Nurse to Nurse Trauma Care

by Donna A. Nayduch

Overview

• Market in the USA: nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, emergency nurses, intensive care nurses, and allied health personnel (total: one million)
• Coated flex-binding repels stains
• Includes full-text download for mobile devices

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071702546
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date:	08/14/2009
Series:	Nurse to Nurse
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	544
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Donna Nayduch RN, MSN, ACNP, CAISS
Trauma Consultant
Evans, CO

Table of Contents

Nurse's Pocket Guide to Trauma Care Chapter 1 Mechanisms of Injury
Chapter 2 Trauma Resuscitation and Stabilization
Chapter 3 Trauma Systems
Chapter 4 Head Injury
Chapter 5 Spine and Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 6 Face and Neck Injury
Chapter 7 Thoracic Injury
Chapter 8 Abdominal Injury
Chapter 9 Orthopaedic Injury
Chapter 10 Burn and External Injury
Chapter 11 Trauma in Women
Chapter 12 Specialty Populations
Chapter 13 Critical Care
Chapter 14 Environmental Injury
Chapter 15 Mass Casualty Incidents
Index

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer:Angela K Sullivan, ADN(University of Arkansas of Little Rock)
Description:Trauma nurses must approach the assessment of a trauma patient in a methodical fashion to prevent missing fatal injuries. This book covers trauma assessment and injuries in depth, empowering trauma nurses to provide the highest quality care.
Purpose:The goal is to present the information needed by trauma nurses to provide optimal care to trauma patients.
Audience:Based on over 26 years of trauma nursing experience, the author writes a book for other trauma nurses that will sharpen their assessment skills as well as their delivery of care to trauma patients.
Features:The book covers mechanisms of injury, trauma resuscitation and stabilization, trauma systems, special trauma populations, and trauma critical care, as well as environmental and mass casualty incidents. In particular, the signs and symptoms table and the critical life savers table deliver a wealth of easily accessible information. Numerous informative boxes, tables, illustrations, and algorithms deliver the information in an easy to read fashion.
Assessment:This insightful book is extremely easy to navigate from and a valuable resource for trauma nurses.