**American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards, 1st Place in Critical Care- Emergency Nursing, 2023**
**Selected for Doody's Core Titles(R) 2024 in Emergency Care**

Sheehy's Manual of Emergency Care, 8^th Edition offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the essentials emergency nurses need to know. Each condition commonly seen in the emergency setting is thoroughly addressed, from signs and symptoms, to diagnosis, treatment, developmental considerations, patient education, and more. Updated material and easy-to-reference contents make this resource a must-have for current practice.

• Quick-reference format is ideal for updating emergency nursing knowledge and improving patient care.
• Detailed discussions for each condition include signs and symptoms, diagnosis/diagnostic testing, treatment/interventions, age/developmental considerations, and patient/family education/discharge instructions.
• Authorship from the Emergency Nurses Association for more than 30 years ensures this book is a mainstay for best practices in emergency nursing.
• Content presented in a bulleted format provides quick and easy access to vital information.
• Practice points highlighted in special boxes offer quick reference to important content.

• NEW! Restructured table of contents presents anatomically related medical and trauma chapters sequentially for quick reference.
• NEW! Considerations for critical care in the ED.
• NEW! Considerations for the transgender patient.
• NEW! Section on human trafficking in the Interpersonal Violence and Abuse chapter.
• NEW! Section on violent risk assessment in the Workplace Violence chapter.
• NEW! Color photos insert visually highlights and clarifies key content.
• EXPANDED! Substance Abuse and Addiction Emergencies chapter covers methamphetamines, bath salts, marijuana edibles, opioid abuse/prescription drug abuse, heroin/Narcan, and substance abuse disorder.
• EXPANDED! Chapter on end-of-life includes information on palliative care considerations.
• UPDATED! Infectious Diseases chapter addresses coronavirus 19 (COVID-19), Ebola, and vector-borne malaria.

This bestselling resource has successfully prepared thousands of ER nurses to provide safe, effective, and high-quality care to their patients. This new edition is updated with guidelines from the American Heart Association, Neonatal Resuscitation Program, American Stroke Association, Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course, and Trauma Nurse Core Course. This guide presents the most current information on medications, street drugs, the opioid crisis, and intraosseous access. Chapters are replete with new case studies, updated photos, and time-tested tips.

This Fast Facts guide is written in bullet-point format and is alphabetically organized by disease and disorder within each body system to emphasize easy access and at-a-glance viewing. All chapters list relevant materials, equipment and drugs; and each diagnosis includes its definition, causes, signs and symptoms, and interventions. Helpful appendices display common abbreviations and lab values, EKG rhythms, frequently used medications, and updated alphabetized skills checklists for self-examination.

New to the Fourth Edition:

• New content on administering Alteplase, coronaviruses, decompression sickness, high altitude illness, human trafficking, influenza, lightning injuries, osteomyelitis, parasitic and insect infestations, post-birth warning signs, post-cardiac arrest care, rhabdomyolysis, status asthmaticus, and triage legal issues.
• Updates on infectious disease emergencies, disaster response emergencies, environmental emergencies, and OB/GYN emergencies
• New information on fluid and electrolyte imbalance
• Shock and Multisystem Trauma divided into two expanded chapters
• Updated with useful tricks of the trade and 'survival tips'
• New knowledge on street drugs including vaping, concentrated marijuana, and the opioid crisis

Key Features:

• Educates new ER nurses and their preceptors on the most common injuries and illnesses they will encounter
• Comes in handy pocket size for reference on the go
• Provides easy referral to equipment, medications, procedures, and specialty care
• Delivers hands-on teaching strategies for instructors

From the Basics to Advanced techniques 3rd Edition for 2016 is New and Greatly Expanded with over 120 pages of text, graphics and illustrations to help you start IVs

Intravenous cannulation is one of the most difficult skills most RNs, LVNs and EMTs will learn. If you are scared out of your mind about starting IVs, you are not alone. It is an invasive and often painful procedure that requires both skill and practice to master.

Maybe you are worried about hurting your patient. Or perhaps you are afraid of appearing incompetent in front of the patient if you are unsuccessful. All too often it seems easier to just ask someone else.

Like any skill, some will be better than others. Some will learn faster, others it will take more time. Our goal is to provide you a RAPID and EASY way to master the IV stick Not everyone will become an expert, and that's OK. But at a minimum, we want to impart every professional with the skill and confidence to start a routine, uncomplicated IV in their patient.

Whether you are a new-grad who needs the essentials or a seasoned professional looking to learn some advanced techniques, everyone can always learn something new.

In depth review of the following:

• Basics to Advanced Techniques
• Over 120 pages of text, graphics and pictures
• Gauges-choosing the correct gauge
• Basic anatomy and physiology of veins
• Strategies to distend veins and make them Pop Out
• How to choose veins which to avoid
• A colorful, illustrated step-by-step guide to starting a standard IV
• 4 methods to threading the catheter
• 3 approaches to inserting the needle
• Guide to the Floating technique
• Visual guide to what you are doing wrong when a vein blows
• Finding and avoiding valves
• The Y-Bifurcation
• Inserting IVs in the elderly
• Vesicant medications
• Assortment of tips and tricks

By the end you will have not just the skills to start an IV, but the confidence to go out there and give each patient your two best shots.

Example Chapter

Threading the catheter

At this point both the tip of the needle and the tip of the catheter are inside the vein. You will now need to thread the rest of the catheter into the vein. The catheter is fully inside the vein when only the hub sticks out. There are several different methods to advancing the catheter

The Two Handed Technique

1. You have already visualized flash, lowered your angle, advanced 1-2mm and released the tourniquet.
2. Continue holding the needle in place
3. With your non-dominant hand, grasp the hub of the catheter and slide it forward into the vein
4. Slowly withdraw the needle
5. Place your thumb on the hub of the catheter to hold it in place
6. Use your index finger to press down above the site to prevent blood from spilling out

The Single Handed Technique

1. You have already visualized flash, lowered your angle, advanced 1-2mm and released the tourniquet.
2. Continue holding the needle in place.
3. Use the index finger of the hand that is holding the needle to slide the catheter past the needle
4. Continue sliding the catheter until it is fully inside the vein.

With the above two techniques, be careful that you are only advancing the catheter into the vein and not the needle. If the catheter is inside the vein it should be relatively easy and painless to advance it. Unlike the needle, the catheter is soft and flexible so it will be difficult to slide it in unless you are inside the vein.

• If the flashback was very small, you may feel resistance...

Puts vital, streamlined information at your fingertips to promote lifesaving care

This concise resource delivers the specific knowledge nurses need in their daily practice to care for trauma patients safely and effectively. Fast Facts for Trauma Nursing provides a detailed overview of key trauma-related care issues while distilling critical elements of emergency and trauma care after resuscitation. Organized in a systems-based format, the book stresses evidence-based treatments and nursing interventions for best practice and patient care.

The resource--written by experienced trauma nurse clinicians--focuses on the approach to and care of the trauma patient from arrival to the hospital through discharge. Included is a review of mechanism of injury issues and traumatic injuries, as well as the key elements of primary, secondary, and tertiary surveys. This new resource highlights the unique physiological and psychological needs of the trauma patient while considering how social determinants of health can bear on trauma in individuals. It also focuses on the maintenance of spinal precautions, preventing secondary brain injuries, and monitoring patients for complications of trauma, including acute kidney injury, adult respiratory distress syndrome, compartment syndrome and rhabdomyolysis.. With its clear narrative and easy-to-access design and format, this new book will appeal to all levels of nurses who care for trauma patients along with those studying for specialized trauma certification exams. Purchase includes online access via most mobile devices or computers.

Key Features:

• Delivers--in quick-access format--information nurses can put to use immediately
• Highlights key trauma care knowledge and its practical applications
• Offers key guidelines of what and how to communicate with trauma care providers
• Provides an overview of specific requirements for hospitals to maintain trauma center status

Awarded third place in the 2023 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Critical Care-Emergency Nursing.

Provides critical information to help healthcare providers ensure patient safety by preventing misses or near-misses

Newly updated, this life-saving pocket-sized clinical manual guides triage nurses to rapidly recognize life-threatening or life-altering conditions. The second edition delivers new chapters on endocrine emergencies, hematologic and oncologic emergencies, sexual assault and intimate partner violence, and human trafficking. Pediatric and older adult chapters offer extensive new information on assessment, triage pearls, and key tips for age-related emergencies. Also included is updated STEMI, Stroke, and Sepsis guidelines.

Focusing on patient-driven chief complaints, this resource provides a wealth of concise information covering each body system along with first-line questions, assessments, and interventions to determine the patient's level of urgency, sick versus not sick. Prominent icons denote critical signs and symptoms and deliver invaluable information from experienced triage/ED nurses. Content encompasses triage, waiting room and legal issues, high-risk medical conditions, and special issues in emergency care. Including action steps to aid in prioritizing during a crisis, the resource covers trauma, burns, active shooter/active threat, and emergency management during a disaster. Reference tables and checklists facilitate at-a-glance retrieval of crucial information. Opportunities for customization include space for taking notes, inscribing important phone numbers, and pasting facility-specific policies/procedures.

New to the Second Edition:

• New chapters addressing endocrine emergencies, hematologic and oncologic emergencies, sexual assault and intimate partner violence, and human trafficking
• Expanded content in the triage, pediatric, and older adult chapters
• Enhanced red flags, triage considerations, and key tips, along with updates to the screening tools
• Reformatted and condensed chief complaint layout throughout the book to increase accessibility of information
• Worst-case scenarios to consider throughout each body system chapter
• Access to the Pediatric Assessment Triangle and pediatric vital signs and detailed information for performing the A-B-C-D-E assessment

Key Features:

• Expedites critical decision-making with quick access to key reference material
• Delivers information honed from decades of combined emergency nursing experience
• Uses icons to quickly direct the user to relevant content areas
• Enhances clinical judgment with essential tips regarding common chief complaints
• Sheds light on complex issues with unique patient presentations
• Highlights key pediatric and older-adult considerations
• Covers disaster response and active shooter/violent situation action steps
• Access to blank pages for customizing the book to meet individual needs

ACLS Review Made Incredibly Easy!, 4th Edition is packed with easy-to-remember definitions and step-by-step directions on the latest algorithms giving you the confidence you need to pass the ACLS certification exam as well as the knowledge and skills needed to perform advanced cardiac life support.

Allow ACLS Review Made Incredibly Easy to guide you through the latest ACLS training and exam preparations with:

• NEW and updated American Heart Association Guidelines with illustrations
• NEW and updated cardiovascular pharmacology content - including the action, indication, dosages, and precautions for the major drugs used during ACLS
• NEW and updated interventions
• NEW and updated CPR skills with illustrations
• Explanation of the ACLS course and exam components
• Devices and procedure skills - including ventilation techniques, endotracheal intubation, and supraglottic devices as well as pacemakers, defibrillators, and more!
• Identification of which cardiac rhythms may require ACLS treatment
• Skills required for the first 30 minutes of cardiac emergencies
• Management of specific rhythms - hypovolemia, hypoxia, acidosis, hypothermia, cardiac tamponade, tension pneumothorax, pulmonary coronary thrombosis, and more
• Dozens of 4 color diagrams and illustrations that outline the core concepts and skills needed for ACLS certification.

When reading real-life stories about nursing, you might not expect mentions of fox fur coats or cages full of snakes (five feet long and very skinny). Yet these amusing vignettes sit alongside harrowing tales of plane crashes and time-honoured memories of Florence Nightingale. Front Line Nursing Stories is a compelling anthology of first-hand accounts longtime nurse and author Marian Facciolo collected from women who have worked in hospitals, care homes, communities, and prisons from the 1940s to present day, coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.

The substance of these stories remain faithful to the nursing profession, without venturing too deep into technical terminology. At the same time, Facciolo asks readers to consider whether supports for the increased expectations of the profession (education, skills, workload) have kept pace. Front Line Nursing Stories is an eye-opening look at the evolution of healing as a profession, poignantly and pointedly shared through the eyes of women who have helped babies draw their first breaths and comforted palliative patients so they can die with dignity.

Facciolo's book, at its core, is a tribute to the power of compassion and humanity, perhaps at a time in the world when it is needed most.

Prepare for certification as a flight and ground transport nurse! ASTNA: Patient Transport: Principles & Practice, 6th Edition addresses the scenarios and injuries commonly encountered in transport nursing, and provides a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind study tool for taking certification exams including the CFRN^(R), CTRN^(R), FP-C^(R), and CCP-C^(R). Coverage includes the role of air and ground transport personnel, along with topics such as transport physiology, communications, teamwork, safety, airway management, shock, and the different types of trauma. New to this edition is an Aviation for Medical Personnel chapter. Written by the Air & Surface Transport Nurses Association, this resource helps you gain the knowledge and skills you need to succeed on your exam and to transport patients safely.

• In-depth coverage of expert care delivery in transport meets the needs of all healthcare providers including registered nurses, paramedics, physicians, respiratory therapists, pilots, mechanics, and communication specialists.
• Real-life scenarios demonstrate how to apply concepts to situations similar to those seen in practice.
• Information on important safety regulations is based on the latest updates from the Federal Aviation Association and the National Transportation Safety Board.
• Coverage of injuries commonly encountered in flight and ground nursing includes discussions of pathophysiology, assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• Detailed coverage of management issues include scene management, communication, safety, disaster management/triage, quality management, and marketing/public relations.
• Focus on interprofessionalism and collaboration emphasizes the importance of teamwork in ensuring successful patient outcomes.
• Evolve website includes 350 questions and answers mapped to the CRFN^(R)/CTRN^(R) exams for additional preparation.

• NEW! New Aviation for Medical Personnel chapter is written from the perspective of a veteran transport pilot, and provides valuable information on the idiosyncrasies, tips, and tricks about transport aircraft transport.
• NEW! Updated and new content on diversity and inclusion covers this timely issue - both among colleagues and patients.
• NEW! Additional information on technology used in transport nursing/critical care includes topics such as point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS).
• NEW! Content on COVID-19 as it relates to trauma transport is included.
• NEW! More philosophical, psychological, and wellness-associated content is added.

Crisis medication, clinical specialty underlining the promptness of treatment of intensely sick or harmed people.
Among the variables that affected the development of crisis medication was the rising specialization in different areas of medication. With the shift away from general practice - particularly in metropolitan communities - the trauma center became for some, essentially, an essential wellspring of medical care.

A Davis's Notes title!

The pocket guide that covers it all--basics, 12-lead, ACLS, meds, and CPR for adults and children!
A quick look-up reference for ECG interpretation and management! This indispensable pocket guide presents the basics (anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system, electrical conduction system of the heart, basic ECG concepts and components, ) ACLS and CPR algorithms, emergency medications, and comprehensive information on monitoring leads and interpretation of over 100 ECG strips, including 12-lead and pacemaker rhythms.

See what practitioners and students are saying about the previous edition...

Worth every penny!! Bought this to keep in my lab coat to help me interpret ECGs. It is absolutely perfect. Has several different rhythms and 50 practice questions. It's also waterproof and tear proof. Wish I bought it sooner.--Online Reviewer

If you are trying to learn EKG, this is a must have!! Really convenient tool to learn from. Easy to navigate.--Emily, L., Online Reviewer

Great for nursing students and RNs. As a nurse educator (and earlier a staff RN) I made these required reading for my students. Their small size with spiral binding make them useful well beyond graduation.--Barbara R., Online Reviewer

Perfect Pocket reference. For those of us that don't always remember every detail of EKGs, and need some help on the fly, this book is perfect. I can fit it in my pocket and pull for reference whenever I need. I have already recommended it to many of my colleagues.--Online Reviewer

Nurses must deliver up-to-date, clinically effective, evidence-based care across a range of settings and develop nursing services to meet changing demands. The revised and expanded Oxford Handbook of Cardiac Nursing 3rd edition is tailored to provide the essential knowledge nurses need; at their fingertips when they need it.

This handbook will guide the reader systematically through the care of patients with a wide range of cardiac problems. Each chapter contains the up to date evidence-based guidelines for cardiac conditions and treatments. It now includes new topics such as stroke, genetics, computed tomography coronary angiogram. Valvular heart disease has been expanded, as well as the chapter on congenital heart disease and inherited cardiac conditions. Providing key summaries of common problems and essential issues, it will provide both an invaluable reference for cardiac nurses, as well as a precise, targeted guide for nurses from other specialties caring for patients with cardiac problems.

Emergency Nurses Association Media Award

Media Award: Fast Facts for the Triage Nurse: An Orientation and Care Guide, 2nd Edition - Lynn Sayre Visser, MSN, RN, PHN, CEN, CPEN and Anna Montejano, DNP, RN, PHN, CEN, of California

https: //www.ena.org/press-room/2019/06/13/former-ena-president-receives-emergency-nurses-association-s-most-prestigious-award

1st Edition Winner of the AJN Book of the Year Award for Emergency/Critical Care Nursing

This authoritative orientation guide for new and seasoned nurses, preceptors, educators, management teams, urgent care staff, pre-hospital personnel, and anyone working in the triage arena presents essential information to access quickly and repeatedly. Patients rarely present to triage with a diagnosis, but rather convey a multitude of complaints, signs, and symptoms. It is the job of the triage nurse to identify serious red flag presentations hidden among all this information while delivering individualized care and juggling wait times in often overcrowded emergency departments.

Fast Facts for the Triage Nurse, Second Edition, retains its key focus on numerous aspects of triage for emergency department and urgent care settings, from orientation, to front-end processes, to clinical practice and nursing essentials. With real-life examples, the chapters detail a multitude of clinical presentations and include procedures and protocols that the triage nurse implements in daily practice. This newly revised and updated edition covers how to build confidence in the triage role, accurately assess patient presentations, reduce personnel and hospital liability, increase patient and staff satisfaction, and, ultimately, deliver quality patient care that supports best outcomes.

5 New Chapters in the Second Edition:

• Active Shooter/Active Violence
• Emergency Management for When Disaster Strikes
• Triage Competency
• Pain Management
• Endocrine Emergencies

Key Features:

• Covers essential clinical information in an easy-to-read format
• Focuses on processes, patient and staff safety, legalities, documentation, and critical thinking at triage
• Addresses specific patient populations including pediatric, older adult, human trafficking, military personnel, and more
• Offers guidance from seasoned emergency department nurses and triage educators

What a wonderful resource!--Doody's Medical Reviews

The 4th Edition is unique in recognizing the rapid changes in both the causes of crises and the latest attempts to provide timely multidisciplinary approaches to the practice of this growing specialty...Evident throughout this edition is the call to identify crisis leadership among the increasingly talented base of nurses who have responsibility to move the profession to recognize and accept that they can be advocates for better planning, coordination, education and training.

- Frederick M. Burkle, Jr., MD, MPH, DTM, PhD(Hon.), FAAP, FACEP

Senior Fellow & Scientist, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University & T.C. Chan School of Public Health

From the Foreword

This impressive edition builds upon the solid foundation of the first three award-winning editions with an expanded focus on climate change related disasters, globalization and its implications for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, the accommodation of high-risk, high-vulnerability populations, and the potential for disaster arising from a world witnessing increasing community violence and civil unrest.

-Patricia M. Davidson, PhD, MED, RN, FAAN

Professor & Dean, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

From the Foreword

The contributing authors read like a Who's Who of disaster leaders. They lend their special expertise and insights, which are supported and elucidated by cogent learning strategies in the use of case studies, student questions, and packed content in all areas of disaster participation, preparedness, policies, and research. For over 16 years [this book] has been the hallmark text in its field and this edition proves to be the best ever.

-Loretta C. Ford, RN, PNP, EdD

Dean Emeritus, University of Rochester School of Nursing

Founder of the National Nurse Practitioner Program

Member, National Women's Hall of Fame

Featuring the most current, valid, and reliable evidence-based content available, this three-time AJN winner once again presents an unparalleled resource for disaster and emergency preparedness. Disasters lay heavy burdens upon healthcare systems that stretch all levels of society. While natural and man-made disasters are not new, the global nature, rate, type, and totality of their impact has only increased. The fourth edition of this foundational text uniquely addresses the rapid changes in these crises and analyzes the latest attempts to provide timely, multidisciplinary healthcare.

Nurses consistently comprise seventy or more percent of responders to local, national, regional, and global crises, and represent a potentially untapped resource to achieve surge capacity goals and optimize population health outcomes. Considering recent world events and increasing geopolitical tensions, Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness, Fourth Edition now features expanded content on the ubiquitous threat of terrorism, potential detonation of thermonuclear weapons, emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, and increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters from climate change.

This text promotes competency-based expert nursing care during disasters and positive health outcomes for small and large populations consistent with the Federal Disaster Response Framework. Whenever possible, content is mapped to published core competencies for preparing health professions' students for response to terrorism, disaster events, and public health emergencies. The fourth edition retains the clearly organized format in each chapter that includes an overview, learning objectives, a summary, and case study with reflective questions.

New to the Fourth Edition:

• Addresses the most recent landmark agreements
• Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, and the Paris Climate Agreement
• Covers public health emergencies involving community violence and civil unrest
• Expands coverage of planning for and accommodating high-risk, high-vulnerability populations
• Aligns with the U.S. National Health Security Strategy and the National Planning Frameworks
• Provides focused content on medical countermeasures
• Includes an improved instructor package with guide, PowerPoint slides, and case studies with questions for reflection in every chapter

Note to Readers: Publisher does not guarantee quality or access to any included digital components if book is purchased through a third-party seller.

A comprehensive, step-by-step, well-illustrated introduction to common clinical procedures

This text is a user-friendly guide to performing 77 clinical procedures, ranging from those commonly performed to those infrequently called upon when minutes count in emergency, urgent, and primary care settings. This heavily updated third edition includes current and comprehensive text, graphic, and video instruction on the use of bedside ultrasound for procedural guidance in order to increase procedural accuracy and mitigate complications. Edited and written by academically accomplished physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners, an interprofessional approach to the performance of procedures is highlighted throughout the book.

Procedures are consistently formatted and presented in clear language with step-by-step detail organized by system-specific categories for easy access to information. Each procedure includes background considerations, indications & contraindications for performing the procedure, technique for safe and correct performance, special considerations, complications, post-procedure considerations, and patient education points. Original photos, videos, high quality sonographic footage, line drawings, and tables reinforce the guidelines and procedures. Abundant Clinical Pearls throughout the manuscript offer practical applications of key information representing years of clinical technical experience. Extensive references at the end of each chapter further enhance the book's utility

New to the Third Edition:
• Delivers 16 completely new chapters covering a plethora of newly added procedures, incorporating an interprofessional approach to performing procedures
• Previous chapters have been extensively updated and expanded
• Provides new illustrative videos
• Presents a corresponding list of CPT codes

Key Features:
• Delivers current, concise, step-by-step information for performing 77 commonly and less commonly used clinical procedures
• Provides abundant four-color photos and figures illustrating each procedure
• Organized by body system to provide fast access to key information
• Enriched with point of care ultrasound guided procedures
• Thoroughly introduces and teaches sonography at the most fundamental level as an important tool to enhance accuracy of procedures
• Reflects latest guidelines and evidence-based practice
• Includes prominently displayed links to numerous videos throughout the text
• Includes 12 months' free Springer Connect Digital Access with print purchase!

Ms. Grossman knows and understands what radiology nurses want and need to know to provide the best patient care and to be a member of a productive team.

-Kathleen A. Gross, MSN, RN-BC, CRN

From the Foreword

The second edition of this pocket-sized resource for radiology nurses continues to demystify complex procedures by providing concise yet comprehensive information on the basics of radiology. As the complexity of healthcare grows, so too does imaging ability. Different modalities, technologies, and skills levels must all work in harmony to provide precision images. Radiology nurses must be proactive, patient-focused, and able to work with a diverse team of individuals to care for the widest range of patients.

Describing essential procedures and protocols in quick access style, Fast Facts for the Radiology Nurse, Second Edition covers over 50 different Interventional Radiology procedures. Woven throughout is an emphasis on interprofessional care and effective communication along with guidance on forming and maintaining a high-performing team. Abundant Clinical Pearls disseminate the hard-earned wisdom of expert radiology nurses. Extensively updated with the most current guidelines and protocols, the second edition presents four completely new chapters on Legal Issues Affecting Radiology, Strategies for Working with Difficult People, Safety and Quality in the Radiology Setting, and Emergency Management and Catastrophe Response.

New to the Second Edition:
• Updated with the most current guidelines and protocols
• New chapter: Legal Issues Affecting Radiology
• New chapter: Strategies for Working with Difficult People
• New chapter: Safety and Quality in the Radiology Setting
• New chapter: Emergency Management and Catastrophe Response
• Updated information on sedation and analgesia in easy-to-read tables

Key Features:
• Serves as an accessible, easy-to-use reference for practicing radiology nurses and orientees
• Highlights essential protocols and procedures with bullets and short paragraphs
• Provides abundant Fast Facts boxes displaying key information
• Discusses strategies for providing safe care
• Includes clinical pearls from radiology experts
• Addresses patient care in all radiology domains and with specific patient populations
• Covers vascular access issues and emergency situations

Test Prep Books' CEN Study Guide: Certified Emergency Nurse Review Book and Practice Exam Questions [Updated for the New Outline]

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• Subarea I-Cardiovascular Emergencies
• Subarea II-Respiratory Emergencies
• Subarea III-Neurological Emergencies
• Subarea IV-Gastrointestinal, Genitourinary, Gynecology, and Obstetrical
• Subarea V-Mental Health Emergencies
• Subarea VI-Medical Emergencies
• Subarea VII-Musculoskeletal and Wound Emergencies
• Subarea VII-Maxillofacial and Ocular Emergencies
• Subarea IV-Environment and Toxicology Emergencies, and Communicable Diseases
• Subarea X-Professional Issues Nurse, Patient, System, and Triage
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• Detailed Answer Explanations Figure out where you went wrong and how to improve!

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When reading real-life stories about nursing, you might not expect mentions of fox fur coats or cages full of snakes (five feet long and very skinny). Yet these amusing vignettes sit alongside harrowing tales of plane crashes and time-honoured memories of Florence Nightingale. Front Line Nursing Stories is a compelling anthology of first-hand accounts longtime nurse and author Marian Facciolo collected from women who have worked in hospitals, care homes, communities, and prisons from the 1940s to present day, coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.

The substance of these stories remain faithful to the nursing profession, without venturing too deep into technical terminology. At the same time, Facciolo asks readers to consider whether supports for the increased expectations of the profession (education, skills, workload) have kept pace. Front Line Nursing Stories is an eye-opening look at the evolution of healing as a profession, poignantly and pointedly shared through the eyes of women who have helped babies draw their first breaths and comforted palliative patients so they can die with dignity.

Facciolo's book, at its core, is a tribute to the power of compassion and humanity, perhaps at a time in the world when it is needed most.

The Code, cardiopulmonary arrest and resuscitation, is emblematic of the greatest challenge and most stressful situation for nurses and other members of the health care team. Stress and sub-optimal outcomes are rarely the result of motivation or technical skills. It is a lack of training and experience with mental toughness or psychological performance skills that degrade performance at these times. The Code Calm Mindset gathers information on these essential psychological and consolidates them for nurses and nursing students to help maximize their confidence at such critical times. The information here is applicable to all medical emergencies, aspects of nursing care, and nurses' personal lives.

Acute Care for Nurses

A practical handbook to boost your confidence with assessment techniques and key clinical skills when administering effective acute care

This helpful revision tool was developed to assist healthcare workers in the field of acute care, at a time when healthcare professionals have been under more pressure than ever before. In Acute Care for Nurses, readers will find:

• A revision of medicines management formulas, plus advanced formulas seen in a clinical setting, with chapters on sepsis and conflict resolution
• Assessment techniques and the individual components of the ABCDE assessment, covering vital signs, clinical observation at superficial and more in-depth levels, and clinical actions
• Higher skills, such as caring for the ventilated patient and fluid resuscitation in adults and children, and subcutaneous fluid hydration
• Critical care simulation and need-to-know medical abbreviations, plus three helpful appendices containing tool kits and charts

Acute Care for Nurses is a must-have resource for nursing students, including nursing associates, registered nurses and midwives, assistant practitioners and senior healthcare assistants, return to practice nurses, overseas nurses and anyone else requiring acute clinical skills and assessment techniques.