cover image - Mosby’s Prepare for Clinicals Memory Notecards: Fundamentals, Psychosocial Concepts, & Lab Tests, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780443412387
Copyright: 2028
Page Count: 256
Imprint: Elsevier
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Mosby’s Prepare for Clinicals Memory Notecards: Fundamentals, Psychosocial Concepts, & Lab Tests, 1st Edition

by JoAnn Zerwekh, EdD, MSN, RN, Ashley Zerwekh Garneau, PhD, RN and Tyler Zerwekh, DrPH, MPH, REHS

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ISBN: 9780443412387
Copyright: 2028
Page Count: 256
Imprint: Elsevier
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Nearly 100 flashcards make it fun and easy to review clinical nursing! Mosby’s Prepare for Clinicals Memory Notecards use colorful cartoons, mnemonics, and clear explanations to help you remember important nursing concepts. Breaking down complex topics, notecards progress from the fundamentals of nursing practice to psychosocial concepts, nursing management, and lab test interpretation. A compact size allows convenient study anytime and anywhere, alone or with a group. Created by nursing educators JoAnn Zerwekh, Ashley Zerwekh Garneau, and Tyler Zerwekh, these durable notecards will help you prepare for class, clinicals, or the NCLEX® examination. There’s no other study tool like it!
    • Use of mnemonics and cartoon figures to help you remember information about fundamentals in nursing, psychosocial nursing, nursing management, and laboratory/diagnostic tests
    • Colorful visuals and diagrams that highlight clinical relevance and streamline your review of topics such as heart sounds, patient positioning, postoperative care, the 5 P’s of nursing rounds, and mental health disorders
    • Mnemonics and other proven memory aids designed to boost retention and understanding through acronyms and fun, easy-to-recall associations
    • Comprehensive lab and diagnostic content including blood tests and values, lab cultures, and procedures — explained clearly for real-world application
    • Compact, durable, and portable cards for flexible study sessions
    • Ideal for entry-level nursing courses
  • FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING PRACTICE
    1. 6 P’s of Dyspnea
    2. Activities of Daily Living (ADL's)
    3. Adventitious Breath Sounds
    4. Assisting at the Table Locating Food
    5. Auscultating Heart Sounds
    6. Care of the Chronically Ill Child
    7. Charting Body Fluids — COACH
    8. Clinical Judgment
    9. Day of Surgery Nursing Responsibilities
    10. Dehiscence — Evisceration
    11. Emergency Trauma Assessment
    12. Epidural Analgesia vs. Anesthesia
    13. Five Areas for Listening to the Heart
    14. Hand Hygiene
    15. Heart Sounds
    16. Heat and Cold Applications
    17. Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL's)
    18. Levels of Consciousness
    19. Neurovascular Assessment — 6 P's
    20. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Basic Human Needs
    21. Pain
    22. Patient Positioning
    23. Postop Complications
    24. Postop Nursing Care
    25. Preop Checklist — Day of Surgery
    26. Range of Motion
    27. Shock
    28. SIRES
    29. Special Considerations for Older Adults
    30. Steps in the Nursing Process
    31. Tools of Physical Assessment
    32. Trauma Survey
    33. Types of Exudate
    34. Wound Cleansing

    PSYCHOSOCIAL NURSING CONCEPTS
    35. 3R's in Working with Mental Disability
    36. Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium (DTs)
    37. Alterations of Body Image
    38. Anorexia Nervosa
    39. Assess Cognitive Changes in Dementia (JAMCO)
    40. Basic Components of a Psych Assessment
    41. Bipolar Disorder
    42. Bulimia Nervosa
    43. Child Abuse
    44. Cocaine — Crack Users
    45. Dementia
    46. Depression Assessment
    47. Depression
    48. Eating Disorders
    49. Five A's of Alzheimer Disease
    50. Hallucinations, Illusions, and Delusions
    51. Manic Episode Symptoms
    52. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
    53. Psychiatric Assessment
    54. Psychobehavior Role of the Nurse
    55. Schizophrenia
    56. Suicide Precautions
    57. Sundowning Syndrome

    NURSING MANAGEMENT
    58. 5 P’s Handoff
    59. 5 P’s of Nursing Rounds
    60. Four C's of Initial Direction
    61. Informatics
    62. I-SBAR-R
    63. Prioritization and Delegation
    64. The 10 Supervisory Commandments
    65. Time Out Diagnostic Tests
    66. Bone Densitometry (DEXA Scan)
    67. Bronchoscopy
    68. Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS)
    69. Occult Blood
    70. Spinal Fluid Analysis

    LABORATORY BLOOD TESTS
    71. Ammonia Level
    72. Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN)
    73. Correct Order of The Blood Draw
    74. Creatinine and Creatinine Clearance
    75. Digoxin Level
    76. Fibrinogen
    77. Gamma-Glutamyl Transferase (GGT)
    78. Hematocrit (Hct)
    79. Hemoglobin (Hgb)
    80. Lead
    81. Lipase and Amylase (Serum)
    82. Lipoproteins (LDL-HDL)
    83. Liver Biopsy
    84. Prothrombin (PT) and International Normalized Ratio (INR)
    85. PTT and aPTT
    86. Sodium and Chloride (Serum)
    87. Thyroid Function Tests
    88. TORCH Screening
    89. Type and Crossmatch Blood
    90. Urinalysis
    91. White Blood Cell (WBC) Count

    LABORATORY CULTURES
    92. Blood Cultures
    93. Sputum Cultures
    94. Stool Cultures
    95. Throat Cultures
    96. Urine Cultures
    97. Wound Cultures
  • JoAnn Zerwekh, EdD, MSN, RN, President/CEO, Nursing Education Consultants, Inc., Chandler, Arizona, USA, Ashley Zerwekh Garneau, PhD, RN, Nursing Faculty, Department of Nursing, GateWay Community College, Phoenix, Arizona, USA and Tyler Zerwekh, DrPH, MPH, REHS, Senior Manager, Environmental Health and Safety, North America Facilities, Luminex Corporation, Austin, Texas, USA
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