Textbook covers all emergencies seen in the ER, in the hospital, and at home. Designed for emergency nurses, critical care nurses, and all nurses confronted with emergencies, as well as, legal nurse consultants. The emergency standards-of-care are covered step-by-step from airway evaluation to discharge instructions. Each of the 36 chapters covers a different emergency and includes commonly used medications, typical physicians orders, worse case scenarios, interview questions, physical exam techniques, pathophysiology, exam tips, and little known practical information. Separate chapter on triage. NEW chapter on homeland security and terrorism; donning and doffing, disaster triage, B-Nice exposures, and more. Makes passing the CEN easy. (Nursing continuing education 26 contact hours for $25 posttest sold separately.) ISBN 0967811228 softcover 630 pp. 2004
Patricia Ann Bemis is a registered nurse who is certified in emergency nursing. She is the president of the Space Coast chapter of the Emergency Nursing Association and the president of the National Nurses in Business Association. She is a leader in the field of nurse entrepreneurship and an experienced national speaker on both clinical and nurse entrepreneurial issues. She wrote a monthly column in RN Magazine titled Nurse Biz and writes one in a medical-legal newspaper.
Bemis has written several books, including: Emergency Nursing Bible, 4th edition (a peer-reviewed textbook); Self-Employed RN: Choices, Business Aspects, and Marketing Strategies; and Nurse Entrepreneurs, Tales of Nurses in Business. In addition, she developed home-study courses on DVDs for RN self-employment, emergency nursing, and for the business side of legal nurse consulting. She travels throughout the country teaching on-site classes for hospitals to prepare nurses to sit for the emergency nursing certification exam.
Forensic nursing science is included in all her educational products. For example, she teaches emergency nurses how to implement the clinical aspects of forensic nursing science in the emergency department. She works in the arena of legal nurse consulting as an expert witness in healthcare employment. She is an online instructor for the University of Florida for the Forensic Nursing Science Certificate Program, a program that she designed. She also teaches marketing for a legal nurse consulting course for the University of Central Florida.
