Handbook of Clinical Nursing: Critical and Emergency Care Nursing

Description

Designed for recently graduated RNs and nurses transitioning to a new clinical area, this extensive clinical reference is the best resource to provide essential information on the critical care and emergency care specialty areas. Concise and practical entries provide fundamental coverage of the most common clinical problems and issues encountered in nursing practice today.

Alphabetized for easy access, each entry includes a definition and description of the clinical problem; etiology; clinical aspects, such as assessment, nursing interventions, management, and implications; and outcomes.

Each entry focuses on the role of the nurse throughout the treatment process, and discusses the role of other health care providers with a focus on multidisciplinary treatment. Handbook of Clinical Nursing: Critical and Emergency Care Nursing will be of value to nursing faculty, undergraduate and graduate-level nurses, and nursing students at all levels.

Entries from this text have been selected from the larger resource, A Guide to Mastery in Clinical Nursing: The Comprehensive Reference.

Key Features:

• Provides essential information on clinical topics pertinent to the critical care and emergency care specialties
• Offers key knowledge for nurses new to practice or working in an unfamiliar nursing area
• Presented in a consistent format for ease of use
• Includes an overview of each specialty area
• Focuses on the role of the nurse throughout the treatment process
• Written and edited by expert clinicians and educators

Table of Contents

1. Contributors
2. Preface
3. Share Handbook of Clinical Nursing: Critical and Emergency Care Nursing
4. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm– Vicki A. Keough
5. Abdominal Pain – Christopher J. Contino
6. Acid–Base Imbalances – Michael D. Gooch
7. Acute Abdomen – Susanna Rudy
8. Acute Coronary Syndrome – Andrea Efre
9. Acute Exacerbation of a Chronic Condition – Brenda L. Douglass
10. Acute Pancreatitis in Adults – Virginia Mangolds
11. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – Kathleen C. Ashton
12. Acute Respiratory Failure – Breanna Hetland
13. Adrenal Insufficiency – Rachel K. Vanek
14. Back Pain – Sharon R. Rainer
15. Burns – Margaret Jean Carman
16. Burns: Classification and Severity – Melanie Gibbons Hallman and Lamon Norton
17. Chest Pain – Sharon R. Rainer
18. Child Abuse and Neglect – Patricia M. Speck, Pamela Harris Bryant, Tedra S. Smith, Sherita K. Etheridge, and Steadman McPeters
19. Clostridium difficile Infection – Anita Sundaresh
20. Continuous Veno-Venous Hemofiltration – an N. Saludares
21. Definitions of Emergency and Critical Care Nursing – Nicole M. Hartman and Courtney Vose
22. Dental Emergencies – Melanie Gibbons Hallman and Lamon Norton
23. Disaster Response – Darlie Simerson
24. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation – Joyce E. Higgins
25. Domestic Violence – Patricia M. Speck, Diana K. Faugno, Rachell A. Ekroos, Melanie Gibbons Hallman, Gwendolyn D. Childs, Tedra S. Smith, and Stacey A. Mitchell
26. Ear, Nose, and Throat Emergencies – Kathleen Bradbury-Golas
27. Elder Abuse and Neglect – Patricia M. Speck, Richard Taylor, Stacey A. Mitchell, Diana K. Faugno, and Rita A. Jablonski-Jaudon
28. Encephalopathy – Deborah Vinesky
29. Endocrine Emergencies – Diane Fuller Switzer
30. Environmental Emergencies – Brittany Newberry
31. Extracorporeal Life Support – Grant Pignatiello, Katherine Hornack, and Julie E. Herzog
32. Fluid and Electrolyte Imbalances – Michael D. Gooch
33. Fluid Resuscitation – Laura Stark Bai
34. Heart Transplantation – Brian Widmar
35. Hepatic Failure – Leon Chen and Fidelindo Lim
36. Hepatitis – Ramona A. Sowers and Linda Carson
37. Hyperglycemia and Hypoglycemia – Laura Stark Bai
38. Crisis and Hypertension – Kathleen Bradbury-Golas
39. Hypothermia – Marian Nowak
40. Integumentary Emergencies – Susanna Rudy
41. Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump – Grant Pignatiello
42. Mental and Behavioral Health Emergencies – Lia V. Ludan
43. Neurotrauma – Anita Sundaresh
44. Obstetrical and Gynecological Emergency Care – Vicki Bacidore
45. Ophthalmic Emergencies – Shannon M. Litten
46. Orthopedic Emergencies in Adults – Cindy D. Kumar
47. Pediatric Emergencies – Rachel Tkaczyk
48. Psychiatric Disorders: Suicide, Homicide, Psychosis – George Byron Peraza-Smith and Yolanda Bone
49. Respiratory Emergencies – Dustin Spencer
50. Return of Spontaneous Circulation With Hypothermia Initiation – Laura Stark Bai
51. Seizures – Eric Roberts
52. Sepsis – Ronald L. Hickman, Jr.
53. Sexual Assault – Patricia M. Speck, Diana K. Faugno, Rachell A. Ekroos, Melanie Gibbons Hallman, Sallie J. Shipman, Martha B. Dodd, Qiana A. Johnson, and Stacey A. Mitchell
54. Shock and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome – Jennifer Wilbeck
55. Solid Organ Transplantation – Marcia Johansson
56. Spinal Cord Injury – Lamon Norton and Melanie Gibbons Hallman
57. Substance Use Disorders and Toxicological Agents – Al Rundio
58. Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm – Megan M. Shifrin and Ronald L. Hickman, Jr.
59. Thrombocytopenia in Adults – Khoa (Joey) Dang
60. Thyroid Crisis – Cynthia Ann Leaver
61. Traumatic Brain Injury – Elizabeth Wirth-Tomaszewski
62. Traumatic Injury – Dustin Spencer
63. Urologic Emergencies – Kelley Toffoli
64. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia – Nancy Jaskowak Cresse
65. Ventricular Assist Devices – S. Brian Widmar
66. The Violent Patient – Janet E. Reilly and Michael Wichowski
67. Index

Editors Biography

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, is Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997. She is also Professor, Department of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. In 1990, Dr. Fitzpatrick received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from her alma mater, Georgetown University. In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from the Frontier University of Nursing. She has received numerous honors and awards; she was elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 1981 and a Fellow in the National Academies of Practice in 1996. She received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 18 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature with over 300 publications. She served as co-editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series, vols. 1-26; she edits the journals Applied Nursing Research, Archives in Psychiatric Nursing, and Nursing Education Perspectives, the official journal of the National League for Nursing. She edited three editions of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (ENR), and a series of nursing research digests

Celeste M. Alfes, DNP, MSN, RN, CNE, CHSE-A, FAAN, is associate professor and director of the Center for Nursing Education, Simulation, and Innovation at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio. She earned a bachelor of science in nursing (University of Akron), master of science in nursing (University of Akron), and doctor of nursing practice (CWRU). With a background in critical care nursing, she has 21 years of experience teaching baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral nursing students. Dr. Alfes has made significant contributions, pioneering simulation training for flight nurses globally including the development of North America’s first high-fidelity helicopter simulator adapted for flight nurse training; consultations to Japan’s first Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Flight Nursing program; and the development of training and research partnerships with the U.S. Air Force and the National Center for Medical Readiness. Under her direction, the Dorothy Ebersbach Academic Center for Flight Nursing at CWRU has had a global impact producing research, scholarly publications, training protocols, and consultations with air medical transport leaders from academia, practice, industry, and military sectors. Dr. Alfes has been a coinvestigator on funded research projects with the Laerdal Foundation of Norway, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, and the MedEvac Foundation International to improve air medical and critical care transport nurse training nationally. Dr. Alfes is a visiting professor at the University of L’Aquila in Italy and Aichi Medical University in Japan; a National League for Nursing Simulation Leader; and serves on the governance board of the Society for Simulation and Health Care and the editorial board of Applied Nursing Research. She is a reviewer for the National Science Foundation and a regular contributor for the journals Nursing Education Perspectives, Clinical Simulation in Nursing, and Air Medical Journal.

Ronald L. Hickman, Jr., PhD, RN, ACNP-BC, FNAP, FAAN, is an associate professor and a board-certified acute care nurse practitioner at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio.