Emergency Nursing made Incredibly Easy!
Emergency Nursing made Incredibly Easy! covers emergency care basics including patient assessment and triage, trauma, disease crises, and patient and family communication, as well as legal issues such as handling evidence and documentation and holistic issues such as pain and end-of-life care.
Features:
- Charts, graphs, and illustrations that make concepts easy to understand
- Chapters that break body systems and their disorders into manageable chunks
- Key signs and symptoms and diagnostic tests
- Assessment - from auscultation to palpation, the ins and outs of checking patients
- Common disorders and their treatments - top problems you'll see coming through the emergency department doors
- Triage basics and holistic care issues - what you need to know
- Memory joggers make tough concepts easy to remember
- Ages and stages identifies areas where age could impact care
- Stay on the ball outlines complications and risk factors
- Education edge offers patient education pointers
Contents
- Emergency Department Basics
- Holistic Care
- Neurologic Emergencies
- Cardiac Emergencies
- Respiratory Emergencies
- Gastrointestinal Emergencies
- Musculoskeletal Emergencies and Wound Management
- Genitourinary and Gynecologic Emergencies
- Maxillofacial and Ocular Emergencies
- Environmental Emergencies
- Schock and Multisystem Trauma
Glossary
Index
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