Rapid Response to Everyday Emergencies: A Nurse’s Guide

Calculated for quick reference, this portable handbook provides matter-of-fact, step-by-step guidance on how to answer to over 170 emergency situations that can arise in every unit of a healthcare facility. Coverage of each emergency starts with bulleted, quick-scanning, action-oriented rapid response instructions and then proceeds to explanations of what caused the emergency and defensive strategies.

Tables and checklists provide vital in rank at a glance. Numerous sidebars and more than 200 illustrations describe and exhibit key procedures. Icons highlight complications and potential dangers that can arise during and after the initial response.