Critical Care / Emergency Nursing: Guides & Handbooks

Outlines what nurses should know and be able to do for the effective prevention, preparedness, response and recovery from disasters.

Guide to how the Nation responds to all types of disasters and emergencies. It is built on scalable, flexible, and adaptable concepts identified in the National Incident Management System to align key roles and responsibilities across the Nation.

Addresses all facets of forensics nursing, including legal and ethical issues, conducting interviews, trauma-informed care, delivering expert testimony, documenting injuries, and collecting and preserving evidentiary substances for Medico-Legal purposes.

Covers how to build confidence in the triage role, accurately assess patient presentations, reduce personnel and hospital liability, increase patient and staff satisfaction, and, ultimately, deliver quality patient care that supports best outcomes.

Addresses the practical management of mental health scenarios in the emergency setting and offers first-hand reflections on how emergency nurses, practitioners and allied mental health professionals handle these situations.

Provides essential information on clinical topics pertinent to the critical care and emergency care specialties.

Features expanded content on the ubiquitous threat of terrorism, potential detonation of thermonuclear weapons, emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, and increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters from climate change.

Offers content on dealing with the injuries and nursing protocols for each disaster scenario, including weather-related, public health, radiological/nuclear and explosive.

Covers each body system and its most common chief complaints along with first-line questions, assessments, and interventions to prompt the user.

Helps you understand and apply critical care nursing principles and concepts to clinical assessment, diagnostic procedures, and therapeutic management.

Expert advice and direction on crucial areas such as assessments, diagnostics, imaging, monitoring, pre- and post-operative care, and more.

Covers patient-focused issues of bedside nursing; the technical knowledge necessary to care safely for ICU patients; the more common and specialized disease processes and treatments encountered; and how nurses can use their knowledge and skills to develop their own and others' practice.