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Author: Tener Goodwin Veenema Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0323079474 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 321
Book Description
This color-coded, rapid-reference text includes all of the essential information you need to manage any disaster or emergency with mass casualties. Coverage of each category of disaster—weather-related, public health, infectious disease, chemical, biological, radiological/nuclear, and explosive—offers vital content on dealing with the injuries and nursing protocols for each scenario. Plus, information on disaster sites and clinical management prepares you to take action at the scene or in the hospital setting. - Provides the need-to-know information on emerging infectious diseases, such as Swine Flu, including: - Distinguishing Pandemic Influenza from annual seasonal influenza. - Assessing and managing patients with quarantinable infectous diseases. - Preventing further transmission. - Critical Info feature highlights the most important points from each chapter.Assessment illustrations show characteristic symptoms and make it easy to identify signs of illness quickly. - Icons alert you to important information to consider before approaching a patient, including personal risk, contagion, and reporting obligations. - Color-coded sections and coordinated thumb tabs make it easy to find important information at a glance. - Chapter outlines provide page references for each major section within the chapter. - Glossary and Acronyms section includes the most commonly used acronyms and terms you'll need in emergency situations. - Family Disaster Plan appendix offers vital information on creating a personal disaster plan, and Family Risk icons alert you to dangers that may be carried to your family. - Contacts appendix provides federal agency contact information, as well as space for you to fill in local emergency contacts for increased efficiency in a disaster.
Author: Tener Goodwin Veenema Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0323079474 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 321
Book Description
This color-coded, rapid-reference text includes all of the essential information you need to manage any disaster or emergency with mass casualties. Coverage of each category of disaster—weather-related, public health, infectious disease, chemical, biological, radiological/nuclear, and explosive—offers vital content on dealing with the injuries and nursing protocols for each scenario. Plus, information on disaster sites and clinical management prepares you to take action at the scene or in the hospital setting. - Provides the need-to-know information on emerging infectious diseases, such as Swine Flu, including: - Distinguishing Pandemic Influenza from annual seasonal influenza. - Assessing and managing patients with quarantinable infectous diseases. - Preventing further transmission. - Critical Info feature highlights the most important points from each chapter.Assessment illustrations show characteristic symptoms and make it easy to identify signs of illness quickly. - Icons alert you to important information to consider before approaching a patient, including personal risk, contagion, and reporting obligations. - Color-coded sections and coordinated thumb tabs make it easy to find important information at a glance. - Chapter outlines provide page references for each major section within the chapter. - Glossary and Acronyms section includes the most commonly used acronyms and terms you'll need in emergency situations. - Family Disaster Plan appendix offers vital information on creating a personal disaster plan, and Family Risk icons alert you to dangers that may be carried to your family. - Contacts appendix provides federal agency contact information, as well as space for you to fill in local emergency contacts for increased efficiency in a disaster.
Author: MOSBY Publisher: Mosby ISBN: 9780323066327 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
This money-saving package is a must-have for nursing students! It includes ReadyRN, Handbook for Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness, 2nd edition and an electronic version of the textbook that allows students to search, highlight information, take notes, share notes and more. This package makes it simple for students to make the most of their study time and get more use out of their textbooks!
Author: Tener Goodwin Veenema Publisher: Mosby ISBN: 9780323673013 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
This color-coded, rapid-reference text includes all of the essential information you need to manage any disaster or emergency with mass casualties. Coverage of each category of disaster-weather-related, public health, infectious disease, chemical, biological, radiological/nuclear, and explosive-offers vital content on dealing with the injuries and nursing protocols for each scenario. Plus, information on disaster sites and clinical management prepares you to take action at the scene or in the hospital setting.
Author: Tener Goodwin Veenema Publisher: Springer Publishing Company ISBN: 9780826121448 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 680
Book Description
Read a fascinating interview with editor Tener Goodwin Veenema! Tener Veenema Interview Disaster planning and emergency preparedness have never been more critical to the nurses who serve as our front-line response. Today's pandemic threats of global terrorism, disease, and natural disasters make this comprehensive handbook of best practices a necessity--meeting the need for a nursing workforce that is adequately prepared to respond to any disaster or public health emergency. In addition to a thorough update based on the most recent recommendations, this second edition contains six new chapters: Emergency Health Services (EMS and other first responders) Burn Assessment and Management Explosive & Traumatic Terrorism Caring for High-Risk, High-Vulnerability Patients Emerging Infectious Disease (avian and other flu pandemics) Chemical Decontamination All content reflects the guidelines provided in the Federal Disaster Response Plan and the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and therapeutic recommendations from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Disaster Nursing will prepare any nurse or EMS team to provide health care under a variety of disaster conditions.
Author: Kathleen Jo Gutierrez Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0323550169 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1020
Book Description
Get a head-start to becoming a pharmacology expert! Mosby's Nursing Drug Cards, 24th Edition is the ideal, pocket-sized drug information reference with over 400 sturdy cards containing guidelines for 700+ generic and 600 brand-name drugs. Each card lists the most up-to-date nursing information, including descriptions, use(s), mechanism(s), pharmacokinetics, side/adverse effects, contraindications/precautions, interactions, dosing, and nursing management priorities. Best of all, these pre-made drug cards come ready-to-go for use in the classroom or during clinicals! Tall Man lettering of over 700 generic and 600 brand-name drugs provides one-stop access to the information most needed for clinical practice. High-alert drugs and Black Box Warnings point out these need-to-know medications. Portable 4x6-inch cards are smaller than most drug cards and fit easily into a pocket. Alphabetic organization helps you find information quickly. Consistent format features a drug’s generic name, pronunciation, category, pregnancy category, brand name, dosage forms, use, action, pharmacokinetics, side/adverse effects, contraindications, interactions, dosage, and nursing management priorities. Nursing management priorities follow a nursing process format: assess, diagnose, implement, and evaluate. Comprehensive index contains generic and trade names, drug classes and combination products. Critical Thinking fill-in-the-blank card may be used on any drug to prompt students to think about the drug category, action, patient teaching, and more. Drug interaction information includes subheadings for drug, food, and laboratory interactions. Drug pronunciations are listed for each generic drug and drug category. Common conversion formulas are found on the inside lid of the box. Dosage calculation formulas are listed in the appendix. NEW! 20 additional drugs and drug categories have been added to this edition to reflect the most recent FDA-approved drugs. NEW! 100 new drug facts offer the latest information on dosage forms, new brand names, contraindications, side effects, actions, drug interactions, uses, and nursing management priorities. NEW! Condensed category cards feature essential information to help you find what you need fast! NEW! Separate coverage of the top 200 commonly used drugs gives you quick access to medications you may reference the most.
Author: Rolando Cimaz Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 0080553443 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 301
Book Description
Many of the systemic autoimmune diseases seen in children are different from those seen in adults making them a special problem for physicians and scientists who care for the affected children and study their diseases. Benefiting both pediatric and adult rheumatologists, as well as physicians from other specialties, this volume covers the latest advances in pathogenesis and clinical management of common conditions seen in pediatric rheumatology practices.
Author: Herner Saeverot Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 100046783X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation is the first book of its kind to provide an educational and systematic analysis of problems and solutions regarding the most pressing threats that humankind is facing. The book makes a case for the importance of education responding to significant threats; including climate change, pandemics, decline in global biodiversity, overpopulation, egoism, ideologies, nuclear, biological and chemical warfare, inequality, artificial intelligence, and ignorance and the distortion of truth. Written by leading experts in their field based on cutting-edge research, the chapters explore these issues and offer suggestions for how education can address these problems in the future. This groundbreaking and highly topical book will be an essential reading for academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of education research, environmental studies, educational politics and organizational management.
Author: Carol J. Huston Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ISBN: 1451128339 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 429
Book Description
Using an approach that fosters critical thinking and values clarification, this textbook examines the full range of professional issues facing contemporary nursing. Coverage includes critical issues such as the nursing shortage, mandatory staffing ratios, violence in nursing, legal and ethical issues, plus the latest HIPAA regulations, career advancement and evaluations, and best practices for today and the future. This edition includes two NEW chapters: 1) a NEW chapter on developing effective leaders to meet 21st century healthcare challenges, and 2) a NEW chapter on the use of residencies for new graduate nurses as a transition to practice. In addition to these exciting additions, content has been updated throughout the book to reflect cutting-edge trends in healthcare including the impact of healthcare reform, and recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM). This edition promises to be an integral tool to providing effective nursing care in an increasingly global, rapidly changing, technology driven world.
Author: Shayne Cox Gad Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0470249021 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1352
Book Description
A clear, straightforward resource to guide you through preclinical drug development Following this book's step-by-step guidance, you can successfully initiate and complete critical phases of preclinical drug development. The book serves as a basic, comprehensive reference to prioritizing and optimizing leads, dose formulation, ADME, pharmacokinetics, modeling, and regulations. This authoritative, easy-to-use resource covers all the issues that need to be considered and provides detailed instructions for current methods and techniques. Each chapter is written by one or more leading experts in the field. These authors, representing the many disciplines involved in preclinical toxicology screening and testing, give you the tools needed to apply an effective multidisciplinary approach. The editor has carefully reviewed all the chapters to ensure that each one is thorough, accurate, and clear. Among the key topics covered are: * Modeling and informatics in drug design * Bioanalytical chemistry * Absorption of drugs after oral administration * Transporter interactions in the ADME pathway of drugs * Metabolism kinetics * Mechanisms and consequences of drug-drug interactions Each chapter offers a full exploration of problems that may be encountered and their solutions. The authors also set forth the limitations of various methods and techniques used in determining the safety and efficacy of a drug during the preclinical stage. This publication should be readily accessible to all pharmaceutical scientists involved in preclinical testing, enabling them to perform and document preclinical safety tests to meet all FDA requirements before clinical trials may begin.
Author: Tener Goodwin Veenema
Author: Tener Goodwin Veenema
Author: MOSBY
Author: Tener Goodwin Veenema
Author: Tener Goodwin Veenema
Author: Kathleen Jo Gutierrez
Author: Rolando Cimaz
Author: Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
Author: Herner Saeverot
Author: Carol J. Huston
Author: Shayne Cox Gad