Emergency Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781582554648
• ISBN10: 1582554641
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-10
• Publisher: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS

Summary

Emergency Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! offers essential information on emergency, trauma, and critical care in the popular, easy-to-learn, and enjoyable Incredibly Easy! format. It 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. Chapters detail emergency nursing by body system and cover shock, multi-system traumas, environmental emergencies, disaster preparedness, communicable diseases, and obstetric and pediatric emergencies. The presentation features light-hearted cartoons and humor, "Memory Joggers" and other icons, and end-of-chapter review questions.

Table of Contents

Contributors and consultants	p. vi
Foreword	p. vii
Emergency department basics	p. 1
Holistic care	p. 27
Neurologic emergencies	p. 43
Cardiac emergencies	p. 97
Respiratory emergencies	p. 201
Gastrointestinal emergencies	p. 265
Musculoskeletal emergencies and wound management	p. 309
Genitourinary and gynecologic emergencies	p. 353
Maxillofacial and ocular emergencies	p. 401
Environmental emergencies	p. 441
Shock and multisystem trauma	p. 473
Appendices and index
Emergency delivery	p. 512
Recording the Apgar score	p. 514
Glossary	p. 515
Selected references and Internet resources	p. 518
Index	p. 519
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