From the publishers of the market–leading at a Glance series comes a wide–ranging and succinct overview of the key concepts of emergency care. Emergency Nursing at a Glance uses the unique and highly visual at a Glance format to convey vital information quickly and efficiently, ensuring that nursing students have access to all the important topics they need for an emergency care placement. This highly visual, easy–to–read guide is the ideal companion for anyone entering fields involving urgent or unscheduled care. Includes all aspects of emergency care, including trauma, minor injury, triage processes, patient assessment, common emergency presentations, as well as legal, ethical and professional issues. Covers care of adults, children, and those with learning disabilities and mental health conditions Presented in the bestselling at a Glance format, with superb illustrations and a concise approach Emergency Nursing at a Glance is an invaluable resource for nursing students, newly qualified nurses and other healthcare professionals working in emergency departments, urgent care centres, minor injury units and walk–in centres. INDICE: 1. The context of emergency nursing .Part 1: Initial patient assessment .2. Pre–hospital care .3. Triage .4. ABCDE approach .5. Track and trigger systems .6. Pain .Part 2: Airway and breathing .7. Airway assessment and management .8. Assessment of breathing .9. Oxygen therapy .10. Respiratory conditions .Part 3: Circulation .11. Assessment of circulation .12. Circulation interventions .13. Shock .14. 12–lead ECG .15. Cardiac arrhythmias .16. Acute coronary syndromes .17. Heart failure .18. Advanced life support .Part 4: Disability .19. Assessment of neurological function .20. The unconscious patient .21. Stroke .22. Seizures .23. Headache .Part 5: Emergency presentations and conditions .24. Abdominal pain .25. Gastrointestinal bleed .26. Genitourinary conditions .27. Acute kidney injury .28. Diabetic emergencies .29. Obstetrics and gynaecology .Part 6: Poisoning and overdose .30. Poisoning: Assessment and management .31. Poisoning: Prescription and non–prescription drugs .32. Poisoning: Other substances .33. Alcohol misuse .Part 7: Infectious diseases .34. Infectious diseases .35. Notifiable diseases .36. Sexually transmitted infections .Part 8: Vulnerable patient groups .37. Domestic abuse .38. Sexual assault .39. The mental health patient in the ED .40. Risk assessment, self–harm and suicide .41. Common mental health problems .42. The patient with dementia .43. The patient with an intellectual disability .Part 9: Children in the emergency department .44. Children in the ED .45. Safeguarding children .46. Recognising the sick child .47. Common illnesses in children .48. Paediatric advanced life support .Part 10: Minor injuries and conditions .49. Minor injuries in children .50. Lower limb injuries .51. Upper limb injuries .52. Wounds .53. Eye conditions .54. Ear, nose and throat conditions .Part 11: Trauma .55. Trauma in context .56. Primary survey .57. Head and spinal trauma .58. Chest trauma .59. Limb trauma .60. Abdominal and pelvic trauma .61. Massive haemorrhage .62. Burns .63. Special circumstances in trauma .64. Trauma in children .65. Major incident .Part 12: Patient transfer and end–of–life care .66. Patient transfer .67. End–of–life care
- ISBN: 978-1-118-86767-9
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 184
- Fecha Publicación: 25/03/2016
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés