Description

The newly updated Nursing Facts Made Incredibly Quick! ®, 3rd Edition is the essential take-along pocket guide, offering instant access to the everyday clinical tools and information required of nurses in all specialty areas.

Supporting you like a friendly, experienced coworker, this enjoyable guide explains the vital nursing terms, concepts, and methods, with easy-to-remember how-tos on essential protocols, treatment algorithms, and technical skills. This must-have resource delivers on-the-spot confidence and information needed for successful classroom and clinical knowledge.

Get the know-how you need to succeed, with this colorful in-your-pocket guide, featuring:

• NEWand updated content on all the basic, vital nursing skills
• Spiral-bound format to easily fit in your pocket for quick at-a-glance answers
• Laminated, wipe-clean pages, perfect for notetaking and revising
• Clear, concise text backed by dozens of color photos, tables, drawings, and diagrams
• Clear directions on performing assessments, including:
  • Cardiovascular, respiratory, neurologic, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, integumentary, and endocrine body systems
  • Geriatric, pediatric, and psychiatric patient assessments
  • Pain assessments
  Color-coded tabs, providing quick access to information on a broad range of skills, with illustrated quick techniques, data, and information on areas such as:
  • Administering and monitoring medications and IV therapy, including dosage information
  • Emergency care
  • Nutrition – troubleshooting tube-feeding problems, evaluating nutritional disorders, nutritional guidelines
  • Vital-sign ranges by age group
  • Suicide interventions
  • CPR algorithms and ECG quick-reference
  • Quick-scan charts – lab values
  • Infusion rates
  • Teaching aids
  Important on-the-job resources:
  • Evidence-based nursing practices
  • Conversion charts for weight, body temperature, liquids, and solids
  • CDC infection control guidelines
  • Patient safety and identification guidelines
  • Cultural considerations in patient care
  • Dangerous Abbreviations to avoid in clinical documentation
  • English-Spanish quick-reference guide and dictionary

Clinical Editor

Tracy Taylor, MSN, RN, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Nursing at Kettering College in
Kettering, Ohio

Table of contents

Assessment
Labs
Meds/IV
Emergency
ECG
Teaching
Resource