The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures - Lisa Dougherty [7]
References
NHSE (1999) Clinical Governance: Quality in the New NHS. Department of Health, London.
Rycroft-Malone, J. et al. (2004) What counts as evidence in evidence based practice? J Adv Nurs, 47(1), 81–90.
Sackett, D.L., Strauss, S.E. and Richardson, W.S. (2000) Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM, 2nd edn. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh.
Lisa Dougherty
Sara Lister
Quick reference to the procedure guidelines
Anaesthesia: caring for patient in anaesthetic room
Antiembolic stockings: assessment, fitting and wearing
Aseptic technique, for example, changing a wound dressing
Assessment and education of patients prior to surgery
Bed bathing a patient
Blood component administration
Blood components: collection and delivery to the clinical area
Blood cultures: peripheral (winged device collection method)
Blood glucose monitoring
Blood pressure measurement (manual)
Blood sampling: antimicrobial drug assay
Blood sampling: pretransfusion
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Care of the patient during bladder irrigation
Commencing bladder irrigation
Commode use: assisting a patient
Contact lens removal: hard lenses
Contact lens removal: soft lenses
Discharge planning
Donning a sterile gown and gloves: closed technique
Donning sterile gloves: open technique
Dressing a wound
Electrocardiogram
Enema administration
Enteral feeding tubes: administration of feed
Enteral feeding tubes: administration of medication
Eye irrigation
Eye swabbing
Faecal sampling
Feeding an adult patient
Fluid input: measurement
Fluid output: measuring output from drains
Fluid output: monitoring output from bowels
Fluid output: monitoring output from gastric outlets, nasogastric tubes, gastrostomy
Fluid output: monitoring output from stoma sites
Fluid output: monitoring/measuring output if the patient is catheterized
Fluid output: monitoring/measuring output if the patient is not catheterized
Hand decontamination using alcohol handrub
Handwashing
Humidification for respiratory therapy
Last Offices
Measuring the weight and height of the patient
Medication: administration by inhalation using a metered dose inhaler
Medication: administration by inhalation using a nebulizer
Medication: continuous infusion of intravenous drugs
Medication: controlled drug administration
Medication: ear drop administration
Medication: eye administration
Medication: injection (bolus or push) of intravenous drugs
Medication: injections administration
Medication: intermittent infusion of intravenous drugs
Medication: intradermal injection
Medication: intramuscular injection
Medication: nasal drop administration
Medication: oral drug administration
Medication: self-administration
Medication: single-dose ampoule: powder preparation
Medication: single-dose ampoule: solution preparation
Medication: subcutaneous injection
Medication: topical applications
Medication: transdermal applications
Medication: vaginal administration
Mouth care
Moving from sitting to standing: assisting the patient
Multidose vial: powder preparation, using a venting needle
Multidose vial: powder preparation, using equilibrium method
Nasogastric intubation with tubes using an introducer
Nasogastric intubation with tubes without using an introducer, for example, a Ryle’s tube
Negative pressure wound therapy
Neurological observations and assessment
Operating theatre procedure
Oxygen therapy
Pain assessment chart: chronic pain recording
Patients in PACU
Peak flow reading using a manual peak flow meter
Penile sheath application
Positioning the neurological patient with tonal problems
Positioning the patient to maximize V/Q matching for widespread pathology in a self-ventilating patient
Positioning the patient to maximize