Critical care nursing continues to be a unique and challenging specialty. The critical care nurse must of necessity be well versed in both professionally oriented matters and pathophysiologically based material. The challenge for us has been to combine these two aspects successfully to arrive at a broader perspective of critical care nursing.
This manual represents a three-year effort to standardize basic life support skill (BLSS) performance through the definition of skills and corresponding proficiency testing criteria. The work entailed the interaction of an emergency physician, a fire chief and training officer, an ambulance owener, and more recently an EMT instructor with a superb artistic talent.
The sixth edition of this respected resource outlines the essentials core knowledge base for emergency nursing in a systematic, concise, and efficient manner.
The book is comprised of eight major units: Psychophysiology, Circulation, Respiration, the Nervous System, Fluid and Electrolytes, Alimentation, Coagulation, and Thermoregulation.
Contents; 1. Introduction to advancing practice in pain management 2. Nurse-led femoral nerve block service for patients with fractured neck of femur 3. New directions in acute pain managemen: ketamine 4. Developing a nurse-led clinic for the treatment of neuropathic pain 5. Nurse-led strategies to improve patient safety in acute pain management 6. Developing an a acupuncture service for …
Nursing Medical Emergency Patients is a practical guide to the nursing care and management of patients with medical emergencies involving system failure. Following an initial chapter on assessment, it adopts a system-by-system approach, with an emphasis on the clinical features of medical emergencies, their assessment, diagnosis and treatment.
This book is divided intothree parts : Structure of infection control program; epidemiology of nosocomial infections; and Surveilance, prevention and control of nosocomial infections.
This book offers a breakthrough approach to learning medical terminology by bringing the language of medicine to life within the context of a virtual health care community, fulwood medical center. Students learn the vocabulary of various body systems as they apply to related medical specialties. Terms of anatomy and physiology, pathology, diagnostic procedures, and treatments are all presented …
Seorang perawat keperawatan kritis adalah seseorang yang secara langsung memberikan pelayanan keperawatan kepada pasien yang mengalami cedera atau sakit kritis.
Buku ini memberikan informasi yang diperlukan untuk pengambilan keputusan dan praktik yang aman di unit perawatan emergensi.