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Advanced Skills for Health Care Providers, 2nd Edition

Barbara Acello

  • Copyright 2007
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Advanced Skills for Health Care Providers 2nd Edition by Barbara Acello
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Overview

This book was written to prepare the nursing assistant or patient care technician to provide advanced patient care procedures. The book includes content on sterile procedures, including preparing and working with a sterile field, using sterile technique, and performing sterile dressing changes, wet to dry dressings. Venipuncture technique is covered in several chapters as well as intravenous procedures and many other advanced skills.

The importance of reporting information and observations to the licensed supervisor is emphasized throughout the book. To this end, most chapters contain special text boxes listing observations to be reported and recorded. Added highlights within the text narrative include safety and infection control alerts, and age related information; information that is important to the student and in keeping with the latest health care trends.

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Barbara Acello

Barbara Acello is an independent nurse consultant and educator in Denton, Texas. She is an active, contributing member of the Texas Nurses Association and the American College of Healthcare Administrators, where she was honored with the national Educator of the Year Award in 2007, the Journalism Award in 2009 and the Chair's Award -- the organization's highest honor -- in 2016 for her years of extraordinary service. Stretching across four decades, her nursing career includes work in hospitals, long-term care facilities and home health, with geriatrics as her preferred area of clinical practice. Presently, she is involved with freelance consulting, lecturing and writing. She has written and contributed to many textbooks, journal articles, instructor guides, computerized test banks, quick reference guides, nursing and managerial reference books, online inservices and supplemental instructional materials for health care personnel. Believing that the nursing assistant is the most important caregiver in the health care facility, Acello is committed to improving working conditions, education and professionalism for these vital professionals. She may be contacted at [email protected].

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  • Content is current, timely, and relevant.
  • Contains important observation and reporting guidelines.
  • Safety alerts
  • Cover age-related information, which is required by accrediting organizations

Table of Contents

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Chapter 1 Health Care Delivery
Chapter 2 Observation, Documentation, and Reporting to the RN
Chapter 3 Infection Control
Chapter 4 Surgical Asepsis
Chapter 5 Wound Care
Chapter 6 Phlebotomy
Chapter 7 Intravenous Therapy
Chapter 8 Urinary and Bowel Elimination
Chapter 9 Enteral Nutrition
Chapter 10 Specimen Collection
Chapter 11 Perioperative Care
Chapter 12 Heat and Cold Applications
Chapter 13 Caring for Patients with Special Needs
Chapter 14 Advanced Respiratory Procedures
Chapter 15 Endotracheal Tube and Tracheostomy Care
Chapter 16 Cardiac Care Skills
Chapter 17 Emergency Procedures

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  • ISBN-10: 0357236491
  • ISBN-13: 9780357236499
  • RETAIL $77.95

  • ISBN-10: 1418001333
  • ISBN-13: 9781418001339
  • RETAIL $182.95
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