Includes index.

What is best practice? --
Basic care --
Infection control --
Intravascular therapy --
Cardiovascular care --
Respiratory care --
Neurologic and sensory care --
Gastrointestinal care --
Renal and urologic care --
Orthopedic care --
Skin care --
Obstetric, neonatal, and postpartum care.

"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.