A point-of-care procedure guide to help your nurses save time and provide safer and more effective care.

To deliver the safest, most effective patient care possible, Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills provides real-time access to step-by-step guides for over 1,300 evidence-based procedures and skills in a variety of specialty settings. You get the information you need when and where you need it from a source you can trust. Written by nurses for nurses, information includes:

• Required equipment
• Quick lists to follow
• Patient instructions
• Complications to consider
• Skills checklist
• Competency tests
• Hundreds of video clips, diagrams and full-color images

What Lippincott's Nursing Procedures And Skills Can Do For You  

• Improve patient outcomes, reduce errors, and promote consistent standardized care across your organization
• Promote effective and consistent communication related to patient safety and quality care
• Empower your nurses with the knowledge and confidence to make clinical decisions and facilitate delivery of care in unfamiliar settings or situations
• Maintain compliance with current national guidelines and alignment with Joint Commission standards and Magnet Recognition Program components
• Increase the amount of time devoted to delivering direct patient care
• Eliminate time wasted on unreliable Internet searches or tracking down protocols

Key Features

• Clinical procedure and skills online tutorial available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Content is continually updated by clinical nurses to reflect the most current evidence and practice standards
• Powerful search capability by keyword or category for more than 3,000 entries and 1,300 procedures and skills
• Coverage of medical/surgical, critical care, maternal-neonatal, pediatric, psychiatric, emergency, and perioperative specialties
• Evidence-based references ranked by Melnyk’s Rating System for the Hierarchy of Evidence
• Links to more in-depth information such as abstracts, full text articles, and research from such sources as PubMed and your organization's library
• Customizable by adding notes or personalized checklists for your own organization's protocols, procedures, drug updates and other important information