Acute Care for Nurses - Claire Boyd

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Résumé :
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....

Biographie:

Claire Boyd is Practice Development Trainer in the Learning and Research Centre at North Bristol Healthcare Trust, Bristol, UK. She develops, designs, delivers and evaluates learning programmes, and organises the transition training programme for student nurses and support of these nurses in clinical areas....

Sommaire:

PREFACE vii

INTRODUCTION ix

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi

PART 1 NURSING IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING 1

1 DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ADVANCED FORMULAE 3

2 RECOGNISING SEPSIS 25

3 CONFLICT RESOLUTION 43

4 PATIENT ASSESSMENT 63

5 SITUATION, BACKGROUND, ASSESSMENT, AND RESPONSE (SBAR) 89

PART 2 RECOGNISING AND RESPONDING TO MEDICAL EMERGENCIES 103

6 AIRWAY 105

7 BREATHING 117

8 CIRCULATION 135

9 DISABILITY 149

10 EXPOSURE 173

PART 3 ACUTE CARE SKILLS 185

11 EMERGENCY FLUID MANAGEMENT 187

12 TREATING PAEDIATRIC DEHYDRATION 207

13 HYPODERMOCLYSIS 217

14 CENTRAL LINES 231

15 INVASIVE AND NON-INVASIVE VENTILATION 243

PART 4 CRITICAL CARE SIMULATION 265

16 CRITICAL CARE SIMULATION 267

17 MEDICAL ABBREVIATIONS 281

18 ANSWERS TO ACTIVITIES, QUESTIONS, AND TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE 293

APPENDIX 1: NATIONAL EARLY WARNING SCORE 2 OBSERVATION CHART 315

APPENDIX 2: SEPSIS TOOL CHART 317

APPENDIX 3: FLUID PRESCRIPTION CHART 319

INDEX 321