Quick Reference for Emergency Nursing

This pocket-sized reference provides quick, convenient access to essential nursing care guidance on a full range of problems encountered in emergency settings. A body system organization and a concise, bulleted format make information easy to locate and apply.

Covers concepts unique to emergency nursing such as triage, transfer, and organ donation.

Provides a wealth of helpful clinical tools, charts, and diagrams, including a table of estimated dates of confinement, charts of drip medications, including cardiac drugs, lists of laboratory values that present both normal ranges and causes of abnormal values, an overview of HIV/AIDS infections, incubation periods for common infectious diseases, immunization schedules, a Rule of Nines chart, criteria for organ donation, a Peak Flow nomogram common trauma/neuro scores and more.

Illustrates the application of common splints and other important techniques.

Summarizes the complete current ACLS guidelines in quick-reference algorithms to simplify decision-making.