Rapid Access Guide for Triage and Emergency Nurses: Chief Complaints with High Risk Presentations / Edition 1

Rapid Access Guide for Triage and Emergency Nurses: Chief Complaints with High Risk Presentations / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0826196276
ISBN-13:
9780826196279
Pub. Date:
07/30/2018
Publisher:
Springer Publishing Company
ISBN-10:
0826196276
ISBN-13:
9780826196279
Pub. Date:
07/30/2018
Publisher:
Springer Publishing Company
Rapid Access Guide for Triage and Emergency Nurses: Chief Complaints with High Risk Presentations / Edition 1

Rapid Access Guide for Triage and Emergency Nurses: Chief Complaints with High Risk Presentations / Edition 1

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Overview

From the award-winning authors of Fast Facts for the Triage Nurse!

The vital information you need to quickly identify acutely ill or injured patients.

Rapid Access Guide for Triage and Emergency Nurses: Chief Complaints With High-Risk Presentations is the first pocket-sized clinical manual focusing on patient-driven chief complaints. Designed to assist in rapidly recognizing potential life-threatening or life-altering conditions, this guide can be used in a variety of healthcare settings.

Content covers each body system and its most common chief complaints along with first-line questions, assessments, and interventions to prompt the user. Red flag findings, easily identified by the flag icon, denote critical signs and symptoms, while a light bulb icon helps the user locate key tips.

The guide includes evidence-based practice guidelines, reference tables, and checklists for at-a-glance retrieval of information. Most chapters contain space for taking notes, inscribing important phone numbers, or pasting facility specific policies and procedures.

Key Features:

  • Common chief complaints with essential tips
  • Unique patient presentations
  • Triage processes, clinical red flags, screening tools
  • Pediatric and older adult considerations
  • Disaster response
  • Active shooter or violent situation action steps

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826196279
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Publication date: 07/30/2018
Pages: 397
Product dimensions: 4.80(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Lynn Sayre Visser, MSN, RN, PHN, CEN, CPEN, FAEN has devoted her 28 year career to emergency nursing, triage education, mentoring others, and writing about topics that impact nursing. Her career has been complemented by experience in prehospital care, ICUs, post-anesthesia care units, and as an organ procurement coordinator. Her passion for quality patient care led her to play instrumental roles in the implementation of a provider in triage, rapid triage assessment, and immediate bedding processes along with formalized triage education in multiple facilities. She is a change-agent and philanthropist and has been published in a variety of arenas. She is the co-author of Fast Facts for the Triage Nurse: An Orientation and Care Guide, Essentials for the Triage Nurse, Rapid Access Guide for Triage and Emergency Nurses, and Rapid Access Guide for Pediatric Emergency Nursing. Her work has been recognized with two American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year awards, the 2019 Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Media Award, the 2021 ENA Team Award, as well as the 2019 Sigma Theta Tau Edith Moore Copeland Founders Award for excellence in creativity. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Nursing with an emphasis in education and a double Bachelor of Science degree in nursing and exercise physiology.


Anna Sivo Montejano, DNP, RN, PHN, CEN, has over three decades of experience in emergency nursing and triage education. She has taught nursing theory and aided the professional development of nurses as a preceptor, mentor, and clinical instructor. She has been a certified emergency nurse for more than 30 years. Her ED contributions include work as a staff nurse, primary preceptor, and assistant nurse manager, as well as in educational development. Dr. Montejano has worked to improve the quality and efficiency of patient care through projects such as the change process of rapid medical screenings and rapid triage assessments; as a project manager for a major ED expansion; and as an advanced cardiac life support instructor. She authored Fast Facts for the Triage Nurse: An Orientation and Care Guide in a Nutshell, which won third place in the 2015 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year awards in the critical care/emergency category, the Emergency Nursing Association, Media award in 2019, and the Assessment Technologies Institute (ATI) Nurse Educator of the Year. This book has since become available in the United Kingdom under the title Essentials for the Triage Nurse: An Orientation and Care Guide. She has her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from California State University, Northern Consortium (Fresno and San Jose State University), her Master's Degree in Nursing with a focus on education, and her Bachelor of Science degree.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Contributors and Reviewers

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Triage Down and Dirty

2. The Secrets to Using This Guide

3. Screening Tools and Checklists

4. Pediatric Considerations

5. Older Adult Considerations

6. Waiting Room Issues

7. Legal Issues

Introduction to High-Risk Presentations

8. Respiratory Emergencies

9. Cardiac Emergencies

10. Neurologic Emergencies

11. Abdominal Emergencies

12. Obstetric Emergencies

13. Gynecologic Emergencies

14. Male Reproductive Emergencies

15. Behavioral Health Emergencies

16. Toxicology Emergencies

17. Eye Emergencies

18. Ear, Nose, and Throat Emergencies

19. Musculoskeletal Emergencies

20. Bite and Sting Emergencies

21. Infectious Disease Emergencies

22. Trauma Emergencies

23. Burn Emergencies

24. Unique Situation Emergencies

25. Active Shooter and/or Active Violence

26. Emergency Management During a Disaster

References

Additional Reading

Index

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