This pocket-size book represents an innovative approach that guides the practioner through a range of practice areas and modern management processses that are being introduced in the current healthcare system. The boundaries between nurses, doctors and other healthcare staff are blurred, particularly as nurses expand their roles in collaborations, such as the Hospital at Night project.

Included in this book are:

- Management of the cardiac arrest including the Approved new 2005 Guidelines from the Resuscitation Council (UK).

- Assessment of the acutely sick patient.

- ECG Interpretation.

- The sampling and interpretation of blood gases.

- Advanced clinical skills such as chest auscultation, chest x-ray analysis and abdominal assessment.

- Managing the Hospital at Night team.

- Nurse prescribing.

- Managing the mechanisms of legal restraint including a guide to the Mental Health Act.

This book is written in a format that presents information in a simple, easily read form that can be used by all disciplines and carried to the bedside for use as a crib sheet in patient assessment or in the challenging new management circumstances such as the Hospital at Night team management.

This book is an essential resource for the modern nurse, nurse practitioner, student nurse, doctor or healthcare assistant who needs access to important key information quickly and easily in the extreme of the emergency situation.

Book has 486 pages and measures 106 x 149 x 30 mm.