Second Edition
Shakuntla Sharma ‘Birpuri’ MA (Eng Lit) MSc (N)
Professor and Principal Bee Enn College of Nursing Jammu (J&K),
India
Ex-principal AMT School Government Medical College Jammu (J&K),
India
Member Board of Studies, University of Jammu (J&K),
India
Member Secretary Managing Committee, Bee Enn College of Nursing Jammu (J&K),
India
Ex-member Governing Body J&K State Medical Faculty, Jammu (J&K),
India
Examiner UG and PG Courses in Nursing, Various Universities
Winner President's Silver Medal, Sharda Viswanathan Award Vatas Vikal Award
email: prjamt@rediffmail.com
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Principles and Practice of Nursing
First Edition: 1997
Reprint: 2002, 2005
Second Edition: 2012
9789350253762
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5PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
It gives me immense satisfaction to present the second edition of Principles and Practice of Nursing based on the course and curriculum of nursing foundations practical to our nursing readers.
This edition retains the features of that have already been included while introducing revisions that will make the content more relevant. The rationales given in Appendix B have been included in the text side by side in this edition for easy access by the readers. A new Chapter 21 that covers common antenatal, intranatal and postnatal procedures, have also been included in this edition.
Every care has been taken to keep the text comprehensive, well illustrated and still handy to enhance its utility.
My warm thanks to the dynamic team of M/s Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. New Delhi for publishing this text in an impressive form.
I am highly indebted to my honorable mother-in-law late Smt Thakuri Devi and my beloved mummy late Smt Chander Kanta Sharma and daddy late Shri Paras Ram Sharma who always blessed me for the progress of my career.
I am extremely thankful to my husband Shri Udhey Chand Sharma, daughter Rohini Sharma and son Rahul Sharma for their constant help and support during the preparation of this text.
Constructive criticisms and valuable suggestions towards improvement of future editions are sincerely welcomed.
7PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
With a feeling of immense pleasure, I present this text to the students, educators and practitioners in nursing. Although a lot of literature is available to acquire and gain mastery over the essential clinical skills of nursing, yet students, educators and practitioners continue to search for better material to satisfy their needs and curiosity and also to fulfill their professional and legal accountability. Hence, this book tries to cover all these aspects plus helps the student to acquire the clinical skills through an approach that is quite simple and easily accessible.
This book covers the syllabus prescribed by the “Indian Nursing Council” to meet the requirements of students of all categories and educators in nursing practice.
This text contains the detailed information to understand the nursing procedures and each procedure is divided into the following segments, i.e.
- A brief explanation about the “procedure”.
- “Purpose” that explains why the procedure is performed and/or what effect the procedure will have on the patient.
- “Supplies” that are required to organize and perform the procedure.
- “Guidelines” that provide additional information concerning the procedure.
- “Nursing activity” that provides step-by-step approach to perform the procedure. The rationales for using certain procedures and steps in specific techniques are described in Appendix B. The serial number of rationales are mentioned along the steps for easy reference.
- Inclusion of numerous illustrations allows the students to visualize certain steps of “Nursing activity” and independently and confidently gain competency in each area.
- “Recording” that provides the legal protection and achieved outcome which serves to reassess the effects of procedure on the patient.
The text has been made:
- Comprehensive by including all the basic and advanced clinical skills in nursing.
- Up-to-date by including most current information.
- Standardized by including an organized and systematic approach to quality nursing care for the patient.
The criticism and valuable suggestions of the readers are welcomed for further improvement of this book.
9ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many persons have contributed during the preparation of this text and hence, I take this opportunity to acknowledge the help of each one of them with love and my special tribute to the following versatile professionals of Medical College, Jammu and Ms Meena Aggarwal, Sr Lecturer, Department of Nursing Education, AIIMS, New Delhi, for giving her eminent suggestions which helped me to make the creation of this textbook possible.
Dr TR Sharma, Professor and Head, Department of Radiotherapy; Dr YK Dubey, Professor and Head, Department of Pathology; Dr OP Bhagat, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedics; Dr PR Sharma, Physician Specialist, CD Hospital; Dr SD Bassi, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; Dr Sunil Sharma, Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology; Dr Sudershan Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia; Dr Surinder Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Dr SK Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology; Dr Yogeshwar Mengi, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery; Dr SS Sudan, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine; Dr Manoj Kumar Sharma, Lecturer; Department of Medicine; Dr Gan Shayam, Lecturer, Department of Radiodiagnosis; Dr Sunita Gupta, Lecturer, Department of Radiodiagnosis; Dr Anil Gupta, Lecturer, Department of Orthopedics; Dr Rajiv Gupta, Postgraduate Student, Department of Surgery.
I am extremely grateful to my colleagues and staffs of various libraries for extending their generous assistance.
I am highly indebted to my honorable mother-in-law Smt Thakuri Devi, husband Mr Udhey Chand Sharma, daughter Rohini Sharma and son Rahul Sharma for their patience, cooperation and constant encouragement. I am also thankful to my husband and my son for drawing many illustrations for the text.
I am grateful to Mr TR Tagotra for typing the manuscript, Mr Ajay Amla for computer printing of the manuscript and Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd for taking up the publication of this book.
It is impossible for me to express my adequate gratitude to my beloved mummy, late Smt Chander Kanta Sharma and daddy Shri Paras Ram Sharma who always inspired and encouraged me to bring out this book and the other three, i.e. Badsees (novel), Lokacharian (a collection of poems), and Pinjra (a collection of short stories) in dogri language (my mother tongue).
I will also be thankful to the readers who will send their criticism and valuable suggestions for further improvement of this text.