A comprehensively updated and extended new version of the best selling Pocket Reference for Nurses.  The book provides an essential guide to assessment of the adult patient and interpretation of key clinical information, in a durable and easy to use format.  The book is perfect for individual students and nurses, and as a reference resource at the nurses’ station.

“Invaluable…” Nursing and Midwifery Council

• An essential working reference tool
• For new, returning and practising nurses caring for adult patients
• Immediate access to key data
• Portable and almost indestructible format
• In your pocket, or at the work station.
• 48 pages; 16cm high x 8.4cm wide
• 2 colour print throughout
• Among the new material:
  o Latest hand washing guidelines
  o Updated infection classifications
  o Heart-rate calculator
  o Pressure ulcer prevention guidelines
  o Visual infusion phlebitis score
  o Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST)
  o Braden Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment tool
  o Cholesterol and problems related to high levels LDL
  o Oxygen therapy/administration