Angelow. Essential Procedures: Acute Care 1 Edition eBook

2022.Wolters Kluwer Lippincott 1 Edition Strengthen your advanced practice, acute care nursing skills with Essential Procedures: Acute Care, the indispensable tool for learning how to safely and confidently perform the most common acute care procedures. _x000D_ Organized by body systems, the procedures covered in this book include arterial line insertion, wound closure, and lumbar puncture. A handy, spiral-bound text that lies flat, this ideal resource offers step-by-step direction for acute care nursing students; it is also a handy on-the-unit reference for new acute care nurse practitioners. _x000D_  _x000D_ Learn best practices and improve your acute care procedural skills with this expert guidance:_x000D_ •Each chapter walks you through at least one procedure, with easy-to-follow organization and full-color photos and illustrations that clearly demonstrate each step:  _x000D_ • Indications for the procedure _x000D_ • Absolute and relative contraindications _x000D_ • Equipment needed _x000D_ • Steps to performing the procedure _x000D_ • Potential risks and complications _x000D_ • Post-procedural care _x000D_ •Cardiovascular procedures – central venous catheter placement, transvenous pacing, transcutaneous pacemakers, cardioversion, starting an intraosseous infusion, pulmonary catheter insertion  _x000D_ •Pulmonary procedures – endotracheal intubation, tube thoracostomy (chest tube) placement, needle decompression, removing chest tubes, thoracentesis, bronchoscopy, changing tracheostomy  _x000D_ •Gastrointestinal procedures – paracentesis, inserting small-bore feeding tubes (nasoduodenal and nasogastric) _x000D_ •Integumentary procedures – administering local anesthetics, sutures and staples, incision and drainage, paronychia, nail hematoma release  _x000D_ •Neurological and musculoskeletal procedures – compartment pressure monitoring, arthrocentesis, negative pressure wound therapy application, cast application _x000D_ •Hematological procedures – peripheral venipuncture, femoral venipuncture, arterial blood gas  _x000D_ •Evidence-based research bibliographies appear at the end of each chapter _x000D_ •Reference chapters boost your understanding of interpreting diagnostics and responding to emergencies, with coverage of: _x000D_ • 12-lead electrocardiogram interpretation,  _x000D_ • hemodynamic values and parameters,  _x000D_ • pulmonary function test interpretation,  _x000D_ • rapid sequence intubation,  _x000D_ • basics of mechanical ventilation,  _x000D_ • oxygen therapy,  _x000D_ • trauma assessment, and  _x000D_ • responding to a rapid response, cardiopulmonary resuscitation. _x000D_  _x000D_  _x000D_ About the Authors_x000D_  _x000D_ Anthony Angelow, PhD, MSN, CRNP, ACNP-BC, AGACNP-BC, ACNPC, CEN, is Assistant Clinical Professor, Chair of Advanced Practice Nursing and Co-Chair of the Division of Graduate Nursing College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University in Philadelphia._x000D_ Dawn M. Specht, MSN, PhD, RN, APN, CEN, CPEN, CCRN, CCNS, AGACNP-BC, is Associate Professor of Nursing at American Sentinel University in Aurora, Colorado.