Fr. 30.90

Acute Care for Nurses

English · Paperback / Softback

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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.

List of contents

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

About the author










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.

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