Acute Care for Nurses - Claire Boyd

Acute Care for Nurses

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Buch | Softcover
336 Seiten
2023
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-119-88245-9 (ISBN)
20,54 inkl. MwSt
A practical handbook to boost your confidence with assessment techniques and key clinical skills when administering effective acute care

This helpful revision tool was developed to assist healthcare workers in the field of acute care, at a time when healthcare professionals have been under more pressure than ever before. In »Acute Care for Nurses«, readers will find:
  • A revision of medicines management formulas, plus advanced formulas seen in a clinical setting, with chapters on sepsis and conflict resolution
  • Assessment techniques and the individual components of the ABCDE assessment, covering vital signs clinical observation at a superficial level to more in-depth and clinical actions
  • Higher skills, such as caring for the ventilated patient and fluid resuscitation in adults and children, and subcutaneous fluid hydration
  • Critical care simulation and need-to-know medical abbreviations, plus three helpful appendices containing tool kits and charts

»Acute Care for Nurses« is a must-have resource for nursing students, including nursing associates, registered nurses and midwives, assistant practitioners and senior health care assistants, return to practice nurses, overseas nurses and anyone else requiring acute clinical skills and assessment techniques.

Claire Boyd, Practice Development Trainer, North Bristol NHS Trust

Preface

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Part 1

Chapter 1 Diagnostic tests and advanced formulae

Chapter 2 Sepsis

Chapter 3 Conflict Resolution

Chapter 4 Patient Assessment

Chapter 5 SBAR Communication

Part 2

Chapter 6 Airway

Chapter 7 Breathing

Chapter 8 Circulation

Chapter 9 Disability

Chapter 10 Exposure

Part 3

Chapter 11 Emergency fluid management in adults

Chapter 12 Treating Paediatric Dehydration

Chapter 13 Hypodermoclysis  

Chapter 14 Central Lines

Chapter 15 Invasive and Non-Invasive Ventilation (CPAP/BIPAP)

Part 4

Chapter 16  Critical care simulation

Chapter 17 Medical Abbreviations

Chapter 18   Answers to activities questions

Appendix 1 NEWS II Observation Chart

Appendix 2 Sepsis tool kit

Appendix 3 Fluid prescription chart

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 145 x 218 mm
Gewicht 468 g
Einbandart kartoniert
Themenwelt Pflege Fachpflege Anästhesie / Intensivmedizin
ISBN-10 1-119-88245-1 / 1119882451
ISBN-13 978-1-119-88245-9 / 9781119882459
Zustand Neuware
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