Issues in Accident and Emergency Nursing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. The emergency nurse practitioner

   • A. McKenna, C. Woolwich, K. Burgess

   Pages 1-28

3. Liaison psychiatry in A and E

   • S. P. Edgeley, D. W. Rowell

   Pages 29-44

4. Trauma centres in the UK: a nursing perspective

   • S. Davies, I. Wood

   Pages 45-68

5. The development of trauma education for A and E nurses in the UK

   • L. Hadfield-Law

   Pages 69-87

6. An introduction to quality issues in the A and E department

   • J. Dutton

   Pages 88-106

7. Technology in the A and E department: a nursing perspective

   • J. Dutton

   Pages 107-122

8. Solving problems in the A and E department: a basis for nursing practice

   • L. Sbaih

   Pages 123-149

9. The moral problems involved in the concept of patient triage in the A and E department

   • C. Jones, G. Hall

   Pages 150-164

10. The elderly person in A and E

    • P. Kingston, A. Hopwood

    Pages 165-182

11. Care of the child in the A and E department

    • R. Burton

    Pages 183-214

12. Back Matter

    Pages 215-237

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valuable way of presenting information within the book and purposely sought. It is hoped that exposure to individual chapters within the book will encourage readers to consider issues and problems from perspectives other than the ones with which they are familiar and perhaps comfortable. The reader is then responsible for the considera­ tion, adoption or challenge to the content of any chapter. During the process of exploration of content, reference should always be made to its potential place within clinical practice and its influence upon the delivery of patient and family care. Although it is acknowledged that each A and E department is different and that the environment and local resources affect the translation of theory into practice, questioning and subsequent challenge of the environ­ ment, work issues and ideas should help the reader to widen the debate about nursing in A and E and its anticipated growth into the next century. The intended outcome of such analysis by the reader may be to challenge practice. Alternatively information presented within the book may support or enhance work currently being under­ taken within a number of A and E departments. With reference to the format, the book is not intended to be read from cover to cover. Instead the reader will find the book a valuable source of information that can be dipped into when required, a book where the sampling of arguments put forward by various contributors can be considered.

• Trauma
• care
• nursing

• Department of Health Care Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

  Lynn Sbaih

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