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The newly revised and updated Fifth Edition of this popular and widely used reference is a start-to-finish guide for more than 400 basic to advanced nursing procedures. It provides step-by-step instructions for each procedure, explains how to use and troubleshoot equipment, and presents key information on rationales, cautions, complications, patient teaching, and documentation. The user-friendly format includes checklists, quick-scanning tables, logos that flag essential information, and more than 500 illustrations and photographs of equipment and techniques. This edition features a new full-color design, scores of new illustrations, 26 important new procedures,new to the book, evidence-based information, and reference citations for every procedure.