Are you a starting work in critical care? Are you an experienced nurse but need to check guidelines and best practices? This is the indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems faced by nurses working in this specialty. This book will help you to - Organise your job and yourself - Assess patients and communicate with them - Get clinical information on a wide range of conditions - What to do in emergency This UPDATED edition: - Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field - Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis - Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career. Part of the A Nurse's Survival Guide series Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career.

Are you working as a children's nurse or doing a placement on a children's ward? Are you studying to become a great professional involved in nursing children and young people? This user friendly, easy to carry textbook is a practical and evidence-based guide which provides those in the early stages of their careers with clinical information and insights. This book will help you to: - Gather all the information you need to work with patients, in a concise and structure way; - Obtain the knowledge required and clinical skills needed on a wide range of conditions; - Have an excellent starting point and great revision aid to refer to when in doubt; What will you find in this UPDATED edition: - Answers to some of your questions about embarking on your career into children's nursing; - How to satisfy children's requirements and needs in the ward according to their age and stage of their development; - Examples on legal, health and safety issues; - Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field. Part of the A Nurse's Survival Guide series What will you find in this UPDATED edition: - Answers to some of your questions about embarking on your career into children's nursing; - How to safely care for children's needs in the ward according to their age and stage of their development; - Examples on legal, health and safety issues; - Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field. Part of the A Nurse's Survival Guide series

Are you a nurse, a physician's associate or a medical student in an acute or emergency unit? This is your indispensable primer of acute medical care – a pocket guide to caring for patients with acute medical conditions. This book will help you to - care for patients in the first critical 24 hours of admission - manage patients using the most up-to-date evidence based approach - understand the most common emergency medical conditions and their underlying disease mechanisms - handle the patient's assessment , understand the observations and manage their disease - easily obtain clear practical advice - know what to tell the patient and relatives using jargon-free language - access information on SARS, avian influenza and bio-terrorism This updated edition - contains improved sections on stroke care, diabetes and sepsis, - introduces the NEWS 2 observation chart - has revised its case histories in line with current practice This updated edition: contains improved sections on stroke care, diabetes and sepsis, introduces the NEWS 2 observation chart has revised its case histories in line with current practice

Further to the success of the previous editions, A Nurse's Survival Guide to the Ward continues to be the indispensable guide to all the procedures and problems faced by nurses and healthcare professionals every day. Whether you are a clinical practicing student or a qualified nurse, this book is the perfect straightforward reference for every doubt you might have about emergency situations, as well as assessments, clinical procedures and much more. What will you find in this updated edition: Completely updated and revised content written by well-known authors with extensive experience in the field; Up-to-date legal issues, health and safety, professional practice issues and ethics in nursing; Expansions of areas such as oxygen administration, fluid and electrolyte balance and nutrition

Part of the popular Saunders Nursing Survival Guide series, this book prepares you to manage the most common health care problems you'll see in critical care, trauma, or emergency settings. Each chapter is organized from the most immediate and life-threatening conditions to less emergent critical care conditions. Its lighthearted, cartoon-filled approach simplifies difficult concepts, covering each body system in terms of current practice standards. - Consistent headings break content into four succinct areas of review: What (subject) IS, What You NEED TO KNOW, What You DO, and Do You UNDERSTAND? - Clinical terms and shorthand expressions are highlighted, exposing you to terminology used in the hospital setting. - A color insert illustrates concepts and principles of critical care and emergency nursing, including various complications - Mnemonic devices aid your memory and interactive activities help you learn, with exercises including fill in the blank, matching, word jumbles, true/false, and crossword puzzles. - Special icons help you focus on vital information: - Take Home Points help you prepare for clinical rotations. - Caution notes alert you to dangerous conditions and how to avoid them. - Lifespan notes point out age-related variations in signs and symptoms, nursing interventions, and patient teaching. - Culture notes cite possible variations related to a patient's cultural background. - Web links direct you to Internet resources for additional research and study. - What You WILL LEARN learning objectives help you identify quickly the content covered and goals for each chapter. - NCLEX"¥ examination-style review questions at the end of each chapter allow you to test your understanding of content and practice for the Boards. - Cartoon characters with brief captions help to better explain difficult concepts. - Margin notes are streamlined for ease of use and effectiveness. - Content updates reflect current practice and emergent situations, including increased focus on disaster preparedness, code management, updated ACLS guidelines, and hypertension.

A crucial updated edition of this authoritative guide on critical care nursing. The 2nd edition of Critical Care Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures is a practical overview of essential procedures for the care of critically ill patients. Beginning with chapters outlining the current scope of critical care, the book adopts a systematic stage-by-stage approach from admission to discharge. At each stage, it provides insights into physiology, key procedures, and the relevant evidence base. Now fully updated to incorporate the latest research and best practices, this volume is poised to remain an indispensable resource for the next generation of critical care providers. Readers of the second edition will find: In-depth, beat-by-beat analysis of key procedures in critical care Interventions underpinned by the latest evidence Content aligned with the National Critical Care Competency Framework and endorsed by the British Association of Critical Care Nurses Critical Care Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures is ideal for nurses working in a critical care unit, nurses undertaking post-qualification specialist courses in critical care, or other healthcare professionals working as part of a critical care team.

With the major redeployment of staff during the Covid-19 pandemic, this authoritative textbook provides a practical resource for healthcare professionals who may be new to acute and critical care settings. Written by nurses for nurses, the book will help readers master patient assessment, non-invasive ventilation, the use of high flow nasal oxygenation and renal care. You will learn about the challenges of resuscitation, leadership and responding to a public health emergency, and effective personal protection and hygiene practices. Covid-19: Critical Care textbook has been written by experts with frontline experience of working in hospitals during the pandemic and will remain relevant for those responding to future infectious disease outbreaks or waves of Covid-19. - Self-assessment quizzes to support ongoing learning - Suitable for staff re-deployed and those already working in acute and critical care areas - Fully illustrated to demonstrate the use of PPE and coronavirus-specific procedures - Contributions from key experts who have dealt directly with the disease provide practical insights

A clear, concise, hands-on guide to useful, practical tips and techniques to ease the transition from staff nurse to staff manager. The book includes stress generated by the reorganizing and restructuring occurring in healthcare facilities, and examines major healthcare issues, as well as concerns related to managed care. 6 illus.