Fast Facts for Trauma Nursing

Puts vital, streamlined information at your fingertips to promote lifesaving care

This concise resource delivers the specific knowledge nurses need in their daily practice to care for trauma patients safely and effectively. Fast Facts for Trauma Nursing provides a detailed overview of key trauma-related care issues while distilling critical elements of emergency and trauma care after resuscitation. Organized in a systems-based format, the book stresses evidence-based treatments and nursing interventions for best practice and patient care.

The resource--written by experienced trauma nurse clinicians--focuses on the approach to and care of the trauma patient from arrival to the hospital through discharge. Included is a review of mechanism of injury issues and traumatic injuries, as well as the key elements of primary, secondary, and tertiary surveys. This new resource highlights the unique physiological and psychological needs of the trauma patient while considering how social determinants of health can bear on trauma in individuals. It also focuses on the maintenance of spinal precautions, preventing secondary brain injuries, and monitoring patients for complications of trauma, including acute kidney injury, adult respiratory distress syndrome, compartment syndrome and rhabdomyolysis.. With its clear narrative and easy-to-access design and format, this new book will appeal to all levels of nurses who care for trauma patients along with those studying for specialized trauma certification exams. Purchase includes online access via most mobile devices or computers. 

Key Features:

• Delivers--in quick-access format--information nurses can put to use immediately
• Highlights key trauma care knowledge and its practical applications
• Offers key guidelines of what and how to communicate with trauma care providers
• Provides an overview of specific requirements for hospitals to maintain trauma center status

Dawn Carpenter, DNP, ACNP-BC, CCRN is a practicing Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in the surgical/trauma intensive care unit and trauma service line at Guthrie Healthcare System in Sayre, Pennsylvania, and an Associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing.  Dawn’s career has spanned over 30+ years as a critical care nurse, nurse practitioner and faculty.  Dawn possesses a passion for educating and mentoring acute and critical care nurses and nurse practitioners as they advance their careers. Dawn is a nationally known speaker on a variety of critical care topics.   

Alexander Menard, DNP, AGACNP-BC, is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing, where he coordinates the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) program. Dr. Menard has worked in critical care as a nurse and nurse practitioner for over 10 years.   

He is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurse (AACN) where he volunteers his time to develop new offerings for critical care nurses and nurse practitioners as well as a member of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF).