Care Skills for Nurses
Student Survival Skills Series

Survive clinical skills training with this essential guide for all student nurses.

Providing words of wisdom and advice from real-life student nurses, Care Skills for Nurses is an easy-to-read, quick-reference guide to all the key care skills you need to know ? boosting your confidence and competence both in the clinical skills lab and on your clinical placements.

Special features:

• Developed by students, for students
• Clear, straightforward, and jargon-free
• Ties in with the NMC standards for pre-registration education and the Essential Skills Clusters
• Examples and questions based on real life nursing and healthcare situations
• Available in a range of digital formats

PREFACE vii

INTRODUCTION ix

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi

1 CARE AND COMPASSION IN NURSING 1

2 BASIC INFECTION CONTROL AND ASEPTIC TECHNIQUE 7

3 PERFORMING PERSONAL CARE 23

4 CONTINENCE CARE 35

5 PRESSURE ULCER CARE 49

6 PATIENT SAFETY 63

7 STOMA CARE 81

8 PERI-OPERATIVE CARE 93

9 ANAPHYLAXIS 105

10 ECG RECORDING 125

11 NUTRITION AND HYDRATION CARE 139

12 WOUND CARE 153

ANSWERS TO ACTIVITIES, QUESTIONS AND TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE 167

APPENDIX 1: THE COMPONENTS OF MEDICAL WORDS AND TERMS 175

APPENDIX 2: WEIGHT CONVERSION CHARTS 189

INDEX 191

Claire Boyd is a Practice Development Trainer at North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK.