Best practices :  evidence-based nursing procedures 

 - Second edition. 
 - Philadelphia :  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,  c2007. 
 - xi, 628 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes index. 
<br/><br/>What is best practice? --<br/>Basic care --<br/>Infection control --<br/>Intravascular therapy --<br/>Cardiovascular care --<br/>Respiratory care --<br/>Neurologic and sensory care --<br/>Gastrointestinal care --<br/>Renal and urologic care --<br/>Orthopedic care --<br/>Skin care --<br/>Obstetric, neonatal, and postpartum care. 
<br/><br/> 	<br/>"Best Practices: Evidence-Based Nursing Procedures, Second Edition, gives you the evidence at every step to improve patient outcomes. The evidence that supports your actions: at-a-glance graphic symbols underscoring the research weight behind more than 200 procedures; support for thousands of nursing actions from research studies, the judgment of experts, and medical and nursing guidelines from AHRQ, AHA, INS, JCAHO, NIH, and many others; clinical impact of key recommendations; alerts to crucial nursing considerations; Innovative practices that have proven successful for your colleagues; and controversial issues, both resolved and ongoing, behind practice points; blood pressure classifications, new algorithms for stroke and pulseless arrest, surgical site verification, BLS algorithm, jugular venous oxygen saturation monitoring, amnioinfusion, newborn eye prophylaxis, tocolytic therapy, vacuum extraction; current nursing diagnoses, including expected outcomes; and teaching points for correctly educating your patient about his illness, treatment, and self-care."--Jacket. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781582555324 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>NURSING -- QUALITY CONTROL<br/>NURSING -- STANDARDS<br/>EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RT 85.5 .B47 2007