Handbook of evidence-based clinical interventions and risk assessment
By: edited by George Castledine and Suzanne Reed
Series: Clinical effectiveness and evidence-based nursing series; Clinical effectiveness and evidence-based nursing series
Publisher: Quay Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Salisbury, Wiltshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781856422574
Subjects: Nursing; Evidence-based medicine; Nursing Care; Methods; Risk Assessment; Evidence-Based Medicine
Notes: "In association with Nuffield Hospitals"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: How accurate is that blood pressure measurement? --; title: Pain management --; title: Does the use of a pain assessment chart improve postoperative control in adult major surgery patients? --; title: Pain assessment chart --; title: Do nurses have enough knowledge to look after patients using patient-controlled analgesia? --; title: PCA analgesia record form --; title: Giving acupuncture treatments for musculo-skeletal pain --; title: Heparin versus saline --; title: Clinical effectiveness applied to peripherally inserted central catheter lines compared to central lines in chemotherapy --; title: Infection control in intravascular therapy --; title: Moving total hip replacement patients --; title: An investigation into the feasibility of patient self-administration of medication --; title: Pre-operative fasting --; title: Educating patients --; title: Pre-administration clinics --; title: Preventing pressure ulcers --; title: Braden pressure sore assessment and action tool --; title: Giving information to patients --; title: Alleviating patient anxiety --; title: Peripheral venous cannulation and the risk of phlebitis --; title: Effective follow up care after discharge from hospital using the telephone method --; title: Wound care --; title: Surgical wound assessment tool --; title: Taking of post-operative temperatures --; title: The effective use and application of AV impulse system --; title: Deep vein thrombosis -- risk assessment --; title: Deep venous thrombosis risk assessment scale --; title: Thromboembolic prevention guidelines --; title: The highs and lows and to and fro of oxygen therapy --; title: Urinary tract infections in post-operative adult patients with short-term in-dwelling catheters --; title: Pre-colonoscopy bowel preparations --; title: Recovery from anaesthesia -- risk assessment --; title: Post-anaesthetic recovery scale --; title: Evidence-based nutritional risk-assessment scale (for children aged three to eleven years) --; title: Optimising patient safety during blood transfusion : the importance of the bedside checking procedure and monitoring of vital signs --; title: Blood transfusion chart --; title: Nutrition screening for adults --; title: Inpatient nutritional screening tool --; title: Care pathways --; title: Audit toolkit.