Full Description
Emergency nursing requires rapid assessment and decision-making. Often nurses are required to make sense of considerable amounts of information and act on it. The Oxford Handbook of Emergency Nursing provides an essential resource when time is short and the need for practical clinical guidance is paramount. This second edition has been fully updated to reflect new guidelines and approaches which have impacted emergency nursing in recent years. This handbook provides clear, focussed information that will aid all areas of patient assessment and management in emergency care. The concise format will enable the reader to quickly locate the information needed and provides alerts regarding critical 'must-dos' for ill adults and children. The skills section provides a quick summary of the many clinical skills needed in emergency care, ideal as an introduction for the uninitiated and as a refresher for skills performed infrequently. Additionally, this second edition has been expanded to cover nursing in major trauma and emergencies in the elderly. This handbook will empower nurses to deliver excellence in emergency care.
Written by practising nurses and subject experts, the Oxford Handbook of Emergency Nursing is a unique and invaluable companion for qualified and student nurses, and to all health care professionals working in the emergency care setting.
Contents
1: General principles of emergency nursing
2: First principles
3: Investigations
4: Emergency care of the infant and child
5: Obstetric emergencies
6: Neurological emergencies
7: Respiratory emergencies
8: Cardiovascular emergencies
9: Musculoskeletal injuries
10: Gastrointestinal emergencies
11: Genitourinary emergencies
12: Skin emergencies
13: Ophthalmological emergencies
14: ENT emergencies
15: Major trauma
16: Endocrine and metabolic emergencies
17: Haematological emergencies
18: Overdose and poisoning
19: Mental health emergencies
20: Emergencies in older patients
21: Skills reminder
