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Emergency nursing : an essential guide for patient care / Judy Selfridge-Thomas.

Title
Emergency nursing : an essential guide for patient care / Judy Selfridge-Thomas.
Author
Selfridge-Thomas, Judy.
Publication
Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders, [1997], ©1997.

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xi, 212 pages; 28 cm
Summary
  • A consistent format for each page makes all this knowledge easy to scan - so you can apply it stat.
  • One topic per page. One page per topic. That's the magic of Emergency Nursing: An Essential Guide for Patient Care! This book makes the guidelines you need more convenient to access than any other resource. Just look up any disease or injury - from a critical illness to a common ambulatory care problem - and you'll find all the most essential information summarized on a single page.
  • You'll have concise help for identifying the specific problem - and the emergency nursing and medical care required to treat it. You'll also review, at a glance...common etiology, typical patient complaints, appropriate nursing diagnosis(es), triage urgency rating, common signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests and findings, usual nursing/medical interventions, common disposition of the patient, and much more.
Subject
  • Emergency Nursing
  • Emergency nursing
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 207) and index.
Contents
Sect. 1. Life-Threatening Conditions -- Sect. 2. Major System Injuries -- Sect. 3. Frequently Encountered Emergency Illness/Injuries. Unit I. Neurologic and Neuromuscular Conditions. Unit II. Ocular Conditions. Unit III. Ear-Nose-Throat Conditions. Unit IV. Respiratory Conditions. Unit V. Cardiac Conditions. Unit VI. Abdominal Conditions. Unit VII. Genitourinary-Gynecologic Conditions. Unit VIII. Pregnancy-Related Conditions. Unit IX. Musculoskeletal Conditions. Unit X. Skin Injury/Rash Conditions. Unit XI. Endocrine-Hematologic Conditions. Unit XII. Environment-Related Conditions. Unit XIII. Toxicologic-Psychological Conditions -- Sect. 4. Appendices.
ISBN
0721647030
LCCN
96023285
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries