Acute Care for Nurses

Claire Boyd (Practice Development Trainer, North Bristol NHS Trust)

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Wiley-Blackwell
16 February 2023

Nursing

Series: Student Survival Skills

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.

By: Claire Boyd (Practice Development Trainer North Bristol NHS Trust)
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781119882459
ISBN 10: 1119882451
Series: Student Survival Skills
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 16 February 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Introduction Acknowledgements Part 1 Chapter 1 Diagnostic tests and advanced formulae Chapter 2 Sepsis Chapter 3 Conflict Resolution Chapter 4 Patient Assessment Chapter 5 SBAR Communication Part 2 Chapter 6 Airway Chapter 7 Breathing Chapter 8 Circulation Chapter 9 Disability Chapter 10 Exposure Part 3 Chapter 11 Emergency fluid management in adults Chapter 12 Treating Paediatric Dehydration Chapter 13 Hypodermoclysis Chapter 14 Central Lines Chapter 15 Invasive and Non-Invasive Ventilation (CPAP/BIPAP) Part 4 Chapter 16 Critical care simulation Chapter 17 Medical Abbreviations Chapter 18 Answers to activities questions Appendix 1 NEWS II Observation Chart Appendix 2 Sepsis tool kit Appendix 3 Fluid prescription chart

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.

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Acute Care for Nurses

Claire Boyd (Practice Development Trainer, North Bristol NHS Trust)

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