Critical Care Nursing in a Flash

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780781792844
• ISBN10: 0781792843
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 2008-05-30
• Publisher: LWW

Summary

Filled with checklists, illustrations, diagrams, flowcharts, and tables, this handy pocket reference gives nurses instant access to essential clinical facts in critical care nursing. Contents are organized into tabbed sections: Assessment, Disorders, Diagnostic tests, Skills, Medications & I.V.s., and Patient teaching. Coverage includes laboratory values, troubleshooting equipment, drug dosages, ventilator weaning parameters, equivalent measures, controlled drug schedules, infection control precautions, emergency cardiac drug administration, conversion formulas, I.V. flow rates, estimating burn surface area, respiratory patterns, evaluating level of consciousness, ECG rhythm interpretation, and much more. Graphic icons: Alert (clinical cautions, warnings, and important facts) and Snapshot (explanations of pathophysiology).

Table of Contents

Contributors and consultants

Assessment

Disorders

Diagnostic tests

Skills

Medications and I.V.s

Patient teaching

Selected references

Index

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