Gabby Koutoukidis - Tabbners Nursing Care: Theory and Practice

Tabbners Nursing Care

Theory and Practice

Sixth Edition

Gabrielle Koutoukidis, Dip App Sci (Nurs), BNurs (Mid), Adv Dip Nurs (Ed), MPH, Dip Business, Voc Grad Cert Business (Transformational Management), MRCNA

Head of Strategic & Business Development, Faculty of Health Science & Community Studies, Holmesglen Institute, Melbourne, Victoria

Kate Stainton, Dip App Sci (Nurs), BN (Mid), Grad Dip Nurs (Education), MA Hlth Sc (Nurs)

Clinical Nurse Specialist, Newcastle Private Hospital, Newcastle, New South Wales

Jodie Hughson, MPH, Grad Cert Health Promotion, RN

Community Services Manager, Metro South, Anglicare Southern Queensland, Queensland

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Koutoukidis, Gabrielle.

Tabbners nursing care : theory and practice / Gabrielle Koutoukidis ; Kate Stainton ; Jodie Hughson.

6th ed.

9780729541145 (pbk.)

Includes index.

Nursing Textbooks.

Stainton, Kate.

Hughson, Jodie.

610.73

Publisher: Libby Houston

Developmental Editors: Elizabeth Coady and Jane Coulcher

Project Coordinator: Natalie Hamad

Edited by Sybil Kesteven

Proofread by Tim Learner

Picture research by Karen Forsythe

Illustrators: Trina McDonald and Rod McLean

Cover and internal design by George Creative

Index by Robert Swanson

Typeset by Midland Typesetters, Australia

Printed in China by China Translation and Printing Services

Contributors

The publisher and editors would like to thank all past and present contributors and reviewers.

Louise Alexander, BNur, Postgrad Cert (Psych Nurs), PGC (Education), MEd (PET)

Lecturer, Bachelor of Nursing (Mental Health), Holmesglen Institute, Victoria, Australia

Jacqui Allen, RN, BA (Hons), MPsych

Lecturer in Nursing, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia

Christine Baker, MNsg, Grad Dip Ad & Voc Ed, BHlthSc, Dip VET, Cert IV TAE, Cert Sexual Health, MRNCA

Senior Educator, Nursing Programs, Swinburne University, Victoria, Australia

Carol Barbeler, RN, BNur (Post-reg), M Appl Gerontol, Dip Training & Assessment

Educator, Nursing and Aged Care, GippsTAFE, Victoria, Australia

Lucinda Brown, RN, MPH, Grad Dip Health Sci

Lecturer, Deakin University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Victoria, Australia

Sue Brown, BHlthSc, MHlthSc, GCert (TT) (Vic), DN (La Trobe), RN

Nurse Consultant: Life in Place

Amy Dearsley, RN/RM

Educational specialist, Laerdal Australia

Carmel Duff, RN, Grad Dip Adv Nurs (Education)

Lecturer in Nursing, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Leah East, BN, RN (Hons), PhD

School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

John P. Elias, BSc (Hons), PhD

Human Bioscience Lecturer, Holmesglen Bachelor of Nursing, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Andree Gamble, RN, BN, Postgrad Dip Adv Clin Nurs (Child Health), Postgrad Cert Prof Educ & Training, Grad Cert Clin Simulation, M Nurs Sci, Cert IV TAA, Dip Bus

Lecturer, Bachelor of Nursing, Holmesglen, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Michelle Hall, BN, Grad Cert (Health Prof Ed), Cert IV (TAE)

Teacher, Nursing, Health Science and Biotechnology Department, Holmesglen, Melbourne, Victoria

Marguerite Hoiby, RSCN, RN, Cert Spinal Injuries & Rehab Nursing, Cert Op Room Nursing, Grad Dip Educ Admin, Grad Dip Bus

Quality & Risk Manager, Linacre Private Hospital, Victoria, Australia

Lead Auditor Quality Management Systems (ISO) & Reproductive Technology Accreditation Committee (RTAC)

British Standards International Aged Care Assessor

Aged Care Accreditation Standards & Accreditation Australian Sessional Trainer, Skills Training Australia, Knox, Victoria, Australia

Finbar Hopkins, RN, RMN, RM, BA Sciences (Nurs), Grad Dip (Womens Health), MA

Lecturer in Nursing, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Greer Hosking, RN, ONC, BEd, Cert IV Training and Assessment

Jodie Hughson, MPH, Grad Cert Health Promotion, RN

Community Services Manager, Metro South, Anglicare Southern Queensland, Australia

Jennifer Jennings, RN, BN, Grad Dip (Adv Clin Practice), GCHPE, Grad Cert Health Prof Educ, GCCS, Grad Cert Clinical Simulation

Yangama Jokwiro, BSc (NS), MSc (Physiology)

Bioscience Lecturer, Holmesglen Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Gabrielle Koutoukidis, Dip App Sci (Nurs), BNurs (Mid), Adv Dip Nurs (Ed), MPH, Dip Business, Voc Grad Cert Bus (Transformational Management), MRCNA

Head of Strategic & Business Development, Faculty of Health Science & Community Studies, Holmesglen Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Susan Lanyon, RN, CCRN, Grad Dip Midwifery, BT/BA

Teacher of Nursing, Holmesglen Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Teresa Lewis, RN, Cert Intensive Care Nurs (Post-reg), Cert Infect Control Nurs (Post-reg)

Infection Prevention and Control Manager, Newcastle Private Hospital, New South Wales, Australia

Member Australasian College of Infection Prevention & Control (ACIPC) [previously Australian Infection Control Association (AICA)]

Suzanne McArthur, RN, BEd (La Trobe), Postgrad Dip Crit Care Nurs (Austin), Cert IV TAA

Nursing Course Coordinator; Diploma of Nursing, Advance TAFE, Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia

Member, Australian Wound Management Association

Member, Moderation Delivery Committee Certificate IV/Diploma in Nursing, Victoria, Australia

Gillianne Meek, RN, BSc (Hons), MN

Team Leader, Waiariki Institute of Technology, Rotorua, New Zealand

Anne Moates, RN, Midwife, MCHN, M Pub Health, MEd, B AppSci (Nurs), Grad Dip Adv Nurs (Child, Family and Community Nursing), Grad Dip Adv Nurs (Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing), Grad Cert Nurs (Educ)

Senior Educator, Health and Nursing, Chisholm Institute, Victoria, Australia

Shyamala Munusamy, BHSc (Nursing), Adv Dip Nurs (Neuroscience), Dip Nurs (Singapore), Cert IV TAA

Goetz Ottman, PhD

Lead Researcher, Uniting Care Community Options/Deakin University Research Partnership, Victoria, Australia