Fast Facts for Trauma Nursing - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826160948 ISBN 13: 9780826160942

Verlag: Springer Publishing Co Inc, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Puts vital, streamlined information at your fingertips to promote lifesaving care

This concise resource delivers the specific knowledge nurses need in their daily practice to care for trauma patients safely and effectively. Fast Facts for Trauma Nursing provides a detailed overview of key trauma-related care issues while distilling critical elements of emergency and trauma care after resuscitation. Organized in a systems-based format, the book stresses evidence-based treatments and nursing interventions for best practice and patient care.

The resource--written by experienced trauma nurse clinicians--focuses on the approach to and care of the trauma patient from arrival to the hospital through discharge. Included is a review of mechanism of injury issues and traumatic injuries, as well as the key elements of primary, secondary, and tertiary surveys. This new resource highlights the unique physiological and psychological needs of the trauma patient while considering how social determinants of health can bear on trauma in individuals. It also focuses on the maintenance of spinal precautions, preventing secondary brain injuries, and monitoring patients for complications of trauma, including acute kidney injury, adult respiratory distress syndrome, compartment syndrome and rhabdomyolysis.. With its clear narrative and easy-to-access design and format, this new book will appeal to all levels of nurses who care for trauma patients along with those studying for specialized trauma certification exams. Purchase includes online access via most mobile devices or computers.?

Key Features:

• Delivers--in quick-access format--information nurses can put to use immediately
• Highlights key trauma care knowledge and its practical applications
• Offers key guidelines of what and how to communicate with trauma care providers
• Provides an overview of specific requirements for hospitals to maintain trauma center status

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dawn Carpenter, DNP, ACNP-BC, CCRN
Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Graduate School of Nursing
Worcester, Massachusetts

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0826160948
• ISBN 13: 9780826160942
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
• Herausgeber: Carpenter Dawn, Menard Alexander
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar