Handbook of Veterinary Nursing

Handbook of Veterinary Nursing presents essential guidance and helpful tips on developing and delivering high quality nursing care and skills. 
Fully updated, this easy–to–follow guide reflects recent changes to veterinary nursing qualifications, current terminology and drugs in use. The emphasis is on the importance of working methodically, using high quality procedures, to help the whole veterinary team ensure the most successful outcomes in animal care.
Written in note form for quick reference by veterinary nurses and technicians at all stages of their training and career, this will be invaluable for both exam revision and quick reference in clinic.
Contents include:
The nursing process in veterinary care, physical assessment of the patient, managing the hospital environment, managing the operating room, surgical nursing activities, anaesthesia, diagnostic imaging, diagnostic tests, triage and emergency procedures, and essential calculations for drugs, fluids, nutrition and radiograph ic exposures.


Key features:
– Gives clinical advice quickly and simply
– Written by authors with many years experience of veterinary nurse training and education
– Contains essential calculations
– Illustrated in colour throughout


Spis treści:
Section 1 Contemporary Veterinary Nursing
1 Present Day Veterinary Nursing
2 The Nursing Process
3 Physical Assessment of the Patient
4 Nursing Activities of the Ability Model
5 Nursing Notes for Surgical and Medical Conditions
Section 2 Managing the Hospital Environment
6 Communication Skills in the Workplace
7 Record Keeping
8 Minimising Risk in the Practice
9 Infection Control
10 Managing the Pharmacy
Section 3 Managing the Operating Room
11 An Introduction to Theatre Management
12 Preparation of the Theatre for Surgery
13 Sterilising Equipment for Theatre
14 Care of Surgical Equipment
Section 4 The Operating Room – Surgical Nursing Activities
15 Preparation of the Patient for Theatre
16 Preparation of the Surgical Team
17 Assisting During Surgery
18 Skin Suturing Techniques
19 Practical Care of Wounds
20 Dentistry
Section 5 Anaesthesia
21 Introduction – Evaluation of the Patient
22 Inducing General Anaesthesia
23 Monitoring Anaesthesia
24 The Anaesthetic Machine
25 Anaesthetic Breathing Systems
Section 6 Diagnostic Imaging
26 Practical Radiography
27 Selection of Exposure Factors
28 Radiographic Positioning
29 The Processing of Radiographs
30 Appraisal of the Film
31 Contrast Studies and Other Imaging techniques
Section 7 Diagnostic Tests
32 Introduction – The Laboratory
33 Collection of Samples
34 Blood Tests
35 Urine Tests
36 Faecal Tests
37 Bacteriology Tests
38 Dermatology Tests
Section 8 Triage and Emergency Procedures
39 Initial Assessment
40 Emergency Procedures
41 Blood Transfusions
42 First Aid – The A–Z of Specific Conditions
Appendix: Calculations

Nota biograficzna:
Hilary Orpet and Perdi Welsh are Lecturers in Veterinary Nursing at the Royal Veterinary College, Hatfield, UK.

Okładka tylna:
Handbook of Veterinary Nursing presents essential guidance and helpful tips on developing and delivering high quality nursing care and skills. 
Fully updated, this easy–to–follow guide reflects recent changes to veterinary nursing qualifications, current terminology and drugs in use. The emphasis is on the importance of working methodically, using high quality procedures, to help the whole veterinary team ensure the most successful outcomes in animal care.
Written in note form for quick reference by veterinary nurses and technicians at all stages of their training and career, this will be invaluable for both exam revision and quick reference in clinic.
Contents include:
The nursing process in veterinary care, physical assessment of the patient, managing the hospital environment, managing the operating room, surgical nursing activities, anaesthesia, diagnostic imaging, diagnostic tests, triage and emergency procedures, and essential calculations for drugs, fluids, nutrition and radiographic exposures.


Key features:
– Gives clinical advice quickly and simply
– Written by authors with many years experience of veterinary nurse training and education
– Contains essential calculations
– Illustrated in colour throughout