Description
This volume of the new Nursing Know-How series offers how-to guidance on the latest techniques for evaluating over 250 important signs and symptoms. Each sign or symptom is presented on a page or two-page spread in bulleted format. Numerous illustrations and flow charts complement the text.
Know-How Nugget icons offer expert tips for eliciting or assessing a sign or symptom. Case Clip icons present real-life responses to an urgent sign or symptom—the nurse's assessment findings and the rapid response team's interventions. Quick Action! icons present urgent responses to an alarming sign or symptom and interventions for avoiding a life-threatening emergency.
Features
--Coverage of about 200 important signs and symptoms
--A-to-Z organization
--Open, bulleted format
--Overview/definition of the sign or symptom and its significance
--Assessment: history and physical examination findings
--Medical causes, with their cluster of associated signs and symptoms to help pinpoint the cause
--Other causes, such as drugs, surgery, diagnostic tests, radiation therapy and other treatments, lifestyle, environmental causes such as lead poisoning, herbal remedies
--Nursing considerations, including pediatric and geriatric issues and patient teaching
--Helpful appendices
--Icons:
--A-to-Z organization
--Open, bulleted format
--Overview/definition of the sign or symptom and its significance
--Assessment: history and physical examination findings
--Medical causes, with their cluster of associated signs and symptoms to help pinpoint the cause
--Other causes, such as drugs, surgery, diagnostic tests, radiation therapy and other treatments, lifestyle, environmental causes such as lead poisoning, herbal remedies
--Nursing considerations, including pediatric and geriatric issues and patient teaching
--Helpful appendices
--Icons:
- Know-how Nugget; expert tips for eliciting or assessing a sign or symptom
- Case Clip; clinical scenarios showing real-life responses to an urgent sign or symptom—the nurse's assessment findings and how the rapid response team intervened
- Quick Action!; urgent responses to an alarming sign or symptom and interventions for avoiding a life-threatening emergency
About the Author(s)
Specs
- Product Format: Softbound
- ISBN: 9780781792059
- Trim Size: 6 x 9
- Pages: 448
- Pub Date: Apr 14, 2008
- Weight: 1.0
Associated Specialties
Table of contents
Contributors and consultants
Signs & symptoms (alphabetical)
Selected references
Index
