Nursing in a flash
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Nursing in a flash
(Nursing in a flash pocketbooks)
Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2009
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 324) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Filled with checklists, illustrations, diagrams, flowcharts, and tables, this handy pocket reference gives nurses instant access to essential clinical facts in medical-surgical nursing. Contents are organized into tabbed sections: Assessment, Disorders, Diagnostic Tests, Skills, Medications and I.V.'s, and Patient Teaching. Coverage includes laboratory values, troubleshooting equipment, drug dosages, ventilator weaning parameters, equivalent measures, controlled drug schedules, infection control precautions, emergency cardiac drug administration, conversion formulas, I.V. flow rates, estimating burn surface area, respiratory patterns, evaluating level of consciousness, ECG rhythm interpretation, and much more. Graphic icons include: Alert (clinical cautions, warnings, and important facts) and Snapshot (explanations of pathophysiology).
Table of Contents
Contributors and consultants Part I Assessment Part II Disorders Part III. Diagnostic tests Part IV. Skills Part V. Medications & I.V.s Part VI. Patient teaching Selected references Index
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