Acute Care for Nurses (eBook)
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-88246-6 (ISBN)
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 superficial and more in-depth levels, 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 healthcare assistants, return to practice nurses, overseas nurses and anyone else requiring acute clinical skills and assessment techniques.
Claire Boyd is Practice Development Trainer in the Learning and Research Centre at North Bristol Healthcare Trust, Bristol, UK. She develops, designs, delivers and evaluates learning programmes, and organises the transition training programme for student nurses and support of these nurses in clinical areas.
Acute Care for Nurses 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 superficial and more in-depth levels, 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 healthcare assistants, return to practice nurses, overseas nurses and anyone else requiring acute clinical skills and assessment techniques.
Claire Boyd is Practice Development Trainer in the Learning and Research Centre at North Bristol Healthcare Trust, Bristol, UK. She develops, designs, delivers and evaluates learning programmes, and organises the transition training programme for student nurses and support of these nurses in clinical areas.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.1.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Student Survival Skills |
| Student Survival Skills | Student Survival Skills |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege |
| Schlagworte | abcde assessment • Acute Care • Acute, Critical & Emergency Care • Acute, Critical & Emergency Care • Akutmedizin • Akutpflege • Conflict Resolution • critical care stimulation • Einführungen in die Krankenpflege • Intensiv- u. Notfallpflege • Introductions to Nursing • Krankenpflege • Medicines management formulas • Notfallmedizin • Notfallpflege • nursing • nursing assessment techniques • nursing student • Nursing textbook • registered nurse • Sepsis • ventilated patient • vital signs clinical observation |
| ISBN-10 | 1-119-88246-X / 111988246X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-119-88246-6 / 9781119882466 |
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