Clinical Strategies, Medical Considerations, and Practical Interventions
Focuses on four challenging aspects of psychiatric nursing: keeping the patient safe, stabilizing symptoms, promoting engagement in treatment, and discharge planning. In an easy-to-access format, the book offers evidence-based interventions and concrete strategies that can be used to alleviate patient distress and effectively deliver care.
The second edition of this pocket-sized resource for radiology nurses continues to demystify complex procedures by providing concise yet comprehensive information on the basics of radiology. Describing essential procedures and protocols in quick access style, the book covers over 50 different Interventional Radiology procedures.
Focuses on current, ICU-specific information needed daily by busy ICU nurses. This updated, quick-access guide for critical care nurses covers the most common admitting diagnoses and reviews their causes, signs and symptoms, and interventions.
This critical-thinking blueprint for the triage nurse delivers essential knowledge for accurate decision-making in emergency triage situations. Formatted to provide easily accessible and retrievable information, the manual facilitates rapid recognition and understanding of acuity levels and their application to patient care.
What Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Need to Know
This pocket-sized guide distils complicated neurologic conditions to deliver the essentials of best care for the neurocritical patient. The book covers the defining characteristics, clinical presentation, diagnostics, treatment, and nursing considerations of common neurological disorders seen in acute care settings.
Provide evidence-based information for APRNs and PAs who work with individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs). Written in a bulleted style for easy access to critical information, the book addresses medical and psychiatric conditions which may accompany SUDs and the ethical considerations of working with affected patients and families.
Analyses the collaborative nursing response to a variety of global disasters that occurred between 1908 and 2012. The discuses the transnational character of disaster response, and examines how these transnational partnerships developed, their implications for policy, and how we can use lessons learned to improve care in the future.
Fully updated in line with contemporary policy and practice, the second edition introduces core aspects of critical care - from infection prevention and control to psychological care - before introducing critical care as it relates to the pathophysiology of different systems of the body. The book is packed full of practical learning features ......
Prepare for your Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN (R)) exam with Emergency Nurse Certification Practice Q&A. With 350 high-quality questions and comprehensive rationales based on the most recent Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) exam content outline, this essential resource is designed to help you sharpen your specialty knowledge ......