Emergency nursing

Holleran, Renée Semonin. (Added Author).

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Physical Description: print
xii, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders, 2002.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Recent advances in emergency life support / David J. Dries and Mary Anne Sample -- When is dead, dead? : the ethics of resuscitation in emergency care / Renée Semonin Holleran -- The emergency medical treatment and Active Labor Act : what emergency nurses need to know / James C. Mitchiner and Charlotte S. Yeh -- Emergency stroke management : a new era / Janice Carrozzella and Edward C. Jauch -- Overcrowding and diversion in the emergency department : the health care safety net unravels / George D. Velianoff -- The problem of pain in emergency care / Renée Semonin Holleran -- Development of sexual assault nurse examiner programs / Linda A. Hutson -- Developing emergency nursing competence / Jean A. Proehl -- Assessing emergency nursing competence / Jean A. Proehl -- Building the emergency department of the future : philosophical, operational, and physical dimensions / Joanne Ingalls McKay -- Complementary, integrative, and holistic care in emergency nursing / Susan M. Hageness, Mary Jo Kreitzer and Mary Ellen Kinney -- Emergency nurses' role in pediatric injury and prevention / Lisa Marie Bernardo -- Special considerations for pediatric triage in the emergency department / Donna Ojanen Thomas -- Violence in the emergency department : nurses contend with prevention in the health care arena / Diane Presley and Gail Robinson -- Disaster management and the emergency department : a framework for planning / Deborah H. Kim, Pamela W. Proctor and Linda K. Amos -- Domestic violence : how to ask and how to listen / Alice Kramer -- Family presence during resuscitation : to see or not to see? / Janet M. Williams.