Starting a new placement? Moving to a new specialty? Revising? This ‘Survival Guide’ will give you the help you need with the procedures and problems faced by nurses today. Organising your job and yourself Working with patients Clinical information on a wide range of conditions Legal, health and safety issues Pocket-sized for convenience Bullet-points for quick reference Great revision aid!

What will you find in this UPDATED edition: Answers to some of your questions about embarking on your career into children’s nursing; How to safely care for children’s needs in the ward according to their age and stage of their development; Examples on legal, health and safety issues; Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field. Part of the A Nurse’s Survival Guide series

Preceded by A survival guide to children's nursing. 2013.

A lightweight, pocket guide to pediatric intensive care that covers all aspects of the subject by body systems, with normal values given on the inside covers. Extra information is provided on equipment needed in a pediatric emergency and there are helpful hints on managing children with various conditions.

Practical and convenient, the thoroughly updated third edition of The Pediatric Nurse's Survival Guide is the perfect clinical reference! This handy resource offers quick answers to your pediatric nursing questions concerning assessment, clinical values and standards, and the most common conditions and diseases seen in the pediatric population. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

This is a spin-off of the very popular Nurse's Survival Guide. It will present information that a nurse or a nursing student who is working with a pediatric patient may need to know but not necessarily memorize.

Following the success of the previous edition, A Nurse's Survival Guide to Drugs in Practice has been completely updated with revised content written by expert practitioners and educators in the field of drug administration and pharmacology. It continues to follow the popular systems approach and is now revised with new sections on the immune system added. - The book provides the underpinning current knowledge required for professional judgement and safer medication management. - This will be an invaluable resource for those studying prescribing courses as well as being useful for paramedics, student nurses and all qualified staff. - A more detailed account of medication management, including drug errors and strategies to mitigate against them occurring, is included. - The multidisciplinary nature of drug administration from the naming of drugs, through drug preparation, administration and outcome are taken into account.