Emergency Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! (2^nd Ed.) Incredibly Easy! Series#174; Series

Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest guidelines and innovation, Emergency Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, Second Edition, offers essential information on emergency, trauma, and critical care. Presented in the easy-to-learn and enjoyable Incredibly Easy! format, it covers emergency care basics, including patient assessment and triage, trauma, disease crises, and patient and family communication. It also addresses legal issues such as handling evidence and documentation, and holistic issues such as pain and end-of-life care. Chapters detail emergency nursing by body system and cover shock, multi-system traumas, environmental emergencies, disaster preparedness, communicable diseases, and obstetric and pediatric emergencies. The presentation features light-hearted cartoons and humor, "Memory Joggers" and other icons, and end-of-chapter review questions.

Table of Contents

Foreword

1 Emergency department basics
2 Holistic care
3 Neurologic emergencies
4 Cardiac emergencies
5 Respiratory emergencies
6 Gastrointestinal emergencies
7 Musculoskeletal emergencies and wound management
8 Genitourinary and gynecologic emergencies
9 Maxillofacial and ocular emergencies
10 Environmental emergencies
11 Shock and multisystem trauma

Appendices and index
Emergency delivery
Recording the Apgar score
Glossary
Index