This handy reference gives practitioners access to the essential aspects of emergency nursing--at a glance! A unique, quick-reference organization enables readers to instantly identify specific patient problems and delineate the emergency nursing and medical care required to treat the problem. Information on 1) patient problem assessment, 2) common diagnostic tests, and 3) appropriate nursing interventions for each specific medical illness or traumatic injury is presented in a single-topic-per-page format for easy retrieval.Comprehensive in scope--The manual covers the full range of problems faced in emergency nursing settings--from common ambulatory care problems to critical illness, and more.Each page of the manual is devoted to one specific medical illness or traumatic injury--featuring practical, clinically oriented guidelines from an emergency nursing perspective.A logical, consistent format presents the following information for each illness or traumatic injury--common etiology of the problem, typical patient complaints, appropriate nursing diagnoses, triage urgency ratings, common signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests and findings, the usual nursing/medical interventions, treatments, common patient disposition, and more.Authoritative authorship--Judy Selfridge-Thomas is a nationally known emergency nurse who speaks and consults on a regular basis. Read Less