A nurse's survival guide to the ward
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Bibliographic Information
A nurse's survival guide to the ward
Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2008
2nd ed
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-397) and index
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
The new edition of this highly popular book is an indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems for nurses starting work on the ward or returning to practice. It provides guidance in a variety of areas including: how to organise your job and yourself; how to assess patients; clinical information on a wide range of conditions; important principles, procedures and investigations; how to administer drugs safely; and, what to do in an emergency. As well as information on how to do the job, the importance of communication and nursing care issues is emphasised. Background information is also given on underlying legal, health and safety issues.
Table of Contents
- SECTION 1 Your job and its organization: Organizing yourself
- Emergency situations SECTION 2 Assessing and investigating: Identification of patient problems
- Assessment
- Observations and measurements
- Procedures and investigations
- Nursing care issues SECTION 3 Procedures: General principles and procedures
- Infection and its control
- Fluid and electrolyte balance
- Nutritional support SECTION 4 A systems approach: The cardiovascular system
- The respiratory system
- The blood
- The gastrointestinal system
- The renal system
- The nervous system
- The endocrine system
- Diseases of bones and joints
- The immune system
- Cancer
- Surgery SECTION 5 Pharmacology
- Drugs and the law: Administration of drugs
- Nurse prescribing
- Pharmacology in practice
- Classification of drugs
- Poisoning References
- Further reading and useful websites
- Appendix 1 Units of measurement
- Appendix 2 Normal values
- Appendix 3 Drug measurement and calculations Glossary
- Index
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