Clinical Survival Guide

This pocket sized quick-reference guide is not rivalled by anything else on the market. As a support text, Reid-Searl’s Nursing Student’s Clinical Survival Guide assists students with tips to competently conduct clinical skills for safe and person-centred care in clinical settings..

Whether used individually across students’ education and into early practice or as a tool to compliment more comprehensive texts.

24-HOUR CLOCK

  • Protecting yourself and the patient
  • Standard precautions
  • Additional precautions
  • Hand hygiene
  • Personal protective equipment (ppe)
  • Body fluids exposure
  • Moving patients safely
  • Falls prevention
  • Venous thromboembolism (vte) prevention
  • Signs of stroke

MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION

  • Five rights and more
  • Tips in preventing medication errors
  • Safety tips with oral medications
  • Safety tips with injections
  • Medication administration and student nurses
  • Abbreviations used in medication administration
  • Checks for medications and intravenous fluids at shift changeover
  • Medication orders
  • Metric system and symbols
  • Drug calculations/formulas
  • Drug name endings and related information
  • Drugs and antidotes

OXYGEN CONCENTRATION DELIVERY FLUID BALANCE

  • Measurements useful for fluid balance charts
  • Tips with fluid balance charts
  • Classification of urine output
  • Types of iv fluids
  • Drip rates
  • Intravenous site checks
  • Body weight method for calculating daily maintenance fluids

VITAL SIGNS

  • Vital signs: normal ranges
  • Early warning systems

QUICK HEAD-TO-TOE ASSESSMENT PAIN ASSESSMENT

  • Common sites of referred pain from various body organs

LANDMARKS TO IDENTIFY ABDOMINAL AREAS

  • The nine abdominal regions
  • The four abdominal quadrants

BLOOD VALUES

NORMAL VALUES IN A URINALYSIS

MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT

RESUSCITATION

  • Cardiac rhythms
  • Recognition of deterioration
  • CPR
  • Basic life support flow chart
  • Paediatric cardiopulmonary arrest flow chart
  • Adult cardiorespiratory arrest flow chart
  • Choking flow chart

WOUND CARE

  • Factors that inhibit healing
  • Wound types
  • Phases of wound healing
  • Wound assessment
  • Pressure injuries
  • Stages of pressure injuries
  • Pressure injury risk assessment tools
  • Pressure injury prevention
  • Wound dressings
  • Some wound-care products
  • Calculation of ankle/brachial pressure index (abpi)
  • Skin tears

NURSING PROCESS DOCUMENTATION

  • Practice guidelines
  • Writing with soapie

Clinical HANDOVER

  • ISBAR
  • Tips for verbal shift-to-shift handovers for students

CHECKLIST TO BE COMPLETED AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH SHIFT

USEFUL WEBSITES

GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS

(PEA2717)

SKU PEA2717
Shipping Weight 0.0540kg
Shipping Width 0.085m
Shipping Length 0.110m
Unit Of Measure each