MedSurg Notes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide for Palm OS
MedSurg™ - Offers focused assessments, immediate interventions, and follow-up care for patients who develop complications, all presented from the nurse's point of view.
Version: 9.0.6
MedSurg Notes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide by: Skyscape, last updated: 09/06/2006
Requirements: Palm OS%XAE: 3.1 MB
About MedSurg Notes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide
MedSurg Notes: Nurse’s Clinical Pocket Guidepowered by Skyscape Author(s): Ehren Myers, RN, Portland, Oregon & Tracey Hopkins, BSN, RN, Ardmore, PennsylvaniaPublisher: F.A. Davis Company MedSurg Notes provides succinct, on-the-spot guidance for caring for patients with complex medical-surgical conditions. MedSurg Notes offers focused assessments, immediate interventions, and follow-up care for patients who develop complications, all presented from the nurse’s point of view. From setting up an oxygen delivery system in a hospital room to administering stat meds, nurses and nursing students should rely on MedSurg Notes to help deliver high-quality care.
Key Features
- Covers advanced nursing procedures and concepts associated with urgent clinical situations
- Uses a systems approach and is organized by symptom and medical diagnosis
- Sections includes an A & P Snapshot of the associated system
- Each clinical situation includes a focused assessment tool
- Reviews IV therapy, including indications for crystalloids, colloids, or blood products administration
- Discusses ways to prevent and manages a medication error
- Handling psychosocial emergencies in community health or home care settings
- Includes obstetrical emergencies
- Built-in Medical Calculators: Provide instant access from within topics to relevant medical calculators including:
- Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
- Braden Scale Risk Assessment
- Mini Mental Status Exam
- Eight sections cover:
- BASICS - CPR and choking protocols, oxygen delivery systems, starting IVs, inserting an NG tube
- CARDIOVASCULAR\F&E - chest pain, fever, hemorrhage/wound hemorrhage, abnormal blood pressure, shock, anaphylaxis, bradycardia, tachycardia, hyperkalemia, hypokalemia, fluid overload, transfusion reaction
- RESP - chest tube dislodgement, respiratory distress/failure, choking/aspiration, tracheostomy dislodgement, pulmonary embolism, shortness of breath
- NEURO - change in mental status/delirium, Stroke/TIA, dizziness, altered level of consciousness, head trauma, increased intracranial pressure, seizure
- GI/METABOLIC/GU - abdominal distension, upper GI bleeding/hematemesis, lower GI bleeding/melena, oliguria, UTI, diarrhea, feeding tube complication
- MED-SURG/INTEG - patient fall, spinal cord trauma, surgical site infection/complication, pressure ulcer, hip fracture, pathological fracture
- MEDS/IV - high alert medications, emergency meds, safe med administration, IV potassium chloride compatibilities, patient education and medication use
- TOOLS - pressure ulcers risk factors/prevention strategies, wound assessment, wound care products, Glasgow coma scale, mini mental status exam, muscle strength grading scale, physical assessment in an emergency, common lab test ranges
MedSurg Notes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide, compatible Devices
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