Claire Boyd

Acute Care for Nurses (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119882466
• Artikelnr.: 67399105

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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