Emergency Nursing Secrets

Using the popular question-and-answer format of The Secrets Series, this helpful
resource offers practical tips, answers, and secrets from expert emergency nurses.
Chapters include concepts that inform emergency nursing practice, including patient
advocacy, family involvement, collaborative practice, patient teaching, ethical decision-
making, and evidence-based practice. The nuts and bolts of emergency nursing are
addressed in 35 chapters on topics such as triage, disaster management, abdominal
pain, respiratory distress, shock, spinal cord injury, and burnsto name just a few.
From caring for a woman who suffers a miscarriage to balancing the competing
priorities during trauma resuscitation to making changes that better the plight of the
undeserved, these nurses have captured the knowledge, enthusiasm, and heart of what
emergency nursing is all about.

Follows the question-and-answer format of The Secrets Series

Serves as a useful resource for practicing emergency nurses and students