Rapid Adult Nursing [Paperback]

Rapid Adult Nursing is an essential read for all adult nursing students, as well as a refresher for qualified adult nurses, and a ‘dip into text’ for other healthcare professionals.  Designed for quick reference, it maps on to the essential clinical skills and knowledge required for pre-registration adult nurses, and captures the essentials of adult nursing care in an easy to read, and highly accessible format.

Covering all the key topics in adult nursing, this concise and easy-to-read title is the perfect quick-reference book for student adult nurses.

Introduction viii

Acknowledgements ix

Part 1: Fundamentals of Nursing Care

Adult nursing 3

Assessment and monitoring 4

Audit 5

Communication 6

Continuing professional development 7

Dignity 8

Discharge planning 9

Documentation 10

Eating and drinking 11

Evaluation 12

Evidence‐based practice 13

Fundamentals of nursing care 14

Health education and promotion 15

Infection prevention and control 16

Leadership 17

Management 18

Medicines management 19

Moving and positioning 20

Practice development 21

Quality improvement 22

Research 23

Risk assessment and management 24

Teamwork 25

Wound management 26

Part 2: Conditions

Acute coronary syndromes 29

Acute renal failure 31

Anaemias 32

Aneurysms 33