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Basic Concepts of Nursing Procedures I Clement

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION TO NURSING
CHAPTER 1:INTRODUCTION TO NURSING
- NIGHTINGALE'S PLEDGE
- LIBERAL MEANING OF THE WORD NURSE
- ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF A NURSE
- DEFINITIONS OF NURSING
- BASIC NURSING PRINCIPLES
- NURSING SCIENCE
  - Steps of Scientific Method
- NURSING AS A PROFESSION
- ROLE AND FUNCTIONS OF A NURSE
- PERSON-CENTERED NURSING CARE (NURSING PROCEDURES)
- NURSE AS A MEMBER OF THE HEALTH CARE TEAM
- ETHICAL ISSUES IN NURSING
- LEGAL ISSUES IN NURSING
CHAPTER 2:NURSING PROCESS
- DEFINITION
- STEPS IN NURSING PROCESS
- BENEFITS OF NURSING PROCESS
- NURSING ASSESSMENT
- NURSING DIAGNOSIS
- NURSING PLANNING
- NURSING IMPLEMENTATION
- NURSING EVALUATION
  - Evaluation will Answer the Following Questions
  - Formal Evaluation Models
CHAPTER 3:PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
- DEFINITION
- PURPOSES
- METHODS OF EXAMINATION
- HEAD TO TOE EXAMINATION
- PREPARATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT
- PREPARATION OF THE EQUIPMENTS
  - Articles Appropriate for Specific Examination
- PREPARATION OF THE PATIENT
  - Physical Preparation
  - Mental Preparation
- ASSISTANCE IN THE EXAMINATION
- CARE AFTER EXAMINATION
- NURSE'S RESPONSIBILITIES DURING PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
SECTION II: NURSING FOUNDATION PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 4:CARE OF PATIENTS UNIT
- DEFINITION
- OPTIMUM ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PATIENT
- INFLUENCE OF EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
- FURNISHING PATIENTS UNIT
- PURPOSE OF THE UNIT CARE
- PRINCIPLES OF GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
- TYPE OF WARDS IN PATIENT UNIT
- CLEANING OF THE UNIT
- DISINFECTION OF THE UNIT
CHAPTER 5:BED MAKING
- DEFINITION
- PURPOSES
- PRINCIPLES INVOLVED
  - Types of Beds
- GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
- PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT
  - Check
- EQUIPMENT
- PROCEDURES
- STRIPPING AND REMAKING AN OPEN BED
- AFTERCARE OF THE PATIENT, WITH AN EQUIPMENT
- UNOCCUPIED BED OR CLOSED BED
- OPEN BED
- OCCUPIED BED
- OPERATION BED
- CARDIAC BED
- FRACTURE BED
- AMPUTATION BED
CHAPTER 6:PROCEDURE OF ADMISSION, TRANSFER AND DISCHARGE
- ADMISSION PROCEDURE
- TRANSFER PROCEDURE
- DISCHARGE PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 7:VITAL SIGNS
- PRINCIPLES
- METHODS OF MEASUREMENT
- NORMAL VALUES
- GUIDELINES FOR TAKING VITAL SIGNS
- TEMPERATURE
- PULSE
- RESPIRATION
- BLOOD PRESSURE
CHAPTER 8:POSITIONS
- POSITIONING
- TYPES OF POSITIONS
- LATERAL POSITION
- SIM’S POSITION
CHAPTER 9:COMFORTABLE MEASURES
- DEFINITION
- PURPOSES
- PRINCIPLES RELEVANT TO COMFORT
- CAUSES OF DISCOMFORT
- FACTORS PROMOTING PHYSICAL COMFORT
  - Immediate Needs
  - Mechanical Devices
CHAPTER 10:ISOLATION TECHNIQUE/BARRIER NURSING
- DEFINITION
- PURPOSES
- GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
- CROSS-INFECTION
- ASEPSIS
  - Medical Aseptic Techniques Used to Break the Chain of Infection
- METHODS /TYPES OF ISOLATION
- HANDWASHING
- SURGICAL HANDWASHING
- GLOVING TECHNIQUE
- DISINFECTION OF ARTICLES
  - Disinfectant
  - Concurrent Disinfection
- TERMINAL DISINFECTION
  - Fumigation with Sulfur
  - Fumigation with Formalin
CHAPTER 11:STERILIZATION
- DEFINITION
- PURPOSES
- SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES
- METHODS OF STERILIZATION
- PHYSICAL METHODS OF STERILIZATION
- RADIATION METHOD OF STERILIZATION
  - Articles to be Sterilized
    - Advantages
    - Disadvantages
  - Types
    - Advantages
    - Disadvantages
- CHEMICAL DISINFECTANTS
CHAPTER 12:HYGEINE (PERSONAL HYGIENE)
- DEFINITIONS
  - Hygiene
  - Types
  - Factors Influencing Hygiene Practices
- PERSONAL HYGIENE
  - Definition
  - Purposes of Personal Hygiene and Protect from Disease
  - Principles
  - Factors Influences on Personal Hygiene
  - Importance of Personal Hygiene
  - Nurses Role in Personal Hygiene
- CARE OF HAIR
  - Objectives
  - Scientific Principles
  - Types of Hair Care
  - Problems of Neglected Hair Care
- CARE OF THE EYES, NOSE AND EARS
  - Essential Steps in Eye, Ear and Nose
  - Common Problems of Neglected Care
- ORAL HYGIENE
  - Purposes
  - Patient Who May Require Frequent Mouth Care
  - Scientific Principles
  - Solutions Commonly Used for Mouthwash
  - Dentifrices Used
  - Emollient Used Commonly
  - Preliminary Assessment of the Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
  - Complication of Neglected Mouth Care
  - Complication of the Neighboring Structure
    - General Complications
    - Systemic Complications
  - Recording and Reporting
  - Care of Dentures
- BED BATH
  - Purposes
  - Types of Patients Needing Bed Bath
  - Types of Cleansing Bath
  - Scientific Principles
  - Factors Affecting the Skin
  - General Instructions
  - Preliminary Assessment
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
- CARE OF EYES, NOSE AND EARS
  - Purposes
  - Factors Affecting
  - Common Problems
    - Eye
    - Ear
    - Nose
  - General Instructions
    - Eye
    - Ear
    - Nose
  - Preliminary Assessment
    - Check
    - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Procedures
  - Aftercare
- CARE OF HANDS, FEET AND NAILS
  - Purposes
  - Factors Affecting the Care
  - Examination Includes
  - Common Problems
  - Special Foot Care
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- BACK CARE/ BACK MASSAGE / BACKRUB
  - Purposes
  - General Instructions
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- CARE OF PRESSURE POINTS/BEDSORE
  - Purposes
  - Cause of Pressure Sores
  - Predisposing Factors
  - Common Sites Liable to Get Bedsore
  - Clinical Manifestation of Pressure Sore
  - Preventive Measure of Bedsore
  - Stages/Degree of Pressure Sore
- CARE OF HAIR
  - Purposes
  - Three Aspects of Hair care
  - Factors Influence on Hair
  - Factors Affecting Hair
  - Common Hair Scalp Problems
- HAIR COMBING
  - General Instructions
  - Preliminary Assessment
    - Check
    - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- HAIR WASH/BED SHAMPOO
  - Purposes
  - General Instructions
  - Preliminary Assessment
    - Check
    - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- PEDICULOSIS TREATMENT
  - Purposes
  - Dangers
  - Prevention
  - Medications Used for Pediculosis Treatment
  - Types of Pediculi
  - General Instructions
  - Preliminary Assessment
    - Check
  - Equipments
  - Preparation of the Patient and the Unit
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- CARE OF THE PERINEUM
  - Purposes
  - Perineum Care for Special Group of Patients
  - Preliminary Assessment
    - Check
    - Preparation of the Patient and the Environment
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- CLOTHING
- EXERCISE
  - Importance of Physical Exercise
  - Types
  - General Instructions
- HABITS
  - Definition
  - Types of Healthy Habits
  - Common Problems of Bad Habits
- SEXUAL HEALTH
  - Definition
  - Components of Sexuality
  - Characteristics
  - Importance
- MENTAL HEALTH
  - Definition
  - Mental Exercise
  - Principles Contributing to Mental Health
  - Purposes of Mental Hygiene
  - Approaches of Mental Hygiene
  - Characteristics of Mentally Healthy Person
CHAPTER 13:NUTRITION
- IMPORTANCE OF NUTRITION
- APPETITE
  - Factors Affecting Appetite
    - Factors Increasing Appetite
    - Factors Decreasing Appetite
- DIET IN SICKNESS
- TYPES OF DIET
- FEEDING THE HELPLESS PATIENT
- NASOGASTRIC TUBE INSERTION
- GASTRIC GAVAGE
- GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY FEEDING
- BREASTFEEDING
- ARTIFICIAL FEEDING
CHAPTER 14:URINARY ELIMINATION
- DEFINITION
- PHYSIOLOGY
  - Factors Influencing
- DIAGNOSTIC EXAMINATION
  - Conditions which Alter Urinary Elimination
- ROLE OF NURSE
- COMMON URINARY PROBLEMS
- USE OF URINALS
- INSERTION OF A FLATUS TUBE
- CATHETERIZATION OF THE URINARY BLADDER
- BLADDER IRRIGATION
CHAPTER 15:BOWEL ELIMINATION
- FACTORS AFFECTING BOWEL ELIMINATION
- COMMON PROBLEMS IN BOWEL ELIMINATION
- USE OF BEDPAN
- ENEMA
- BOWEL WASH
CHAPTER 16:HOT APPLICATION
- DEFINITION
  - Purposes
- CLASSIFICATIONS
- COMPLICATIONS
- GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
- HOT WATER BAG
- INFRARED THERAPY
- HOT FOMENTATION
- STEAM INHALATION
- SOAK OR LOCAL BATH
- SITZ BATH
- COUNTER-IRRITANTS
CHAPTER 17:COLD APPLICATION
- DEFINITION
  - Purposes
- CLASSIFICATION
  - Local Cold Application
  - General Cold Application
- PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
  - Primary Effects
  - Secondary Effects
- CONTRAINDICATIONS
- PRINCIPLES INVOLVED
- COMPLICATIONS
- GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
- COLD COMPRESS
- ICE CAP/ICE COLLAR
- TEPID SPONGE/COLD SPONGE
- COLD PACK
CHAPTER 18:BANDAGING
- DEFINITION
- PURPOSES
- GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- TYPES
- MATERIALS
  - Assessing before Applying Bandage
- EQUIPMENTS
- PROCEDURES
- SPECIAL BANDAGES
CHAPTER 19:BINDERS
- PURPOSE
  - Types
- EQUIPMENTS
- PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 20:WOUND CARE
- DEFINITION
  - Purpose of Dressing
- TYPES OF DRESSING
- PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT
- EQUIPMENTS
- PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 21:ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICINES
- TERMINOLOGY
- DEFINITIONS
- SOURCES OF DRUGS
- DRUG INFORMATION SOURCES
  - Official Compendia
  - Non-Official Compendia
- SYRINGES AND NEEDLES
- DRUG ADMINISTRATION
- ORAL MEDICATION
- INJECTIONS
- INTRAMUSCULAR INJECTION
- SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION
- INTRADERMAL INJECTIONS
- INTRAVENOUS INJECTION
- INTRAVENOUS INFUSIONS
- TRANSDERMAL ROUTE
  - Advantages
- TRANSMUCOSAL
  - Sublingual
    - Advantages
    - Disadvantage
  - Rectal Routes
- TOPICAL
- SPECIAL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS
- INSTILLATION OF EAR DROPS
- INSTILLING NASAL DROPS
CHAPTER 22:SPECIMEN COLLECTION
- DEFINITION
- PURPOSES
- PRINCIPLES
- GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
- EQUIPMENTS
- PROCEDURE FOR URINE COLLECTION
- URINE CULTURE
- STOOL ROUTINE TEST AND CULTURE
- SPUTUM CULTURE
- BLOOD SMEAR
- BLOOD CULTURE
- THROAT SWAB
- VAGINAL SWAB/SMEAR
- URINE TESTING
CHAPTER 23:MOBILITY AND EXERCISE
- MOBILITY
- EXERCISE
  - Effects of Exercise
- ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING
- BODY MECHANICS
- RANGE OF MOTIONS
- LIFTING AND TRANSFERRING
CHAPTER 24:OXYGEN ADMINISTRATION
- PURPOSES
- CLASSIFICATIONS
- HOME OXYGEN THERAPY
CHAPTER 25:CARE OF PATIENT WITH DISABILITIES
- CARE OF PATIENT WITH FEVER (HYPERPYREXIA)
- CARE OF PATIENT WITH PARALYSIS
- CARE OF PATIENT WITH DYSPNEA
- CARE OF PATIENT WITH TRACTION
- CARE OF PATIENT IN A CASTS
- CARE OF PATIENT WITH UNCONSCIOUSNESS
- CARE OF DYING PATIENT AND AFTER DEATH
CHAPTER 26:CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (CPR-BASIC)
- DEFINITION
- PURPOSE
- EQUIPMENTS
- GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
- PROCEDURE
- METHOD
- RATIO OF CARDIAC COMPRESSION TO VENTILATION
  - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation—One Rescuer
  - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Progress
SECTION III: MEDICAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES (GENERAL)
CHAPTER 27:MEDICAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES (GENERAL)
- ABDOMINAL PARACENTESIS
  - Purposes
  - Indications
    - Diagnostic
    - Therapeutic
  - Contraindications
    - Primary
    - Secondary
  - General Instructions
  - Routine Investigations
  - Preliminary Assessments
    - Check
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
    - Site and Position
  - Equipments
    - An Unsterile Tray
    - A Sterile Tray
  - Procedure
    - Preprocedure Care
    - Postprocedure Care
  - Complications
- THORACENTESIS
  - Purposes
  - General Instructions
  - Preliminary Assessment
    - Check
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
    - A Sterile Tray
    - An Unsterile/Clean Tray
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- LUMBAR PUNCTURE
  - Purposes
    - Indications
  - Contraindications
  - General Instructions
    - Cerebrospinal Fluid Analysis
  - Preliminary Assessments
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
    - An Unsterile Tray
    - A Sterile Tray
  - Procedures
  - Aftercare
  - Complications
- BONE MARROW BIOPSY AND ASPIRATION
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - Site and Position of the Patient
  - General Instructions
  - Preliminary Assessment
    - Check
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
    - A Sterile Tray
    - An Unsterile Tray
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
  - Other Complications
- RENAL BIOPSY
  - Indications
  - Types
  - Site and Position
  - Contraindications
  - Investigations
  - General Instructions
  - Preliminary Assessment
    - Check
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
    - A Sterile Tray
    - An Unsterile Tray
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- CERVICAL BIOPSY
  - Types of Cervical Biopsy
  - General Instructions
  - Preliminary Assessments
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
    - A Sterile Tray
    - An Unsterile Tray
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- SUTURE REMOVAL
  - Purpose
  - Principles
  - Usual Timings
  - Factors Affecting
    - Types of Suture
  - General Instructions
  - Preliminary Assessments
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- BLOOD TRANSFUSION
  - Purposes
  - General Instructions
  - Preparations
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- INTRAVENOUS CUTDOWN
  - Purposes
  - Principles
  - Preliminary Assessments
  - Preparation of the Patient
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- SURGICAL SOAK
  - Purposes
  - Preliminary Assessment
  - Preparation of the Patient
  - Equipments
  - Solutions
  - Procedures
- PREOPERATIVE NURSING CARE
  - Purposes
  - Preparation of the Patient before Surgery
    - Psychological Preparation
    - Surgical Preparation of the Skin
  - Preparation of the Patient on the Evening before
  - Preparation of the Patient on the Day of Surgery
  - Sending the Patient to Operating Room
- POSTOPERATIVE CARE
  - Type of Surgery
  - Preparation of Postanesthetics and Reception of the Patient
  - Care of Patient who is under the Effects of Anesthesia
  - Observation of the Patient in the Post-operative Period
    - The Main Points that Should be Observed are
  - Diet of the Patient
  - Postoperative Health Teaching
- SURGICAL DRESSING
  - Purposes
  - Types of Dressing
  - General Instructions
  - Equipments
    - Sterile
    - Unsterile
  - Procedure
    - Pre-preparation
  - Cleaning the Surgical Wound
  - Dressing the Wound
  - Aftercare (Follow-up Care)
- SURGICAL FOMENTATION
  - Purposes
  - Preliminary Assessments
  - Equipments
  - Preparation of the Patient
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- CHOLECYSTOGRAPHY
  - Purposes
  - Preparation of the Patient
  - Procedure
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- NASOGASTRIC INTUBATION
  - Purposes
  - Indications
    - Therapeutic
    - Diagnostic
  - Types of Tubes Used
  - Description of Rules Tube
  - General Instructions
  - Preliminary Assessments
  - Preparation of Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- ENTERAL/NASOGASTRIC FEEDING
  - Purposes
  - Advantages of Enteral Tube Feeding
  - Methods of Tube Feeding
  - General Instructions
  - Preliminary Assessment
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
    - A Clean Tray
  - Procedures
  - Postprocedure Care
  - Complications of Tube Feeding
- COLOSTOMY IRRIGATION
  - Purposes
  - Types of Colostomy
  - Solutions Used for Colostomy Irrigation
  - Preliminary Assessment
  - Preparation of the Patient and the Environment
  - Preparation of the Article
  - Procedures
  - Postprocedure Care
- RECTAL EXAMINATION
  - Purposes
  - Methods and Position
  - Preliminary Assessment
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
  - Complications
- BARIUM ENEMA
  - Purposes
  - Types
  - Principles
  - Preliminary Assessment
  - Preparation of the Patient
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- INSERTION OF SENGSTAKEN-BLAKEMORE TUBE BALLOON TAMPONADE
  - Definition
  - Purpose
  - Equipments
  - Procedure
    - Aftercare
- LIVER BIOPSY
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - Contraindications
  - Position
  - General Instructions
  - Preliminary Assessments
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Articles Needed
    - An Unsterile Tray
    - Sterile Tray
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- BARIUM MEAL
  - Description
  - Purposes
  - Principles
  - General Instructions
  - Types
  - Preliminary Assessment
  - Preparation of the Articles
    - A Tray Containing
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Procedure
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- SIGMOIDOSCOPY
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Principles
  - General Instruction
  - Preliminary Assessment
  - Preparation of the Article
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Procedure
    - Aftercare
- COLONOSCOPY
  - Definition
  - Purposes
    - Diagnostic Purposes
    - Therapeutic Purposes
  - Indications
  - Principles
  - General Instructions
  - Preliminary Assessment
  - Preparation of the Article
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Procedure
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- GASTRIC ANALYSIS
  - Introduction
  - Normal Findings
  - Purposes
  - Clinical Problems
    - Decreased Level
    - Elevated Level
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Procedures
    - Stimulation Test
  - Tubeless Gastric Analysis
  - Factors Affecting Diagnostic Results
- CHOLANGIOGRAPHY (INTRAVENOUS, PERCUTANEOUS, T-TUBE)
  - Description
  - Clinical Problems
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Procedures
    - Intravenous Cholangiography
    - Percutaneous cholangiography
  - T- TUBE Cholangiography
- ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY/ESOPHAGOGASTROSCOPY
  - Introduction
  - Purposes
  - Clinical Problems
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY
  - Introduction
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Procedure
    - Aftercare
  - Factor Affecting Diagnostic Results
  - Client Teaching
SECTION IV: MEDICAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES (SPECIALTY)
CHAPTER 28:MEDICAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES (SPECIALTY)
- NEBULIZATION THERAPY
  - Purposes
  - Types
    - Jet Medication Nebulizer
    - Ultrasonic Nebulizer
- POSTURAL DRAINAGE
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Equipments
  - General Instructions
  - Procedures
- ARTIFICIAL AIRWAY MANAGEMENT
  - Definition
  - Indications
  - Endotracheal Route of Insertion
    - Orotracheal
    - Nasotracheal
  - Tube Types
  - General Instructions
    - Physical Management
    - Psychological Management
  - Equipments
  - Preparation of the Patient and the Environment
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
    - Mechanical
    - Laryngeal and Tracheal
- ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Objective
  - Precautions
  - Client/Family Teaching
  - Procedure
- SUCTIONING TECHNIQUES
  - Types
  - Equipments
  - Procedure
    - Preparation Phase
    - Performance Phase
- ENDOTRACHEAL EXTUBATION
  - Objective
  - Client/Family Teaching
  - Precautions
  - Procedure
  - Related Nursing Care
- TRACHEOSTOMY CARE
  - Definition
    - Tracheostomy
  - Parts of the Tracheostomy Tube
  - Use of Tracheostomies
  - Indications for Tracheostomy
  - Complications of Tracheotomy
  - Care of the Tracheostomy Patient
  - Suctioning Procedure
  - Cleansing the Inner Cannula
- TRACHEOSTOMY SUCTIONING
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Equipments
  - Preliminary Assessments
  - Procedures
- WATER SEAL CHEST DRAINAGE
  - Indications
  - Objectives
  - Mechanism
  - Factors Affecting the Chest Drainage
  - Types of Chest Drainage
  - Commercially Prepared Disposal Drainage Systems
  - Equipment
    - Preparation of the Equipment
  - Implementation
  - Setting Up a Commercially Prepared Disposable System
  - Managing Closed Chest Underwater Seal Drainage
  - Assessment of Proper Functioning
  - Precautions to be Taken While Replacing the Chest Drainage Bottles
  - Chest Catheter Removal
  - Discharge Teaching
  - Common Problems and Suggested Actions
- CHEST X-RAY
  - Introduction
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - Normal Findings
  - Standard Positions Used
  - Portable Chest X-ray
  - Nursing Considerations
- SPUTUM CULTURE
  - Introduction
  - Purposes
  - General Instructions
  - Client Preparation
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
  - Documentation
- PULMONARY FUNCTION TEST
  - Introduction
  - Abnormal Findings
  - Description
  - Calculation of Total Lung Capacity
  - Calculation of Vital Capacity
  - Client Preparation
  - Procedure
  - Contraindications
- ULTRASONOGRAPHY
  - Introduction
  - Purposes
  - Preoperative Care
  - Procedures
- COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY
  - Introduction
  - Reference Values
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - General Instructions
  - Nursing Considerations
    - Nursing Care
  - Procedures
    - Nursing Care after the Procedure
  - Interfering Factors
  - Contraindications
- MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
  - Introduction
  - Indications
  - Advantages
    - Nursing Consideration
  - Contraindications
    - Interfering Factors
  - Client Preparation
  - Procedures
    - Postprocedural Care
- BRONCHOGRAPHY
  - Description
  - Normal Finds
  - Purpose
  - Indications
    - Client Preparation
  - Procedure
    - Preprocedural Care
    - Postprocedural Care
  - Contraindications
  - Factors Affecting Diagnostic Results
- ARTERIAL BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Normal Values
  - Indications
  - Interfering Factors
  - General Instructions
  - Client and Environment Preparation
  - Equipments Needed
  - Procedures
    - Postprocedural Care
  - Complications
- BRONCHOSCOPY
  - Definition
  - Purpose
    - Diagnostic Purpose
    - Therapeutic Purposes
  - Principle
  - General Instruction
  - Preliminary Assessment
    - Preparation of the Patient Unit
  - Articles Needed
    - A Sterile Tray
    - An Unsterile Tray
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Findings
  - Complications
- THORACENTESIS
  - Purposes
  - General Instructions
  - Preliminary Assessment
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
    - A Sterile Tray
    - An Unsterile/Clean Tray
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- LUNG BIOPSY
  - Introduction
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - Client Preparation
  - Procedures
  - Contraindications
  - Possible Complications
- PLEURAL BIOPSY
  - Introduction
    - Preliminary Assessment
  - Procedure
    - Postprocedure Care
  - Complications
- PULMONARY ANGIOGRAPHY
  - Indications
  - Client Preparation
  - Procedures
    - Postprocedural Care
  - Contraindications
    - Potential Complications
- LUNG SCAN/PULMONARY SCINTIPHOTOGRAPHY
  - Introduction
  - Abnormal Finding
  - Client Preparation
  - Procedure
  - Contraindication
  - Interfering Factors
- PULSE OXIMETRY
  - Introduction
  - Types of Oxygen Transducers
  - Nursing Consideration
- VENOUS OXYGEN SATURATION MONITORING
  - Introduction
  - Client Preparation
  - Procedures
  - Interfering Factors
  - Complications
    - Steps to Prevent Complication
- ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM
  - Purposes
  - Mechanism
  - Wave Patterns
  - Figure Measures in Seizure
  - Preliminary Assessment
    - Check
  - Preparation of the Patient and the Environment
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
  - Interpretation
  - Nursing Implications
- SKULL AND SPINAL X-RAY
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Purposes
    - Skull X-ray
    - Spine X-ray
  - General Instructions
  - Client Preparation
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY (BRAIN)
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - Preparation of the Client
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
  - Contraindications
  - Side-effects
  - Advantages
- MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Principles
  - General Instructions
  - Preparation of the Client
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Advantages
  - Disadvantages
  - Contraindications
- POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Principles
  - General Instructions
  - Preparation of the Client
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Advantages
  - Disadvantages
- DOPPLER IMAGING
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Indications
  - Purposes
  - Advantages
  - Types
  - Equipments
  - Special Consideration
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- EVOKED POTENTIALS
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - Types
  - Client Preparation
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY
  - Introduction
  - Reference Values
  - Interfering Factors
  - Indications
  - Client Preparations
  - Procedures
    - Nursing Care after the Procedure
- LUMBAR PUNCTURE
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - General Instructions
  - Special Considerations
  - Preparation of the Client
  - Equipments Needed
  - Procedures
    - Queckenstedt's Test (Lumbar Manometric Test)
    - Aftercare
  - Contraindications
  - Complications
- MYELOGRAPHY
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - General Instructions
    - Client Preparation
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- ELECTROMYOGRAPHY
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Purposes
    - Client Preparation
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - General Instructions
  - Client Preparation
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - Factors Interference
  - Special Instructions
  - Client Preparations
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Disadvantages
- CISTERNAL PUNCTURE
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Purposes
    - Client Preparation
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- CALORIC TESTING
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Interpretation
- TENSILON TEST (EDROPHONIUM BROMIDE)
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Equipments
  - Client Preparation
  - Preparation
    - Aftercare
- INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONIORING
  - Definition
  - Indications
  - Classification
  - General Instructions
  - Client and Environment Preparation
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
    - Interpreting ICP Waveforms
    - Aftercare
- CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW MONITORING
  - Definition
  - Indications
  - Client and Environment Preparation
  - Special Considerations
  - Equipments
  - Procedure
- CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW MONITORING
  - Introduction
  - Reference Values
  - Indications
  - Contraindication
  - Procedure
- GLASGOW COMA SCALE
  - Description of the Glasgow Coma Scale
  - Purposes
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
  - Interpretation
- CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE
  - Objectives
  - Indications
    - Normal CVP: 2–12 cm H2O
  - General Instructions
  - Preliminary Assessment
    - Check
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
  - Procedure
  - Complications
- CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
  - During Procedure
    - Postcatheterization Care
- TEMPORARY PACEMAKER THERAPY
  - Definition
  - Purpose
  - Equipment
  - Pretemporary
  - During Procedure
    - Post-temporary Pacemaker Care
- PERMANENT PACEMAKER IMPLANTATION
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Equipments
  - Pre-permanent Pacemaker Implantation Care
  - Post-Permanent Pacemaker Care
  - Patient Education
- TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Equipment
  - Pretransesophageal Echocardiogram Care
  - During Procedure
  - Post-transesophageal Echocardiogram Care
- CARDIAC DEFIBRILLATION
  - Definition
  - Purpose
  - Equipments
  - General Instructions
  - Procedures
  - Postdefibrillation Care
- ELECTROCARDIOGRAM
  - Invented by Enthovan in 1901
  - Normal Conduction System of the Heart
  - Purposes
  - Components of ECG
  - Electrocardiogram Graph Sheet
    - Heart Rate
    - Rhythm
  - Blocks
    - Axis
    - Negative
  - Electrolyte Disturbance in ECG
  - Myocardial Infarction
  - 12 Lead ECG
    - Lead Placement
    - Indications for 12 Lead ECG
  - Cause of Abnormal ECG Pattern
  - Preparation of the Patient
  - Preprocedural Care
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Nurses Responsibility
- HOLTER MONITORING
  - Introduction
  - Normal Findings
  - Components
    - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- PHONOCARDIOGRAM
  - Introduction
  - Purpose
  - Findings
  - Interfering Factors
- ROENTGENOGRAM
  - Introduction
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - Findings
  - Interfering Factors
    - Client Preparations
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- STRESS TESTING
  - Introduction
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - Procedures
  - Findings
    - Aftercare
    - Contraindications
- VECTORCARDIOGRAM
  - Introduction
  - Purpose
    - Client Preparation
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Findings
- MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
  - Introduction
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - Client Preparation
- POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY
  - Introduction
  - Indications
  - Client Preparation
  - During Test
- TELEMETRY MONITORING
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Components
  - Advantages
  - Disadvantages
  - Client Preparation
  - Procedures
- CARDIAC ENZYME TEST
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Client Preparation
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Enzyme Study Interpretation
- CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Types/Classification
  - Client Preparations
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Contraindications
- PULMONARY ARTERY WEDGE PRESSURE MONITORING
  - Introduction
  - Definitions
  - Purposes
  - Principles
  - Client and Equipment Preparations
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
  - Checking a Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure Reading
  - Removing the Catheter
  - Special Consideration
  - Complication
- INTRA-ARTERIAL PRESSURE MONITORING
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Formula
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - Components
  - Special Considerations
  - Client and Equipment Preparation
  - Equipments Needed
  - For Blood Sample Collection
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- SELECTIVE CARDIOGRAPHY
  - Definitions
  - Purposes
  - Client Preparations
  - Special Equipments Needed
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- ENDOMYOCARDIAL BIOPSY
  - Introduction
  - Purposes
  - Findings
  - Interfering Factors
  - Client Preparations
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- ERGONOVINE PROVOCATION TEST
  - Introduction
  - Purpose
  - Finding
  - Interfering Factors
  - Client Preparations
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- PERICARDIOCENTESIS
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Purpose
  - Findings
  - Indications
  - Client Preparations
  - Procedures
  - Specific Precautions
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
  - Abnormal Findings
  - Contraindications
- THALLIUM TESTING
  - Introduction
  - Purposes
  - Thallium-201
  - Findings
  - Client Preparations
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Complications
- TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPY
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Interfering Factors
  - Client Preparations
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Advantages
  - Complication
- PERITONEAL DIALYSIS
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Indications
  - Advantages
  - Principles
    - Diffusion
    - Osmosis
  - Types
  - Advantages
  - Continuous Cycle Peritoneal Dialysis
  - Advantage
  - Intermittent Peritoneal Dialysis
  - Contraindications
  - Preparation of the Patient and Environment
  - Equipments
    - Catheter Placement and Dialysis
    - For Dressing Changes
  - Procedures
  - Complications
- INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY
  - Purposes
  - Contraindications
  - Preparations of the Patient
  - Commonly Used Substances
    - Two Commonly Used Substances
    - Position of the Patient
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
  - Recording and Reporting
  - Complications
- HEMODIALYSIS
  - Definition
  - Indications
  - Equipment
  - Preparations of Equipment
    - Sites for Hemodialysis
  - Mechanism of Hemodialysis
  - Types of Dialyzers
  - Systems Used in Delivering Dialysate
  - Nursing Care
  - Role of Nurse in Care of Patient on Hemodialysis with Double Lumen Catheter
  - Postprocedure Care
  - Role of Nurse in Care of Patient on Hemodialysis with an Arteriovenous Fistula
  - Postprocedure care for Arteriovenous Fistula
  - Role of Nurse in Care of Patient on Hemodialysis with Arteriovenous Shunt
  - Postprocedure Care for Arteriovenous Shunt
  - Nursing Alert
  - Complications
- CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS
  - Advantages
  - Disadvantages
  - Equipments
    - Preparations of the Equipment
  - Major Steps of Continuous Peritoneal Dialysis
  - Role of Nurse in Infusing the Dialysate for CAPD
  - Steps to Clean the Peritoneal Catheter in Case of Patient with CAPD before Dialysis
    - Postprocedure Care for CAPD (Temporarily)
  - Complications
- CARE OF PATIENT WITH VENTILATOR
  - Definition
  - Purposes
  - Equipments
  - General Instructions
  - Procedure
  - Routine Nursing Care
    - Psychological Aspects of Patient's Care
- ARTHROGRAPHY
  - Introduction
  - Contraindications
  - Purposes
  - Abnormal Findings
  - Client Preparations
  - Procedures
    - Postprocedural Care
- ARTHROSCOPY
  - Introduction
  - Purposes
  - Abnormal Findings
  - Client Preparations
  - Factor Affecting the Diagnostic Result
  - Procedures
  - Postprocedural Care
  - Contraindications
SECTION V: INTENSIVE CARE UNIT PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 29:INTENSIVE CARE UNIT PROCEDURES
- ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT
- CARDIOVERSION AND DEFIBRILLATION
- PACEMAKERS
- ARTERIAL BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS
- MECHANICAL VENTILATION
- VENTILATOR SETTING UP
- PERCUTANEOUS SUPRAPUBIC PUNCTURE
- FINE-NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY/CYTOLOGY
SECTION VI: COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 30:COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING PROCEDURES
- HOME VISIT
  - Concepts of Home Visiting
  - Purposes of Home Visiting
  - Principles of Home Visiting
  - Steps in Home Visiting
  - Advantages
- BAG TECHNIQUES
  - Importance of Community Bag
  - Principles of Bag Technique
  - Articles Used in Community Bag
  - Steps of Procedure with Community Bag
- HOME HEALTH NURSING PROCEDURES
  - Principles to be Observed
- HANDWASHING
  - Purposes
  - Articles
  - Procedures
- TEMPERATURE TECHNIQUES
  - Principles
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
- MEASUREMENT OF HEIGHT AND WEIGHT
  - Principles
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
- UNDER FIVE ASSESSMENTS
  - Purposes
  - Symbol of Under Five Clinics
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
- IMMUNIZATION
  - Agents of Immunization
    - Vaccines
  - Steps of Vaccine Administration
- INJECTION TECHNIQUE
  - Purposes of Injection
  - Factors Favoring Absorption
  - Types of Injections
  - Principles Involved in Injection Techniques
  - General Instructions
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
  - Complications of Injections
- WOUND DRESSING AT HOME
  - Purposes
  - Principles
  - Advantages of Dressing
  - Types of Dressing
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
- BABY BATH
  - Purposes
  - Types of Bath
  - General Instructions
  - Equipments
  - Articles Near the Bedside
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- CORD CARE
  - Purposes
  - General Instructions
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
    - Aftercare
- ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY
  - Purposes
    - Formula for Oral Rehydration Solution
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
  - Action of Oral Rehydration Therapy
  - General Instructions
- PREPARING BLOOD SMEAR
  - Purposes
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
  - Blood Smear Preparation to Rule Out Malaria
- URINE TESTING
  - Purposes
  - Principles Involved
  - General Instructions
    - Equipments Needed for Sugar and Albumin Test
  - Procedures
- TEACHING IN THE HOME SETTING
  - Objectives of Health Education
  - Topics for Teaching at Home Setting
  - Principles of Health Education
  - Conducting Delivery at Home
  - Preparation of the Mother for Home Delivery
  - Equipments
  - Stages of Labor
  - Immediate Care of the Newborn
  - Instruction for the Family
- TEACHING DAIS AT HOME
  - Importance of Dais Training
  - Considerations in Dais Training
  - Objectives of Dais Training Program
  - Selection of Dais
  - Training of Dais
  - Procedure to Teach Care
  - Stipend
  - Certification
  - Hygiene Practices of Dais during Nursing Care
- SUPERVISION OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS
  - Principal Duties of a Supervisor (According to H Nissan)
  - Role of Supervisors
  - Types of Supervision
    - Direct Supervision
    - Indirect Method
  - Objectives of Supervision
  - Principles of Supervision
- PREPARATION OF SPUTUM SMEAR
  - Sputum
    - Purpose of Sputum Examination
  - General Instructions
  - Procedures
- EYE IRRIGATION
  - Purposes
  - Common Solutions
  - General Instructions
  - Equipments
  - Procedures
- TREATMENT OF SCABIES
  - Causes of Scabies
  - Clinical Manifestations
  - Community Standing Order/Management
SECTION VII: MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 31:MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PROCEDURES
- PERFORMING MENTAL STATUS EXAMINATION
- CONDUCTING PROCESS RECORDING
- ASSISTING WITH ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
- ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE PROCEDURES
  - Types of Admission
  - Discharge
    - Discharge of Voluntary Patient
- PSYCHIATRIC INVESTIGATION
  - Routine Tests
  - Diagnostic Procedures Used to Detect Altered Brain Function
- PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY
- PSYCHOSOCIAL THERAPIES
- RELAXATION TECHNIQUES
- NURSING MANAGEMENT OF STRESS
SECTION VIII: MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NURSING PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 32:MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NURSING PROCEDURES
- CERVICOGRAPHY (CERVIGRAM)
- CHORIONIC VILLUS BIOPSY
- HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY (HYSTEROSALPINGOGARM)
- HYSTEROSCOPY
- AMNIOTIC FLUID ANALYSIS
- COLPOSCOPY
- HEMOGLOBIN ESTIMATION
  - How to Measure Hemoglobin
  - Hemoglobin Color Scale
    - Follow these Instructions while Using the Scale
    - How to ‘Clean’ the Gloves
- CONTROLLED CORD TRACTION
- UTERINE MASSAGE
- EXAMINATION OF THE PLACENTA, MEMBRANES AND THE UMBILICAL CORD
- ULTRASOUND IN OBSTETRICS
- BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING
  - Palpatory Method
  - Auscultatory Method
- MEASUREMENT OF FUNDAL HEIGHT
  - Fundal Height Measurement
- ANTENATAL CARE
- INTRANATAL CARE
- POSTNATAL CARE
SECTION IX: CHILD HEALTH NURSING PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 33:CHILD HEALTH NURSING PROCEDURES
- NEONATAL CARE
- INFANT CARE
  - Physiological Developments
  - Role of Nurse in Infant Care
- CARE OF UNDER FIVES
- GROWTH CHART
- BABY-FRIENDLY HOSPITAL INITIATIVE
- RESTRAINTS
  - Purposes
  - Types of Restraints
- PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
- INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

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