and up-to-date information on nursing skills and procedures for over 30 years. Now in its 9th edition, this full-colour manual provides the underlying theory and evidence for procedures enabling nurses to gain the confidence they need to become fully informed, skilled practitioners.
Written with the qualified nurse in mind, this manual provides up–to–date, detailed, evidence–based guidelines for over 200 procedures related to every aspect of a person′s care including key information on equipment, the procedure and post-procedure guidance, along with full colour illustrations and photos.
Following extensive market research, this ninth edition:
- contains the procedures and changes in practice that reflect modern acute nursing care
- includes thoroughly reviewed and updated evidence underpinning all procedures
- is organised and structured to represent the needs of a patient along their care pathway
- integrates risk-management into relevant chapters to ensure it is central to care
- contains revised procedures following ‘hands-on’ testing by staff and students at Kingston University
- is also available as an online edition
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OBE, RN, MSc, DClinP
Nurse Consultant Intravenous Therapy
The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Sara Lister
RN, PGDAE, BSc (Hons), MSc, MBACP
Assistant Chief Nurse/Head of School
The Royal Marsden School of Cancer Nursing & Rehabilitation
The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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Detailed table of contents vii
Foreword to the ninth edition xiii
Acknowledgements xiv
List of contributors xv
List of abbreviations xix
Quick reference to the procedure guidelines xxiii
How to use your manual xxvii
1 Introduction 1
Part One Managing the patient journey 7
2 Assessment and discharge 9
3 Infection prevention and control 49
Part Two Supporting the patient with human functioning 95
4 Communication 97
5 Elimination 133
6 Moving and positioning 207
7 Nutrition, fl uid balance and blood transfusion 253
8 Patient comfort and end-of-life care 331
9 Respiratory care 431
Part Three Supporting the patient through the diagnostic process 507
10 Interpreting diagnostic tests 509
11 Observations 595
Part Four Supporting the patient through treatment 673
12 Medicines management 675
13 Perioperative care 789
14 Vascular access devices: insertion and management 861
15 Wound management 935
Index 967
