Sara Phillips is lead nurse, Practice Education at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust. Mary Collins is Lecturer Practitioner at St Mary's NHS Trust.Lisa Dougherty is Nurse Consultant, Intravenous Therapy, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

"It provides a comprehensive overview of practice and underlying theory, integrated with details of patient experience." (Independent Nurse, 18 July 2011)

• Foreword viContributors viiiIntroduction 1Sarah Phillips and Mary Collins1 Legal and Professional Issues 5Lorraine Hyde2 The Learning Experience 16Sarah Phillips3 Anatomy and Physiology 44Mary Collins4 Selection of Equipment 68Mirjana Dojcinovska5 Vein Selection 91Barbara Witt6 Infection Control and Risk Management 108Sarah Hart7 Procedures for Venepuncture and Cannulation 131Annie de Verteuil8 Complications 175Wendy Morris9 Introduction to Routine Blood Tests, Normal Values and Relevance to Clinical Practice 223Andrea Blay10 Patient’s Perspective 281Lisa Dougherty Webliography 297Glossary 298Index 304

Sara Phillips is lead nurse, Practice Education at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust. Mary Collins is Lecturer Practitioner at St Mary's NHS Trust.Lisa Dougherty is Nurse Consultant, Intravenous Therapy, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

"It provides a comprehensive overview of practice and underlying theory, integrated with details of patient experience." (Independent Nurse, 18 July 2011)

• Foreword viContributors viiiIntroduction 1Sarah Phillips and Mary Collins1 Legal and Professional Issues 5Lorraine Hyde2 The Learning Experience 16Sarah Phillips3 Anatomy and Physiology 44Mary Collins4 Selection of Equipment 68Mirjana Dojcinovska5 Vein Selection 91Barbara Witt6 Infection Control and Risk Management 108Sarah Hart7 Procedures for Venepuncture and Cannulation 131Annie de Verteuil8 Complications 175Wendy Morris9 Introduction to Routine Blood Tests, Normal Values and Relevance to Clinical Practice 223Andrea Blay10 Patient’s Perspective 281Lisa Dougherty Webliography 297Glossary 298Index 304

Sara Phillips is lead nurse, Practice Education at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust. Mary Collins is Lecturer Practitioner at St Mary's NHS Trust.Lisa Dougherty is Nurse Consultant, Intravenous Therapy, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

"It provides a comprehensive overview of practice and underlying theory, integrated with details of patient experience." (Independent Nurse, 18 July 2011)

• Foreword viContributors viiiIntroduction 1Sarah Phillips and Mary Collins1 Legal and Professional Issues 5Lorraine Hyde2 The Learning Experience 16Sarah Phillips3 Anatomy and Physiology 44Mary Collins4 Selection of Equipment 68Mirjana Dojcinovska5 Vein Selection 91Barbara Witt6 Infection Control and Risk Management 108Sarah Hart7 Procedures for Venepuncture and Cannulation 131Annie de Verteuil8 Complications 175Wendy Morris9 Introduction to Routine Blood Tests, Normal Values and Relevance to Clinical Practice 223Andrea Blay10 Patient’s Perspective 281Lisa Dougherty Webliography 297Glossary 298Index 304