Trauma Nursing: From Resuscitation Through Rehabilitation (5th Edition)

Description

Learn to provide state-of-the-art care to any patient in any setting with the most comprehensive trauma nursing resource available. Using the unique cycles of trauma framework, Trauma Nursing: From Resuscitation Through Rehabilitation, 5^th Edition features coverage of cutting-edge research findings and current issues, trends, and controversies in trauma nursing. The thoroughly updated fifth edition guides you through all phases of care – from preventive care and the time of injury to the resuscitative, operative, critical, intermediate, and rehabilitative stages. Plus, new chapters address unique trauma patient populations including pregnant women, children, the elderly, bariatric individuals, burned patients, those with a history of substance abuse and organ donors. With timely discussions on emerging topics such as mass casualty events and rural trauma, this is the most complete resource available for both students and experienced trauma nurses.

New to this Edition

• NEW! Information on a team-centered, interdisciplinary approach to care.
• NEW! Up-to-date evidence-based information about issues that affect trauma care systems, includes injury pathophysiology, and state-of-the-art care for the trauma patient during all phases of care.
• NEW! All new content includes information on cultural sensitivity, care for caregivers, and how to handle self-harm injuries and suicide.
• NEW! Certification review questions help you to prepare for certification by listing the correct answers and rationales.
• NEW! Current recommendations for measuring fluid administration responsiveness.

Key Features

• UPDATED! Disaster preparedness, response and recovery for mass casualty incidents prepares students to act quickly and confidently in the event of a disaster, with guidelines for initial response and sustained response.
• UPDATED! The latest sepsis protocols, opioid use and pain/sedation protocols, and treating injured patients with diabetes.
• Special populations coverage prepares you to meet the needs of unique trauma patient populations including pregnant women, children, the elderly, bariatric individuals, burn patients, those with a history of substance abuse and organ donors.
• Coverage of specific issues that affect all patients regardless of their injury, gives you a solid understating of mechanism of injury, traumatic shock, patient/family psychosocial responses to trauma, pain, anxiety, delirium and sleep management; infection; wound healing, and nutrition.
• Tables and illustrations throughout add clarity to the content being discussed.

Table of Contents

1. Part I: General Concepts in Trauma Nursing
   1. Evolution of the Trauma Cycle and Nursing Practice Through the Cycle of Trauma
   2. Economic and Administrative Issues in Trauma Care
   3. Performance Improvement and Patient Safety in Trauma Care
   4. Ethics and Legal Issues in Trauma Nursing (gender identity)
   5. Injury Prevention
   6. Prehospital Care of the Trauma Patient (include Rural)
   7. Mass Casualty Incidents
   8. Rehabilitation of the Trauma Patient
2. Part II:  Clinical Management Topics 
   1. Mechanism of Injury
   2. Traumatic Shock
   3. Infection and Infection Control
   4. Wound Healing and Soft Tissue Injuries (Reduce cellular)
   5. Metabolic and Nutritional Management of the Trauma Patient (reduce)
   6. Pain, Anxiety, Delirium and Sleep Management
   7. Psychosocial Impact of Trauma on the Patient, Family and Caregiver (PTSD, Burnout, Resilience, PICS)
3. Part III:  Single System Injuries 
   1. Traumatic Brain Injuries
   2. Maxillofacial Trauma
   3. Ocular Injuries
   4. Spinal Cord Injuries
   5. Thoracic Trauma
   6. Abdominal Injuries
   7. Genitourinary Injuries and Renal Management
   8. Musculoskeletal Injuries
4. Part IV:  Unique Patient Populations
   1. The Pregnant Trauma Patient
   2. Trauma in the Pediatric Patient
   3. Trauma In the Elderly
   4. Trauma In the Bariatric Patient
   5. Burn Injuries
   6. Substance Abuse and Trauma Care
   7. The Organ and Tissue Donor
5. Part V:  Answers to Review Questions

Authors Biography

Karen A. McQuillan, RN, MS, CNS-BC, CCRN, CNRN, TCRN, FAAN, Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD and

Mary Beth Flynn Makic, PhD, RN, CCNS, FAAN, FNAP, FCNS, Professor, University of Colorado College of Nursing, Aurora, Colorado; Nurse Scientist, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado

Mary Beth Flynn Makic (NOTE: Makic is pronounced “MOCK-itch”) has more than 30 years of critical care experience in research, evidence-based practice, and clinical education. She is a Professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing and Program Director for the Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist graduate program. She is also a Research Scientist at a Level I trauma center in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Makic achieved her BSN from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. She completed her Masters of Science at the University of Maryland at Baltimore with a focus on trauma patient populations and the advanced practice role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist. Her PhD was conferred in 2007 by the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. She is active locally and nationally in several professional organizations. She recently served on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. She also serves on the editorial board of several critical care journals, has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and is a successor co-author of two Elsevier books on nursing diagnosis. Dr. Makic is well known for her passion for improving patient outcomes and nursing practice through evidence-based practice.