Helps you meet the ever-changing needs of the field of transport nursing. This title features comprehensive overviews that familiarize you with some of the most common diseases and injuries encountered in practice, accompanied by important management considerations to help you ensure the most effective communication and the safest patient care.

Suitable for trauma care nurses, this comprehensive reference manual offers information on clinical directions through the use of algorithms, tables, boxes, clinical pearls, and nursing alerts.

A guide to the clinical examination and treatment of minor injuries, this work discusses a comprehensive range of the conditions likely to present in each area with instructions on examination, as well as guidelines on whether to treat or refer. It is illustrated to demonstrate anatomical features and the clinical skills for treating injuries.

Covers the issues and procedures related to the emergency department. This comprehensive resource incorporates developments and changes in clinical practice. It provides coverage that includes clinical fundamentals, treatment for trauma and medical-surgical emergencies, the foundations of emergency nursing practice, and special populations.

The Oxford Handbook of Emergency nursing provides an essential resource when time is short and the need for practical clinical guidence is paramount. This handbook provides clear, focussed information that will aid all areas of patient assessment and management in emergency care.

A practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of acute symptoms and conditions. It offers information on emergency differential diagnosis for non-specialists in a hospital or primary care setting.

Offers essential information on emergency, trauma, and critical care. This work covers emergency care basics including patient assessment and triage, trauma, disease crises, and patient and family communication, as well as legal issues such as handling evidence and documentation and holistic issues such as pain and end-of-life care.

Reflects the challenges presented to A&E nurses by the range of patient conditions encountered in emergency care. This is a useful text for A&E staff, including those who are new to the A&E department and minor injury unit who are not taking formal study.

Shows nurses why they are doing what they do for a range of accident and emergency conditions. This book features sections that cover potential problem areas such as paediatrics and treating the mentally ill accident and emergency patient.

Useful for emergency room nurses preparing for the CEN exam, this book contains over 1,400 questions and answers in an easy-to-use two-column format-questions in the left column, correct answers and rationales in the right. A bound-in CD-ROM contains over 300 additional questions.

Whether you are a new or an experienced emergency nurse, this title offers an essential tool for your practice. It helps you build and verify your knowledge, develop practice standards, improve quality of care, and educate nursing staff as well as patients and families. It also helps you prepare for the Certification for Emergency Nurses exam.

Presents complaint-based triage protocols for assessing patients face to face in emergency and urgent care settings and assigning acuity levels within the 5-tier triage acuity system. This book covers complaints in various age groups, including environmental exposures and psychiatric presentations.

Provides guidance on how to respond to over 170 emergency situations. This book covers emergencies with bulleted, action-oriented response instructions and then explains what caused the emergency and preventive strategies. Tables and checklists provide information at a glance. Several sidebars and 200 illustrations describe the key procedures.

An examination of the practicalities of conducting research in a busy A&E department. Brian Dolan candidly describes the methodologies and research tools that were employed while carrying out a pilot study looking at nurse practitioners' interactions with patients.

Life and Death On the Streets of New York. The author began working as an ambulance driver in order to pay his way through college. For the next seven years, he worked New York City's most dangerous neighbourhoods as an emergency technician (EMT) dealing with drug overdoses, gang fights and car crashes, all while juggling college work and a personal life. His stories are a graphic portrayal of ...

As wound management has become a highly specialised and fascinating field over the years, this book has been written with the novice in mind. Wound management has caused much confusion for practitioners who, in the past, have viewed it as simple dressing changes.

Includes 193 step-by-step emergency procedures, containing procedures such as: umbilical vessel cannulation, pelvic splinting, peripheral nerve stimulator (twitch monitoring), and methotrexate for ectopic pregnancy.

Presents information on wound care. This title covers the principles behind acute as well as chronic wounds. It include assessment and evaluation principles, how to stage or classify any wound, and practical hints on wound measurement and wound care.

A beginner's guide to practical resuscitation which enables students and newly qualified staff to develop key resuscitation knowledge and skills. It reflects guidelines and developments in resuscitation, including the 2005 European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation. It covers adult, paediatric and trauma resuscitation.

Presents over 200 triage protocols for evaluating patients' symptoms over the telephone. Each symptom entry lists questions, grouped by urgency level, to determine whether the caller should seek emergency care now, seek medical care the same day, call back for appointment, or follow home care instructions.