Publisher's Synopsis
For students, preceptors, and staff development educators in a wide-variety of situations, including initial orientation, in-service training, and continuing education.
Unique in approach, this text features five stand-alone advanced skills chapters designed to meet the needs of a variety of special caregivers, multifunctional workers, and cross-trained registered nurses. Building on whatever prior knowledge and skills students bring with them, it helps them acquire new skills as they are needed--e.g., administering enteral nutrition, neurological function assessment, oxygen therapy and respiratory therapy, and changing a vascular access device. Each advanced skill is outlined in step-by-step form, followed by an individual competency validation.
