Nursing Medical Emergency Patients

by Philip Jevon, Melanie Humphreys, Beverley Ewens

Overview

Nursing Medical Emergency Patients is a practical guide to the nursing care and management of patients with medical emergencies involving system failure. Following an initial chapter on assessment, the authors adopt a system-by-system approach, with an emphasis on the clinical features of medical emergencies, their assessment, diagnosis and treatment.

Nursing Medical Emergency Patients is a vital resource for all nurses working with medical emergency patients, and provides an essential companion to both Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient and Treating the Critically Ill Patient.

• Accessible and reader friendly
• Integrates theory with practice
• Adopts an evidence based approach
• Includes chapter objectives, 'best practice' boxes and case studies
• Refers to National guidelines and key initiatives e.g. outreach teams
• Includes legal and ethical issues

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444327281
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/11/2010
Series:	Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Philip Jevon is Resuscitation Officer/Clinical Skills Lead and Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Manor Hospital Walsall.

Melanie Humphreys is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton.

Beverley Ewens is Staff Development Nurse, Critical Care Unit, Joondalup Health Campus, Western Australia.

Table of Contents

Contributors.

Foreword.

Acknowledgements.

Chapter 1 Overview of the treatment of medical emergencies (Philip Jevon).

Chapter 2 Respiratory emergencies (Kate Deacon).

Chapter 3 Cardiac emergencies (Melanie Humphreys).

Chapter 4 Cardiovascular emergencies (Melanie Humphreys).

Chapter 5 Shock (Beverley Ewens).

Chapter 6 Neurological emergencies (Anthony Batson and Christine Thompson).

Chapter 7 Acute renal failure (Sue Talbot).

Chapter 8 Gastrointestinal emergencies (Beverley Ewens).

Chapter 9 Endocrine emergencies (Philip Jevon).

Chapter 10 Poisoning (James Bethel).

Chapter 11 Critical care outreach service (Kate Deacon).

Chapter 12 Ethical and legal issues (Fiona Foxall).

Index.