
Nursing in a Flash
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (Publisher)
Published on 27. May 2008
Book
Spiral bound
352 pages
978-0-7817-9282-0 (ISBN)
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).
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).
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).
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 152 mm
Width: 102 mm
Weight
4 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7817-9282-0 (9780781792820)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Prepared for publication
Content
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