Accident & Emergency: Theory and Practice

Accident&Emergency: Theory into Practice is the comprehensive textbook for emergency nurses, covering the full range of emergency care issues, including trauma management and trauma care, the lifespan, psychological issues, physiology for practice, practice and professional issues. This book is about more than what a nurse should do; it is about why it should be done, leading to sustainable and safer practice.

The third edition of this ever-popular text expands its horizons to include contributions from emergency care professionals in New Zealand, Australia and the Republic of Ireland, as well as the United Kingdom.

  • Applied anatomy and physiology and how it changes in injury and ill health
  • Treatment and management of a wide range of emergency conditions
  • Includes emergency care across the life continuum, trauma management, psychological dimensions and practice and professional issues.
    • ‘Transportation of the critically ill patient’ chapter outlines the nursing and operational considerations related to transportation of the acutely ill person.
    • ‘Creating patient flow’ chapter overviews the concepts behind patient flow across the wider health system and introduces the key concept of staff and patient time. It explores some of the techniques used in manufacturing and service industries and its application to health system, illustrating how to reduce the waste of patient and staff time.
    • ‘Managing issues of culture and power in ED’ chapter demonstrates that cultural awareness is about much more than recognising the different religious needs of patients and their families; it’s also about recognising culture, diversity, stereotyping and expressions of power.
    • Updated to reflect the latest practice and guidelines in this fast-changing field of practice.
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    Accident & Emergency: Theory and Practice

    Accident&Emergency: Theory into Practice is the comprehensive textbook for emergency nurses, covering the full range of emergency care issues, including trauma management and trauma care, the lifespan, psychological issues, physiology for practice, practice and professional issues. This book is about more than what a nurse should do; it is about why it should be done, leading to sustainable and safer practice.

    The third edition of this ever-popular text expands its horizons to include contributions from emergency care professionals in New Zealand, Australia and the Republic of Ireland, as well as the United Kingdom.

    • Applied anatomy and physiology and how it changes in injury and ill health
    • Treatment and management of a wide range of emergency conditions
    • Includes emergency care across the life continuum, trauma management, psychological dimensions and practice and professional issues.
      • ‘Transportation of the critically ill patient’ chapter outlines the nursing and operational considerations related to transportation of the acutely ill person.
      • ‘Creating patient flow’ chapter overviews the concepts behind patient flow across the wider health system and introduces the key concept of staff and patient time. It explores some of the techniques used in manufacturing and service industries and its application to health system, illustrating how to reduce the waste of patient and staff time.
      • ‘Managing issues of culture and power in ED’ chapter demonstrates that cultural awareness is about much more than recognising the different religious needs of patients and their families; it’s also about recognising culture, diversity, stereotyping and expressions of power.
      • Updated to reflect the latest practice and guidelines in this fast-changing field of practice.
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      Accident&Emergency: Theory into Practice is the comprehensive textbook for emergency nurses, covering the full range of emergency care issues, including trauma management and trauma care, the lifespan, psychological issues, physiology for practice, practice and professional issues. This book is about more than what a nurse should do; it is about why it should be done, leading to sustainable and safer practice.

      The third edition of this ever-popular text expands its horizons to include contributions from emergency care professionals in New Zealand, Australia and the Republic of Ireland, as well as the United Kingdom.

      • Applied anatomy and physiology and how it changes in injury and ill health
      • Treatment and management of a wide range of emergency conditions
      • Includes emergency care across the life continuum, trauma management, psychological dimensions and practice and professional issues.
        • ‘Transportation of the critically ill patient’ chapter outlines the nursing and operational considerations related to transportation of the acutely ill person.
        • ‘Creating patient flow’ chapter overviews the concepts behind patient flow across the wider health system and introduces the key concept of staff and patient time. It explores some of the techniques used in manufacturing and service industries and its application to health system, illustrating how to reduce the waste of patient and staff time.
        • ‘Managing issues of culture and power in ED’ chapter demonstrates that cultural awareness is about much more than recognising the different religious needs of patients and their families; it’s also about recognising culture, diversity, stereotyping and expressions of power.
        • Updated to reflect the latest practice and guidelines in this fast-changing field of practice.

        Product Details

        ISBN-13: 9780702046766
        Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
        Publication date: 05/23/2013
        Sold by: Barnes & Noble
        Format: eBook
        Pages: 608
        File size: 15 MB
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        About the Author

        Director of award-winning health services consultancy since 2001 (Health Service 360) Author/editor of eight books on emergency nursing/leadership/education Work in UK, NZ, Australia and Ireland undertaking whole systems and leadership/culture change Visiting Prof of Nursing, Oxford Institute of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Research (OxINMAHR) Honorary Prof of Leadership in Healthcare, Salford University Originator of both #EndPJparalysis and #Last1000days social movements to value patients’ time and safety

        Table of Contents

        Part 1 Trauma management

        1. Pre-hospital care

        2. Trauma life support

        3. Major incidents

        4. Transportation of the acutely ill patient

        Part 2 Trauma care

        5. Head injuries

        6. Skeletal injuries

        7. Spinal injuries

        8. Thoracic injuries

        9. Abdominal injuries

        10. Maxillofacial injuries

        11. Burns

        Part 3 Psychological dimensions

        12. Aggression

        13. Stress and stress management

        14. Care of the bereaved

        15. Mental health emergencies

        Part 4 Life continuum

        16. Infants

        17. Pre-school child

        18. Age 5 to puberty

        19. Adolescence

        20. Young adults

        21. Middle years

        22. Older people

        Part 5 Physiology for ED practice

        23. Physiology for ED practice

        24. Wound care

        25. Pain and pain management

        26. Local and regional anaesthesia

        Part 6 Emergency care

        27. Cardiac emergencies

        28. Medical emergencies

        29. Surgical emergencies

        30. Gynaecological and obstetric emergencies

        31. Ophthalmic emergencies

        32. Ear, nose and throat emergencies

        Part 7 Practice issues in emergency care

        33. People with learning disabilities

        34. Health promotion

        35. Triage

        Part 8 Professional issues in ED

        36. Leadership

        37. Clinical decision-making

        38. Ethical issues

        39. Law

        40. Health&safety

        41. Managing issues of culture and power in ED

        42. Improving patient flow

        Appendix: Normal values

        Index

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