Emergency Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

Emergency Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! offers essential information on emergency, trauma, and critical care in the popular, easy-to-learn, and enjoyable Incredibly Easy! format. It covers emergency care basics including patient assessment and triage, trauma, disease crises, and patient and family communication, as well as legal issues such as handling evidence and documentation and holistic issues such as pain and end-of-life care.

Chapters detail emergency nursing by body system and cover shock, multi-system traumas, environmental emergencies, disaster preparedness, communicable diseases, and obstetric and pediatric emergencies. The presentation features light-hearted cartoons and humor, "Memory Joggers" and other icons, and end-of-chapter review questions.

--Comprehensive coverage of the latest concepts and skills related to emergency nursing
--Hot topics, such as legal issues including reportable situations and forensic evidence collection, and professional issues, such as staffing during emergencies, critical incident stress management (CISM), and disaster management
--Concise, simple explanations and abundant illustrations that clearly explain difficult concepts
--Logical organization that enables the reader to find information fast with review questions at the end of every chapter
--Quick quizzes at the end of each chapter to help the reader assess learning
--Light-hearted cartoons and humor throughout
--"Memory joggers"—use clever mnemonic devices that aid recall
--"Ages and stages"—points out important age-related considerations when providing emergency care
--"Stay on the ball"—identifies critical areas involving possible dangers, risks, complications
--"Education edge"—provides teaching tips for patients after they leave the emergency department for home or admission to the hospital
--Appendices explain how to deal with natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes and all types of terrorist attacks