Clinical Confidence: The Complete Nursing Handbook — Clinical Judgment, Assessment, Lab Values, Pharmacology and Dosage Calculation, with 60 Practice Questions and Rationales - Softcover

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Nursing school teaches you facts. Your first shift asks you to make decisions.

This is the handbook that bridges the gap. It covers the clinical judgment, prioritization and assessment skills that decide whether you catch a deterioration at hour two or hour six — then gives you the reference material you actually reach for mid-shift.

INSIDE:

• Clinical judgment, the priority ladder, delegation and scope of practice
• Head-to-toe and focused assessment, plus a full chapter of red flags that mean call now
• Every lab value with the nursing action attached — and ABGs in four steps, with worked examples
• Drug classes: what they do, what you monitor, what you hold for, what you teach
• Dosage calculation worked line by line, with a practice set and answers
• IV therapy, fluids and blood transfusion, including the reaction protocol
• Infection control, isolation precautions, core skills, patient safety and emergencies
• Condition cards across med-surg, maternal-newborn, pediatrics, mental health and older adult care
• 60 practice questions with a rationale for every answer
• Appendices: lab values card, do-not-use abbreviations, formulas, three report sheets, a 30-day study plan, and a full source list

Thirty chapters, organized the way a nurse moves through a shift — not the way a curriculum is indexed.

WRITTEN OPENLY. Every source is listed in Appendix F — the American Nurses Association, NCSBN, CDC, WHO, ISMP, the American Heart Association and others — so you can verify anything yourself.

AN EDUCATIONAL STUDY AND REFERENCE AID, NOT A CLINICAL PROTOCOL. Drug doses are deliberately excluded: dosing is a prescriber decision. Always follow your facility's policy and your own scope of practice.

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