Author

Skidmore

This portable, up-to-date handbook contains all of the information essential to safe administration of more than 1,300 generic and 4,500 trade name drugs. Thoroughly revised and updated every year, Mosby’s 2004 Nursing Drug Reference features more than 2,000 new drug facts, including revised nursing considerations, patient and family teaching guidelines, and hundreds of newly researched side effects, adverse reactions, precautions, interactions, contraindications, IV therapy facts, and herbal interactions. Many additional features promote safe medication administration and prevention of drug errors.

Proehl

ENA & Newberry

Oman

 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.

Cohen

The dynamic field of trauma nursing has emerged into a specialty that demands a Nursing Secrets book of its own. Trauma Nursing Secrets covers trauma nursing from the pre-hospital phase to the trauma resuscitation area, and follow the patient into the Intensive Care Unit and then into rehabilitation. Specific issues covered include forensics, trauma prevention, system injuries, toxicology in the trauma patient, organ procurement, skin, wounds, and ostomies, and evidenced-based practice.