Emergency Nursing Secrets

Using the popular question-and-answer format of "The Secrets" series, this helpful resource offers practical tips, answers, and secrets from expert emergency nurses. Chapters include concepts that inform emergency nursing practice, including patient advocacy, family involvement, collaborative practice, patient teaching, ethical decision-making, and evidence-based practice. The nuts and bolts of emergency nursing are addressed in 35 chapters on topics such as, triage, disaster management, abdominal pain, respiratory distress, shock, spinal cord injury, and burns to name just a few. From caring for a woman who suffers a miscarriage to balancing the competing priorities during trauma resuscitation, to making changes that better the plight of the undeserved, these nurses have captured the knowledge, enthusiasm, and heart of what emergency nursing is all about.