Acute Care for Nurses
eBook - ePub

Acute Care for Nurses

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eBook - ePub

Acute Care for Nurses

About this book

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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Information

Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781119882459
eBook ISBN
9781119882473
Edition
1
Subtopic
Nursing

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Part 1: NURSING IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING
  10. Part 2: RECOGNISING AND RESPONDING TO MEDICAL EMERGENCIES
  11. Part 3: ACUTE CARE SKILLS
  12. Part 4: CRITICAL CARE SIMULATION
  13. Appendix 1: NATIONAL EARLY WARNING SCORE 2 OBSERVATION CHART
  14. Appendix 2: SEPSIS TOOL CHART
  15. Appendix 3: FLUID PRESCRIPTION CHART
  16. Index
  17. End User License Agreement