Best Practices A Guide to Excellence in Nursing Care

This unique text provides nurses comprehensive clinical practices supported by research findings. Each entry features a synopsis of the practice and reviews by multiple research studies and respected medical and nursing organizations. Topics include issues important to nursing practice assessment; nursing diagnosis; patient monitoring; drug therapies; medication administration; infusion therapy; alternative and complementary therapies; treatments; patient teaching; and, documentation and guidelines for specialty groups, such as pediatric, geriatric, and maternal-neonatalpatients. Charts and tables help to illustrate research studies, and graphic logos call out controversial issues, clinical impact, and treatments "in the news." An appendix lists resources and Internet resources.