This pocket sized quick-reference guide is not rivalled by anything else on the market. As a support text, Reid-Searl’s Nursing Student’s Clinical Survival Guide assists students with tips to competently conduct clinical skills for safe and person-centred care in clinical settings..

Whether used individually across students’ education and into early practice or as a tool to compliment more comprehensive texts.

24-HOUR CLOCK

• Protecting yourself and the patient
• Standard precautions
• Additional precautions
• Hand hygiene
• Personal protective equipment (ppe)
• Body fluids exposure
• Moving patients safely
• Falls prevention
• Venous thromboembolism (vte) prevention
• Signs of stroke

MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION

• Five rights and more
• Tips in preventing medication errors
• Safety tips with oral medications
• Safety tips with injections
• Medication administration and student nurses
• Abbreviations used in medication administration
• Checks for medications and intravenous fluids at shift changeover
• Medication orders
• Metric system and symbols
• Drug calculations/formulas
• Drug name endings and related information
• Drugs and antidotes

OXYGEN CONCENTRATION DELIVERY FLUID BALANCE

• Measurements useful for fluid balance charts
• Tips with fluid balance charts
• Classification of urine output
• Types of iv fluids
• Drip rates
• Intravenous site checks
• Body weight method for calculating daily maintenance fluids

VITAL SIGNS

• Vital signs: normal ranges
• Early warning systems

QUICK HEAD-TO-TOE ASSESSMENT PAIN ASSESSMENT

• Common sites of referred pain from various body organs

LANDMARKS TO IDENTIFY ABDOMINAL AREAS

• The nine abdominal regions
• The four abdominal quadrants

BLOOD VALUES

NORMAL VALUES IN A URINALYSIS

MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT

RESUSCITATION

• Cardiac rhythms
• Recognition of deterioration
• CPR
• Basic life support flow chart
• Paediatric cardiopulmonary arrest flow chart
• Adult cardiorespiratory arrest flow chart
• Choking flow chart

WOUND CARE

• Factors that inhibit healing
• Wound types
• Phases of wound healing
• Wound assessment
• Pressure injuries
• Stages of pressure injuries
• Pressure injury risk assessment tools
• Pressure injury prevention
• Wound dressings
• Some wound-care products
• Calculation of ankle/brachial pressure index (abpi)
• Skin tears

NURSING PROCESS DOCUMENTATION

• Practice guidelines
• Writing with soapie

Clinical HANDOVER

• ISBAR
• Tips for verbal shift-to-shift handovers for students

CHECKLIST TO BE COMPLETED AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH SHIFT

USEFUL WEBSITES

GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS