Product Description: Professional Practice in Paramedic, Emergency and Urgent Care explores a range of contemporary relevant topics fundamental to professional practice. Written for both pre- and post-registration paramedic students, it is also ideal for existing practitioners looking to develop their CPD skills as well as nursing and other health professionals working in emergency and urgent care settings...read more

Product Description: Initial Management of Acute Medical Patients is a clinically focused, practical and contemporary guide for assessing and managing patients with acute medical conditions. Suitable for all nurses and healthcare practitioners in medical assessment units and medical wards, as well as A&E staff, it uses a structured approach based on common presenting features and focuses on the first 24 hours of the patient's hospital stay...read more

Product Description: Emergency Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! covers the fundamental aspects of emergency care nursing.  Presented in a logical and user-friendly manner, the book has been adapted fully so that the content is placed firmly in the UK context for education and practiceFollowing a systems-based approach, Emergency Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! will ensure nurses have the knowledge and skills to provide the best possible care...read more

This cd-rom contains adult, pediatric and obstetric protocols and their related home care instructions. A rapid-access guide, it helps the nurse to quickly detect the urgency of a caller's problem. Suggests appropriate questions grouped according to degree of urgency, enabling the nurse to recognize who needs immediate medical attention, who should be seen within twenty-four hours, and who can be safely monitored at home. Also addresses legal issues to lessen risks of liability. Format provides setting up of a telephone triage program. Windows / network compatibl

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It is an essential pocket guide for nurses coping with patients with acute medical conditions. It focuses on events within the first critical twenty-four hours of admission and provides an up-to-date, evidence-based guide to the management of these patients. The most common emergency medical conditions are described and explained in terms of the underlying disease mechanisms. The book also describes the assessment, observations and management in relation to disease processes and in line with the latest guidelines and protocols. Nursing care is related to the underlying disease.

The often complex problems of the trauma patient present many challenges to front line emergency staff. Multiple injuries involving many systems of the body require careful and timely prioritisation and intervention in the emergency department. Trauma Care provides emergency nurses with a practical guide to the systematic assessment and management of trauma patients, equipping them with the clinical knowledge and practical skills necessary to initially assess and care for the trauma patient in the emergency department trauma environment. Trauma Care explores the concept of trauma assessment, focusing on patient priorities and interprofessional trauma team working. Individual chapters look at the essential assessment and management issues for each system of the body and specific age related complications. Emphasis is placed on key patient priorities, with acknowledgement to the common pitfalls in initial trauma care. This text will be essential for all emergency nurses, and those working in the emergency department.

Product Description: PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR ACUTE CARE NURSE PRACTITIONERS, 2nd Edition is the only comprehensive clinical reference tailored to the needs of advance practice nurses. With discussions of more than 230 of the most common conditions experienced by adult patients in acute care, this reference includes everything you need on a day-to-day basis...read more

Product Description: This essential resource for nurses offers a thorough understanding of oncologic emergencies. Guiding nurses and other healthcare providers in acute symptom management, chapters provide an in-depth discussion of the 10 most common oncologic emergencies...read more

Product Description: Give your new grads and experienced nurses the confidence and skills they need to be intellectually logical, to think independently, and to display high levels of critical thinking. The ability to think critically is crucial to patient care, and reducing medical errors...read more

Product Description: Competency Management for the Emergency Department is a complete competency program created specifically for assessing, validating, and documenting the skills of your ED nurses. This resource has everything you need to meet and exceed the competency requirements of The Joint Commission and other regulatory bodies...read more

Improved by more than a dozen new exercises, an augmented section on labeling, the simplification of many proofs, and corrections suggested by classroom users and reviewers, this delightful text on graph theory retains and strengthens the appealing features of the original edition. It is an innovative and stimulating view of mathematics designed to appeal to teachers and students alike.Pearls in Graph Theory is based on twenty years of teaching by the leading researcher in graph theory. Unlike most texts on graph theory, this book is written in an informal style suitable for students in a variety of disciplines, though mathematics majors will find the material of sufficient depth and challenge. Covering major topics and theorems in graph theory, the text provides students with a solid foundation while keeping the material enjoyably accessible and entertaining. This course typically draws 50 to 70 students per year at the University of California, San Diego.The concrete nature of the topics, as well as the broad coverage of the field, allow the book to be used for a survey course at smaller schools with no undergraduate courses in graph theory. The only requirement is some mathematical maturity, about the level attained by a successful calculus student. Features over two-dozen new exercises Simplifies proofs wherever possible Incorporates corrections and suggestions from reviewers and classroom students Includes an augmented section on labeling Retains and strengthens appealing features of the original edition

Product Description: This unique text serves as the foundation for pediatric emergency nursing practice and also addresses pediatric trauma care. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)