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This guide helps nurses master peripheral and central I.V. therapy, infusion pumps and controllers, chemotherapeutic infusions, parenteral nutrition, and more. For each therapy, readers find indications, contraindications, advantages and disadvantages, patient selection criteria, equipment, implementation, complications, and proper documentation. Emphasis is placed on patient and caregiver teaching. Tips explain how to skillfully operate equipment and control infection. More than 100 illustrations make clinical procedures easier. I.V. equipment updates identify new home infusion devices.