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Trauma Nursing Secrets

  • 1st Edition - August 2, 2002
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Sharon Saunderson Cohen
  • Language: English

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… Read more

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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.

Key features

  • Engaging, interactive Q & A format
  • Concise answers with valuable pearls, tips, memory aids, and "secrets"
  • 17 succinct chapters written for quick review
  • All the most important, "need-to-know" questions and answers in the proven format of the highly acclaimed Secret Series®
  • Thorough, highly detailed index

Readership

Critical Care Nurses and Cardiac/Emergency Nurses

Table of contents

I CLINICAL MANAGEMENT IN TRAUMA NURSING

1. Trauma Systems: an Organized Approach

2. Biomechanics and Mechanism of Injury

3. Stabilization, Transfer, and Transport

II CLINICAL APPLICATIONS IN TRAUMA NURSING CARE

4. Weapons of Mass Destruction

5. Forensics in Trauma

6. Injury Prevention

III SYSTEM INJURIES

7. Neurologic and Facial Trauma

8. Thoracic Trauma

9. Abdominal and Genitourinary Trauma

10. Musculoskeletal Trauma

11. Skin Wound and Ostomy in the Trauma Patient

12. Shock

IV SPECIAL POPULATIONS

13. Burn Trauma

14. Trauma During Pregnancy

15. Pediatric Trauma

16. Geriatric Trauma

17. Domestic Violence and Abuse

18. Toxicology

19. Organ Donation and Organ Procurement

14. Trauma Nursing Documentation

15. Organ Procurement

16. Evidenced-Based Practice

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 2, 2002
  • Language: English

About the author

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Sharon Saunderson Cohen

Affiliations and expertise
Trauma Clinical Nurse Specialist, North Broward Hospital District, Ft. Lauderdale, FL