RNotes®: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide / Edition 4

by Ehren Myers RN, BSN

Overview

This quick, portable, and indispensable reference will help your students quickly access information relating to basic nursing tasks and concepts. When they draw a blank on the information they need – like calculating common medication formulas, coagulation values, or remembering the normal ranges of vital signs – they will be able to refer to this guide, which can be neatly tucked inside their scrub pockets. It even has pages that can be written on and erased for further use.

KEY FEATURES

• Only 3.25 X 6 inches! -- Easily portable enough to fit into scrub pocket
• Pages are waterproof and reusable
• Student can write directly on pages, temporarily recording clinical data that can be wiped clean with alcohol and used again
• Collection of commonly used but rarely memorized clinical information, such as charts, graphs, formulas, conversions, and lab values – all necessary to deliver safe and efficient nursing care
• Quick reference for home care visits as well as hospital work
• Post-it page option allows students to insert 3 x 5 post-it notes
• Eight sections cover:
  BASIC -- formulas and conversion tables
  LABS -- common lab values
  ASSESS -- assessment charts and tables such as Vital Signs, Glasgow Coma Scale, Pain Assessment
  OB/GYN -- pregnancy terms, fetal development timetable, complications of pregnancy, fetal monitoring, APGAR Score
  EMERG/ICU -- ACLS Guidelines, Rule of Nines, Signs and Symptoms of Shock, Stages of Cancer, Aldrete Score
  ECG -- basic ECG interpretation
  MEDS/IV -- commonly prescribed drugs, emergency drugs, medication administration
  TOOLS -- frequently used phone numbers, schedule planner, symbols, abbreviations, terminology, English/Spanish translator
• Specialized Assessments in mental health, gerontology, and pediatrics
• Meds contains 100 of the most commonly encountered drugs, listing names by trade, generic, and classification
• Community Resources includes contact numbers for emotional/physical abuse, battered women, shelters, crises hotlines, and home care concerns

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803640245
Publisher:	F.A. Davis Company
Publication date:	03/20/2014
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	3.50(w) x 6.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Portland, Oregon

Table of Contents

BASICS-- formulas and conversion tables
LABS -- common lab values
ASSESS -- assessment charts and tables such as Vital Signs, Glasgow Coma Scale, Pain Assessment
OB/GYN -- pregnancy terms, fetal development timetable, complications of pregnancy, fetal monitoring, APGAR Score
EMERG/ICU -- ACLS Guidelines, Rule of Nines, Signs and Symptoms of Shock, Stages of Cancer, Aldrete Score
ECG -- basic ECG interpretation
MEDS/IV -- commonly prescribed drugs, emergency drugs, medication administration
TOOLS -- frequently used phone numbers, schedule planner, symbols, abbreviations, terminology, English/Spanish translator

Selected References
Illustration Credits
Antidotes
Index [BACK COVER]

Editorial Reviews

3 Stars from Doody

Reviewer: Josie Martin Bowman, RN, MSN, PhD (East Carolina University )
Description: This clinical pocket guide makes essential information available at the fingertips of practicing nurses and students. It provides data on the basics to bioterrorism, and tabs make the guide easy to use. The first edition was published in 2003 and the second edition in 2006.
Purpose: The intent is evident from the nature of the guide, which includes many topics that healthcare professionals need to provide quality care.
Audience: The guide can be used by student nurses and practicing nurses with various levels of experience. Since most of the book covers basic nursing care, it can be used with all clients.
Features: The book starts with a section on basic care which includes standard precautions, use of restraints, when clients need oxygen and delivery systems used. Another section covers a complete health assessment from head to toe by systems. Disease processes are covered by defining the process, the incidence, onset, etiology and clinical findings. With each diagnosis, the author covers the nursing focus and patient teaching. A section covers obstetrics/pediatrics/geriatrics and clients with emergency and trauma needs. The book is small enough to fit in a lab coat pocket, is waterproof, and has pages the user can write on and wipe off.
Assessment: I would recommend this clinical pocket guide to healthcare professionals. It provides useful information or a quick review without a need for other sources.

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