Real Nursing Skills: Critical Care Nursing Skills

For Critical Care Nursing Course, Medical-Surgical Nursing Course or Skills Laboratory Course or Practicum in undergraduate nursing programs.

Prentice Hall's Real Nursing Skills series offers students the complete foundation for competency in performing clinical nursing skills. The volumes in this series consist of interactive CD-ROMs with comprehensive procedures and rationales demonstrated in hundreds of realistic video clips, animations, illustrations, and photographs.

Get 25 critical care nursing skills—Skills sets include Crisis Management, Elimination Management, Respiratory Management, Neurological Management, and Tissue Perfusion Management on CD-ROM (total 2 CD-ROMs).

These skills include:

• Demonstrates difficult-to-visualize skills, such as how to correctly tie a quick-release knot when applying restraints and the technique differences between males and females when inserting and maintaining an indwelling catheter.

• Users hear first-hand the importance of therapeutic communication to aid in the patient's comfort during the skill.

• Users watch a real person's reactions to uncomfortable skills, such as the client's tears and gag reflex during the insertion of a nasogastric tube.

• Users experiencing the daily challenges nurses face in real clinical settings, such as repositioning large patients and working while pregnant, to help them learn problem-solving skills.

For each skill, students will review:

• Purpose

• Equipment

• Preparation

• Procedure

• Post-Procedure

• Expected Outcomes

• Documentation

• Variation (if applicable)

This is the only skills series designed to help students visualize how to perform clinical nursing skills and understanding the concepts and rationales for each skill. Throughout the videos, students will experience the real-life aspects of: therapeutic communication between the nurse and the client, the client's reaction to invasive skills, and cultural, gender, and age diversity among nurses and clients.

System Requirements:
Macintosh

• Mac OS 9.X , OSX, (in classic mode)

• 64 MB free RAM minimum

• 4X CD-ROM or Higher

Windows

• Intel Pentium processor- min 400MH

• 64MB RAM (128MB for Windows XP and 2000)

• Sound card,

• Speakers

• 12X CD-ROM drive or higher