Critical Care Placements (eBook)

A Pocket Guide

Rachel Dodd, Rachel Parkinson, Ruth Magowan (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
100 Seiten
Scion Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-908625-82-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A pocket-sized guide to help nursing students prepare for their critical care placement.



Clinical placements can be intimidating to the unprepared. This pocket guide is designed to make critical care health placements less stressful and to help student nurses get the most out of their time in the critical care setting.

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A pocket-sized guide to help nursing students prepare for their critical care placement.Critical care placements can be daunting you ll be working in a demanding setting and caring for people when they are critically ill and at their most vulnerable. There is a large amount of new information to take in, and newly learned nursing theory to put into practice. This pocket guide is designed to make your placement a less stressful and more rewarding learning experience.From advanced life support to urinalysis, via myocardial infarction, it s full of practical detail, hints and tips.Written by current nursing students and edited by a senior lecturer this guidance is really produced with you in mind.Pocket-sized format carry it with you at all times.Space to make your own notes be it new information, unfamiliar terminology, or just the names of your new colleaguesReduce your stress and make the most of your placement by having this book to hand from the start.Pocket Guides is a series of handy, pocket-sized books designed to help students make the most of their practice learning experiences.

Inhalt

Introduction

1.      How to use this book

2.      Person-centred care

Advanced Life Support and assessments

3.      Advanced Life Support

3.1 Cardiac arrest definition; 3.2 Basic Life Support; 3.3 Management of cardiac arrest; 3.4 Correct placement of defibrillation pads; 3.5 Four Hs and four Ts; 3.6 Effective CPR



4.      Assessments

4.1 ABCDE assessment; 4.2 Trauma assessment



Common conditions in critical care

5.      Shock

5.1 Types of shock; 5.2 Stages of shock



6.      Sepsis

6.1 Signs and symptoms of sepsis; 6.2 Treatment of sepsis



7.      Cardiac emergencies

7.1 Angina; 7.2 Myocardial infarction (MI)



8.      Stroke

8.1 Signs and symptoms of stroke; 8.2 Assessment of stroke; 8.3 Treatment of stroke



9.      Fractures

9.1 Types of fracture; 9.2 Signs and symptoms of fracture; 9.3 Assessment of fracture; 9.4 Treatment of fracture



Toolkit

10.  SBAR handover



11.  Tests

11.1 Understanding ABGs



12.  GCS and pupil observations

12.1 GCS, 12.2 Pupil observations



13.  Urinalysis

13.1 Methods of collecting urine; 13.2 Physical appearance; 13.3 Urine analysis



14.  ECG types, diagram and reading a rhythm strip

14.1 Why use cardiac monitoring?; 14.2 3-lead ECG;14.3 5-lead ECG; 14.4 12-lead ECG; 14.5 Reading a rhythm strip;14.6 Worked example



15.  Shockable and non-shockable rhythms

15.1 Shockable rhythms; 15.2 Non-shockable rhythms



16.  Pain

16.1 Assessment of pain; 16.2 Managing pain



17.  Common groups of medications



18.  Difficult conversations

19.  Top tips

Resources

20.  Quick references



21.  Further reading

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2020
• Verlagsort: Banbury
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Ausbildung / Prüfung
• Themenwelt: Pflege ► Fachpflege ► Anästhesie / Intensivmedizin
• Schlagworte: critical care, critical care nursing, placement, placement learning, pocket guide
• ISBN-10: 1-908625-82-1 / 1908625821
• ISBN-13: 978-1-908625-82-3 / 9781908625823