Avoiding Common Nursing Errors (Avoiding Common Errors) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605470872 ISBN 13: 9781605470870

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009

Synopsis

This handbook succinctly describes over 500 common errors made by nurses and offers practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding these errors. Coverage includes the entire scope of nursing practice—administration, medications, process of care, behavioral and psychiatric, cardiology, critical care, endocrine, gastroenterology and nutrition, hematology-oncology, infectious diseases, nephrology, neurology, pulmonary, preoperative, operative, and postoperative care, emergency nursing, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatric nursing. The book can easily be read immediately before the start of a rotation or used for quick reference.

Each error is described in a quick-reading one-page entry that includes a brief clinical scenario and tips on how to avoid or resolve the problem. Illustrations are included where appropriate.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1605470872
• ISBN 13: 9781605470870
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 547
• Editor: Garber Jeannie Scruggs, Gross Monty Ph.D., Slonim Anthony D. M.D.