Trauma Nursing Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 5th Edition

by Karen A. McQuillan, RN, MS, CNS-BC, CCRN, CNRN, TCRN, FAAN, Mary Beth Flynn Makic, PhD, APRN, CCNS, CCRN, FAAN, FNAP, FCNS and Eileen Whalen, RN, BSN, MHA

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource - Access Card

ISBN: 9780323594776

Publication Date: 09-03-2019

Imprint: Saunders

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Key Features
- Comprehensive coverage includes practical, clinically relevant trauma information for nurses at all levels of knowledge and experience working in a variety of settings
- Evidence-based content ensures that you are using the latest and most reliable information available to provide state-of-the-art care for trauma patients
- A user-friendly format, logical organization, and helpful tables and illustrations help you find information quickly and clarify key concepts and procedures
- Detailed information guides you through all phases of care – from preventive care and the time of injury to the resuscitative, operative, critical, intermediate, and rehabilitative stages
- Special populations coverage prepares you to meet the unique needs of pregnant, pediatric, and elderly patients, as well as bariatric patients, burn victims, patients with substance abuse issues, and organ and tissue donors
- A section on Clinical Management Concepts gives you a solid understanding of key issues affecting all patients regardless of their injury, including mechanism of injury, traumatic shock, patient/family psychosocial responses to trauma, pain management, wound healing, and nutrition
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Contents

PART I: General Concepts in Trauma Nursing
1. Evolution of the Trauma Cycle
2. Economic and Administrative Issues in Trauma Care
3. Performance Improvement and Patient Safety in Trauma Care
4. Ethics in Trauma Nursing
5. Legal Concerns in Trauma Nursing
6. Injury Prevention
7. Prehospital Care of the Trauma Patient
8. Trauma in Rural Areas
9. Mass Casualty Incidents
10. Nursing Practice Through the Cycle of Trauma
11. Rehabilitation of the Trauma Patient

PART II: Clinical Management Concepts
12. Mechanism of Injury
13. Shock and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
14. Initial Management of Traumatic Shock
15. Infection and Infection Control
16. Wound Healing and Soft Tissue Injuries
17. Metabolic and Nutritional Management of the Trauma Patient
18. Analgesia, Sedation, and Neuromuscular Blockade in the Trauma Patient
19. Psychosocial Impact of Trauma

PART III: Single System Injuries
20. Traumatic Brain Injuries
21. Maxillofacial Injuries
22. Ocular Injuries
23. Spinal Cord Injuries
24. Thoracic Injuries
25. Abdominal Injuries
26. Genitourinary Injuries and Renal Management
27. Musculoskeletal Injuries

PART IV: Unique Patient Populations
28. The Pregnant Trauma Patient
29. Pediatric Trauma
30. Trauma in the Elderly
31. Trauma in the Bariatric Patient
32. Burn Injuries
33. Substance Abuse and Trauma Care
34. The Organ and Tissue Donor
Authors

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, Mary Beth Flynn Makic, PhD, APRN, CCNS, CCRN, FAAN, FNAP, FCNS, Professor, University of Colorado College of Nursing, Aurora, Colorado; Nurse Scientist, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado, USA and Eileen Whalen, RN, BSN, MHA, Vice President, Trauma, Emergency and Perioperative Services, University Medical Center, Tucson, AZ
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