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Emergencies in Adult Nursing

Edited by Philip Downing

Abstract

This guide enables nurses to identify which clinical problems are true emergencies, which require urgent attention and those that can wait – differential diagnoses for each clinical presentation are identified, along with the actions required to ensure effective treatment is provided.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
Jun 2009
Print ISBN-13:
9780199226573
Published to Oxford Medicine:
Aug 2010
DOI:
10.1093/med/9780199226573.001.0001

Author

Philip Downing, editor
President, Faculty of Emergency Nursing, Lead Nurse for Emergency Care, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK


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