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Avoiding Common Nursing Errors

Publication Year: 2009
Edition: 1st Ed.
Authors/Editor: Garber, Jeannie Scruggs; Gross, Monty; Slonim, Anthony D.; Marcucci, Lisa
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
ISBN: 978-1-605-47087-0
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This handbook succinctly describes over 500 common errors made by nurses and offers practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding these errors

Coverage in this quick-reference handbook includes the entire scope of nursing practice—administration, medications, process of care, behavioral and psychiatric, cardiology, critical care, endocrine, gastroenterology and nutrition, hematology-oncology, infectious diseases, nephrology, neurology, pulmonary, preoperative, operative, and postoperative care, emergency nursing, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatric nursing.

Each error is described in a quick-reading one-page entry that includes a brief clinical scenario and tips on how to avoid or resolve the problem. Illustrations are included where appropriate.

  • Platform:
    Ovid
  • Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
  • Product Type: Book
  • Author/Editor: Garber, Jeannie Scruggs; Gross, Monty; Slonim, Anthony D.; Marcucci, Lisa
  • ISBN: 978-1-605-47087-0
  • Specialty:
    General Interest Nursing
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  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1st Ed.
  • Pages: 576
  • Illustrations: 24
  • Year: 2009

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