Foundations of Nursing Practice - Pageburst E-Book on VitalSource, 3rd Edition

1. Patient assessment (how do the scoring systems work and what do they relate to exactly?)
2. Clinical decision making (essential for students who cannot prioritize)
3. The breathless patient / respiratory support
4. The patient with chest pain / cardiac arrest
5. The patient in pain
6. The patient in shock
7. The patient with sepsis and distributive shock
8. The patient with delirium
9. The patient with acute kidney injury
10. The patient with physiological trauma
11. The patient with altered consciousness
12. The patient with an overdose
13. The patient with an endocrine disorder
14. Safe transfer of patients
15. Sudden death and end-of-life care
16. Professionalism, accountability, law and teamwork
17. Vulnerability and safeguarding
18. Human Factors and error in the acute environment
19. Conclusion

Answers to end-of-chapter assessment
Glossary

Fiona Smith, Senior Lecturer Acute Nursing, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK, Emma Briggs, PhD, BSc, RN, PGCAP, Lecturer & King’s Teaching Fellow, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, King's College London, London, UK and Mary Raleigh