Respiratory Care: Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses

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Respiratory Care: Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses

Caia Francis

Description

Respiratory care is a beginner's guide to care of patients with respiratory illness. It contains evidence-based guidelines to enable students and newly qualified staff to develop the essential clinical skills needed to care for all patients with respiratory disease.

Respiratory Care explores the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system, examines assessment of respiratory function, and addresses day-to-day management of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchitis, lung cancer and respiratory infections including TB and pneumonia, in order to improve quality of life.

About the Author

Caia Francis is a Lecturer at the University of the West of England.

Features

* Contains practical guidelines for effective respiratory care
* Assumes no prior knowledge
* Reviews latest developments in the management of respiratory infections and COPD
* Explores choice of inhalers, oxygen therapy, and assessment of respiratory function
* Incorporates new British Thoracic Society Guidelines on asthma care
* Addresses acute, chronic and community care

Series

Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses

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