Explains the heart and how it works. This guide also explains the principles of ECG interpretation to help students understand ECG rhythm and its relationship to cardiac electrophysiology. It features over 100 NCLEX [registered] examination-style questions and provides 2-3 rhythm strips at the end of the chapters.

Helps you to manage the most common health care problems you'll see in critical care, trauma, or emergency settings. In this work, each chapter is organized from the most immediate and life-threatening conditions to less emergent critical care conditions.

Discussing the most common health care problems seen in the critical and trauma/emergency settings using a systems approach with a focus on current practice standards, this text offers a consistent disorder format and covers a wide-range of information from emergent to critical care nursing.

Provides answers to questions such as which laboratory tests to order or what the results might mean. This work covers over 900 lab tests and diagnostic procedures. It also presents an alphabetical list of hundreds of diseases, conditions, and symptoms, including the tests and procedures commonly used to confirm or rule out a suspected diagnosis.

As the likely first responder in an emergency, you need quick access to essential information on the complications of different cancer types and treatments. This title offers information on the pathophysiology, complications, risks, treatment approaches, prognosis, assessment findings, and nursing and medical interventions for a range of cancers.

Focuses on mathematical calculations used in the clinical setting. This book provides coverage of the ratio and proportion, and formula methods of drug calculation. Common medications and methods of administration are used, including examples such as syringe usage, oral and parenteral medications, and medication reconstitution.