Nursing Know How

This volume of the new Nursing Know-How series offers how-to guidance on the latest techniques for evaluating over 250 important signs and symptoms. Each sign or symptom is presented on a page or two-page spread in bulleted format. Numerous illustrations and flow charts complement the text. Know-How Nugget icons offer expert tips for eliciting or assessing a sign or symptom. Case Clip icons present real-life responses to an urgent sign or symptom—the nurse's assessment findings and the rapid response team's interventions. Quick Action! icons present urgent responses to an alarming sign or symptom and interventions for avoiding a life-threatening emergency.

Provides information on documentation issues, including electronic medical records, legal and ethical implications, and documentation in acute cases, along with a variety of charting examples.

Put the what, why, and how for 106 fundamentals skills and procedures right at your fingertips! From the team of Wilkinson and Treas, this handy guide will become an invaluable companion on the road to becoming a successful nurse.

Written in paragraph and bullet format, this volume offers how-to guidance on the latest techniques for evaluating heart and breath sounds and features numerous illustrations and flow charts.

Your step-by-step guide to key emergency and critical care procedures and hands-on nursing care. Whether you need to know how to prioritise your response to a patient with multiple injuries, or you need a quick practical guide to fluid therapy, this is the go-to resource. Colour photographs of real life cases take you through the procedures and after-care, detailing essential skills. This book provides vital information for emergency and critical care situations, whether you’re looking for confidence in handling emergency cases in a first-opinion practice, or a relevant, succinct guide for an emergency clinic. Be inspired to become more confident in your clinical skills and abilities, and learn how to apply your existing skills to an emergency situation. A companion website provides additional resources useful in the management of emergency and critical patients. Visit the website to find information charts and video clips of procedures. Written by a veterinary nurse and a veterinary surgeon who work together in the largest UK emergency clinic, this book is a practical, how-to manual with a nursing focus. Suitable as a complete reference for nurses studying towards qualifications, or as a practical guide for daily use by veterinary nurses working in veterinary emergency and critical care.

This textbook draws on international contributors with a range of backgrounds to explore, engage with and challenge readers in understanding the many aspects and elements that inform and influence contemporary nursing practice. With a focus to the future, this book explores the challenges facing health services and presents the arguments for a nursing contribution and influence in ensuring safe and quality care. Readers are supported to explore how, as individuals, they can shape their personal nursing identity and practice. The structure of the text is based on the belief that an individual nurse’s professional identity is developed through an interaction between their personal attributes and the influences of the profession itself. Reflecting this approach, the authors engage in a conversation with the reader rather than simply presenting a series of facts and information. Organised around a series of topical and pertinent questions and drawing on perspectives from policy, education and practice, the book explores a diverse range of topics such as: how historical and popular media representations of nursing hold back nursing practice today; the opportunities presented through education and nursing role development to increase the nursing contribution to health services; the economic and political influences on nursing and health care; how the professional regulation of nurses and core values informs your practice; ways to define and develop your own strong nursing identity. Central chapter questions provide ideal triggers for group discussions in class or online and equally as discussion topics between colleagues to support ongoing professional development. There is an emphasis throughout Nurses and Nursing on challenging thinking to recast nursing practice for the future by encouraging the reader to explore and create their emerging nursing identity or re-examine previously long held views. This text supports the reader to better understand health care, nursing and most importantly themselves as nurses.

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