Emergency Nursing Bible: Complaint-based Emergency Nursing Principles and Practices

Experienced and new emergency nurses: Learn how to effectively care for patients in the emergent phase of their illness or injury before being seen by a physician. Become skilled at rapid accurate physical assessments, interview techniques, monitoring, and treatment options in life-threatening situations. Know all the patient interactions required of an emergency nurse from triage to discharge.

Every effort has been made to include the material addressed on the emergency nursing certification exam (CEN).

Each chapter is a complaint and contains:
Rapid ABC Assessment
Patient Identification
Chief Complaint
History of Present Illness
Nursing Diagnosis
Anticipated Medical Care
Physical Examination
Ongoing Evaluations and Interventions
Discharge Instructions

Each chapter also contains a ready reference of commonly used medications, terms, concepts, pathophysiology, and worse-case scenarios for that specific complaint.

Tasks and topics are repeated as necessary to make each chapter a stand-alone, step-by-step protocol for a specific complaint.