Emergency Nursing at a Glance

2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-394-27291-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Everything you need to know about Emergency Nursing… at a Glance!

Emergency Nursing at a Glance, Second Edition, remains an essential resource for nursing students and newly qualified practitioners working in emergency and urgent care environments. This concise, visually engaging book provides up-to-date, evidence-based knowledge across a broad range of emergency presentations. Building on the strengths of the first edition, Emergency Nursing at a Glance is fully updated to ensure relevance in today’s clinical landscape. New peer-reviewed content—organised into themed chapters that reflect the diverse nature of emergency nursing—includes infectious diseases, frailty, safeguarding vulnerable adults, and sickle cell crisis.

Equipping readers with the knowledge and confidence to provide safe, responsive care in the fast-paced and ever-evolving emergency care setting, Emergency Nursing at a Glance:

- Addresses a full spectrum of care needs in adults, children, mental health, and people with a learning disability
- Incorporates the latest evidence-based guidance and clinical best practices
- Supports understanding of triage, assessment, and common emergency presentations across multiple settings
- Includes updated content on legal, professional, and ethical responsibilities
- Presented in a user-friendly format designed for quick reference, effective learning, and revision

Emergency Nursing at a Glance is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students studying emergency care as part of BSc or MSc Nursing programmes in adult, child, mental health, and learning disability fields. It is also a valuable reference for newly qualified nurses and junior staff in emergency departments, urgent treatment centres, minor injuries units, and a useful resource when undertaking CPD.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newcombe, Paul

Laslett, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Unfall- und Notfallpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editors ix

Contributors x

Preface xii

Acknowledgements xiii

Section 1 The ED journey 1

1 The context of emergency nursing 2
Natalie Holbery and Inmaculada Diaz Alonso

2 Pre- hospital care 4
Paul Newcombe and Amba Cooper- Morris

3 Major incidents 6
Heather Jarman and Las Aiyathurai

4 Discharge planning 8
Eimear Cardwell and Anna Ryan

5 Patient transfer 10
Heather Jarman and Emily Dekker

Section 2 Patient assessment 13

6 Initial assessment and triage 14
Paul Newcombe and John Clulow

7 The ‘ABCDE’ approach 16
Paul Newcombe and Sarah Laslett

8 Track and trigger systems 18
Paul Newcombe and Sarah Laslett

9 Pain 20
Paul Newcombe and Sarah Laslett

Section 3 Airway and breathing 23

10 Airway assessment and management 24
Natalie Holbery and Catherine Jones

11 Assessment of breathing 26
Paul Newcombe and Catherine Jones

12 Oxygen therapy 28
Paul Newcombe and Sarah Leyland

13 Respiratory conditions 30
Paul Newcombe and Sarah Leyland

Section 4 Circulation 33

14 Assessment of circulation 34
Paul Newcombe and Sarah Hassiem

15 Circulation interventions 36
Paul Newcombe and Sarah Hassiem

16 Shock 38
Paul Newcombe, Inmaculada Diaz Alonso, and Sarah Laslett

17 12- lead electrocardiogram (ECG) 40
Emma Menzies- Gow

18 Cardiac arrhythmias 42
Emma Menzies- Gow

19 Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) 44
Emma Menzies- Gow

20 Heart failure 46
Emma Menzies- Gow

21 Advanced life support (ALS) 48
Paul Newcombe and Inmaculada Diaz Alonso

Section 5 Disability 51

22 Assessment of neurological function 52
Chris Brunker

23 The unconscious patient 54
Chris Brunker

24 Stroke 56
Chris Brunker

25 Seizures 58
Chris Brunker

26 Headache 60
Natalie Holbery and Krishan Joseph

Section 6 Major trauma 63

27 Trauma in context 64
Natalie Holbery and Suzan Thompson

28 Primary survey 66
Natalie Holbery and Suzan Thompson

29 Head and spinal injury 68
Natalie Holbery and Sarah Laslett

30 Chest trauma 70
Natalie Holbery and Inmaculada Diaz Alonso

31 Limb injuries 72
Natalie Holbery and Inmaculada Diaz Alonso

32 Abdominal and pelvic trauma 74
Natalie Holbery and Inmaculada Diaz Alonso

33 Massive haemorrhage 76
Natalie Holbery and Suzan Thompson

34 Burns 78
Natalie Holbery and Inmaculada Diaz Alonso

35 Trauma: Special circumstances 80
Natalie Holbery and Inmaculada Diaz Alonso

Section 7 Emergency presentations 83

36 Abdominal pain 84
Paul Newcombe and Krishan Joseph

37 Gastrointestinal bleed 86
Paul Newcombe and Sarah Laslett

38 Genitourinary conditions 88
Paul Newcombe, Stefani Konstantinou, and Elizabeth Cotter

39 Acute kidney injury (AKI) 90
Paul Newcombe and Marissa Dainton

40 Diabetic emergencies 92
Paul Newcombe and Sarah Laslett

41 Sickle cell crisis 94
Alero Omaghomi and Francis Akor

42 Gynaecological presentations 96
Natalie Holbery and Raquel Gonzaga

43 Obstetric presentations 98
Natalie Holbery and Joan Lawrence

Section 8 Poisoning and overdose 101

44 Poisoning: Assessment and management 102
Claire Smitheram

45 Poisoning: Prescription and non- prescription drugs 104
Claire Smitheram

46 Poisoning: Other substances 106
Claire Smitheram

47 Alcohol misuse 108
Claire Smitheram

Section 9 Infection prevention and control 111

48 Management of infectious diseases 112
Sadie Connolly

49 Common notifiable diseases 114
Natalie Holbery and Sadie Connolly

50 Sexually transmitted infections 116
Natalie Holbery and Nicole Pollock

Section 10 Vulnerable adults 119

51 Safeguarding vulnerable adults 120
Janet Melville- Wiseman

52 People with a learning disability 122
Daniel Marsden, Catherine Siggery, and Jim Blair

53 Domestic abuse 124
Natalie Holbery and Sari Sirkia- Weaver

54 Sexual assault 126
Shauna McCusker and Natalie Holbery

55 Frailty 128
Kim Fittall

56 Falls and hip fracture 130
Sarah Laslett

57 Dementia 132
Natalie Holbery and Sarah Laslett

58 End- of- life care 134
Natalie Holbery and Matt Hart

Section 11 Mental health 137

59 The mental health patient in the emergency department (ED) 138
Chris Hart and Kate Button

60 Risk assessment, self- harm and suicide 140
Chris Hart and Kate Button

61 Common mental health problems 142
Chris Hart and Kate Button

Section 12 Children in the emergency department (ED) 145

62 Children in the emergency department (ED) 146
Caron Ireland

63 Safeguarding children 148
Caron Ireland

64 Recognising the sick child 150
Caron Ireland

65 Common illnesses in children 152
Caron Ireland

66 Paediatric advanced life support 154
Caron Ireland

67 Trauma in children 156
Natalie Holbery, Sarah Cave- McMullan, and Meg Corey

68 Minor injuries in children 158
Caron Ireland

Section 13 Urgent care 161

69 Lower limb injuries 162
Nicola Shopland and Sarah- Jane Anscomb

70 Upper limb injuries 164
Matthew Parkes and Sarah- Jane Anscomb

71 Wounds 166
Matthew Parkes and Sarah- Jane Anscomb

72 Eye conditions 168
Nicola Shopland and Sarah- Jane Anscomb

73 Ear, nose and throat conditions 170
Nicola Shopland, Ollie Phipps, and Jaime Phipps

74 Minor illness 172
Inmaculada Diaz Alonso and Natalie Holbery Further reading/references 174

Index 180

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Newcombe is a senior nursing academic and healthcare consultant with extensive experience in emergency care education. Having held leadership positions at a number of London universities, he has led the development of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and is widely published in the field of urgent and emergency care.

Sarah Laslett is a registered adult nurse with a clinical background as an Emergency Nurse Practitioner and a Clinical Nurse Specialist. A former senior lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, her teaching and research interests include health inequalities and social justice. She currently works in primary care and holds an honorary academic position.