Critical Care Placements - Rachel Dodd, Rachel Parkinson, Ruth Magowan

Critical Care Placements

A Pocket Guide
Buch | Spiralbindung
100 Seiten
2020
Lantern Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-908625-81-6 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
A pocket-sized guide to help nursing students prepare for their critical care placement.



Clinical placements can be intimidating to the unprepared. This pocket guide is designed to make critical care health placements less stressful and to help student nurses get the most out of their time in the critical care setting.
A pocket-sized guide to help nursing students prepare for their critical care placement.



Critical care placements can be daunting – you’ll be working in a demanding setting and caring for people when they are critically ill and at their most vulnerable. There is a large amount of new information to take in, and newly learned nursing theory to put into practice. This pocket guide is designed to make your placement a less stressful and more rewarding learning experience.



From advanced life support to urinalysis, via myocardial infarction, it’s full of practical detail, hints and tips.



Written by current nursing students and edited by a senior lecturer – this guidance is really produced with you in mind.
Pocket-sized format – carry it with you at all times.
Space to make your own notes – be it new information, unfamiliar terminology, or just the names of your new colleagues


Reduce your stress and make the most of your placement by having this book to hand from the start.



Pocket Guides is a series of handy, pocket-sized books designed to help students make the most of their practice learning experiences.

Ruth is a senior lecturer and currently the programme lead for the Master’s in Nursing at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. It is important to her to continue to practice as a nurse while working as a nurse lecturer, so Ruth also works at the Borders General Hospital as a Paediatric Endocrine Specialist Nurse. She has a background in both paediatric and general nursing including neonatal care, neurology, diabetic care and endocrinology.

Introduction

1. How to use this book

2. Person-centred care



Advanced Life Support and assessments

3. Advanced Life Support

     3.1 Cardiac arrest definition

     3.2 Basic Life Support

     3.3 Management of cardiac arrest

     3.4 Correct placement of defibrillation pads

     3.5 Four Hs and four Ts

     3.6 Effective CPR

4. Assessments

     4.1 ABCDE assessment

     4.2 Trauma assessment



Common conditions in critical care

5. Shock

     5.1 Types of shock

     5.2 Stages of shock

6. Sepsis

     6.1 Signs and symptoms of sepsis

     6.2 Treatment of sepsis

7. Cardiac emergencies

     7.1 Angina

     7.2 Myocardial infarction (MI)

8. Stroke

     8.1 Signs and symptoms of stroke

     8.2 Assessment of stroke

     8.3 Treatment of stroke

9. Fractures

     9.1 Types of fracture

     9.2 Signs and symptoms of fracture

     9.3 Assessment of fracture

     9.4 Treatment of fracture



Toolkit

10. SBAR handover

11. Tests

     11.1 Understanding ABGs

12. GCS and pupil observations

     12.1 GCS

     12.2 Pupil observations

13. Urinalysis

     13.1 Methods of collecting urine

     13.2 Physical appearance

     13.3 Urine analysis

14. ECG types, diagram and reading a rhythm strip

     14.1 Why use cardiac monitoring?

     14.2 3-lead ECG

     14.3 5-lead ECG

     14.4 12-lead ECG

     14.5 Reading a rhythm strip

     14.6 Worked example

15. Shockable and non-shockable rhythms

     15.1 Shockable rhythms

     15.2 Non-shockable rhythms

16. Pain

     16.1 Assessment of pain

     16.2 Managing pain

17. Common groups of medications

18. Difficult conversations

19. Top tips



Resources

20. Quick references

21. Further reading

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Cheltenham
Sprache englisch
Maße 105 x 148 mm
Gewicht 88 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege Ausbildung / Prüfung
Pflege Fachpflege Anästhesie / Intensivmedizin
ISBN-10 1-908625-81-3 / 1908625813
ISBN-13 978-1-908625-81-6 / 9781908625816
Zustand Neuware
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