Mosby's Expert Rapid Response

By Beth Adams, C.V. Mosby Publishing Company, Catherine E. Harold

Book Overview

Organised alphabetically, Expert Rapid Response covers over 100 of the most urgent patient-care situations nurses working in hospitals encounter. Each entry begins with an explanation of how or why the life-threatening circumstance occurs, and then it tells the nurse:
What to look for
What to do immediately
What to do next
How to perform follow-up care
Which special considerations to be aware of

Three major elements distinguish Expert Rapid Response from other books dealing with acute clinical situations:
Its highly practical alphabetical organisation
The selectivity and breadth of its content
Its to-the-point entries, which get the reader to the information she needs quickly and tells her what she must know to act fast and decisively.

These elements mean that Expert Rapid Response enables the nurse to enter any acute or life-threatening situation and know or quickly determine exactly what to do. Shell know what causes the problem, its pathophysiologic nature, what to assess, which actions to take to stabilize the patient, what to do next, and how to plan and initiate follow-up care. Insights and essential ongoing information closes the entry. This pattern infuses every entry and encourages self-confidence, analytical thinking, swift and economical interventions, and direct interactions and communication with other team members.

* Strict A-to-Z organization ensures that you'll find the disorder or complication you're looking for in seconds. * Consistent, to-the-point text clearly states actions you need to take. * Covers the most common acute disorders--more than 100 urgent patient care situations in all. * Dozens of illustrations demonstrate how to perform procedures and use equipment.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323005489
• ISBN13: 9780323005487
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Amazed!

I was absolutely amazed at what good condition this book was in, especially for the price. It looked like it hadn't ever been touched...and it was "USED". I am VERY pleased with my purchase.

GREAT BOOK FOR NURSING TEACHERS!

I'm an RN who works in a large hospital. My specialty is nephrology and I train new dialysis nurses to work in our unit. My orientation is specifically nephrology but the hospital orientation deals with general nursing, and emergencies. During the hospital orienation they give a test that's on a video and shows certain situations such as cardiac arrest, that the nurses might come across in their practice. They are asked what would they do first and how would they follow up with the particular situation. Well the format of this book follows these tests exactly, and the chapters are on all different situations, such as cardiac arrest, diabetic ketoacidosis, etc...my students do well after studying from this book, so I recommend it for anyone who might apply for a job in a large metropolitan hospital because I believe most of them are testing like this, and this book would definitely helping.