At a Glance (Nursing and Healthcare): Respiratory Nursing at a Glance
At a Glance (Nursing and Healthcare): Respiratory Nursing at a Glance
Editor/Author
Preston, Wendy and Kelly, Carol
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Wiley
Single-User Purchase Price:
$45.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$67.50
ISBN: 978-1-119-04830-5
Category: Health & Medicine - Nursing
Image Count:
56
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
From the publishers of the market leading at a Glance series, and in collaboration with the Association of Respiratory Nurses (ARNS), comes this easy-to-read, highly visual guide bringing together key principles of Respiratory Nursing. Highly visual, each topic is covered in a two-page spread, making it easy to quickly read up on key information and grasp the essentials of respiratory care, as well as a focus on preventative measures to prevent, minimise and control respiratory disease.
Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- About ARNS
- Part 1: The context of respiratory nursing
- 1: The origins of respiratory nursing
- The concept of specialist nursing
- What is a specialist nurse?
- The respiratory nurse specialist
- Todays respiratory nurses
- Summary
- 2: Working in secondary care
- The role of the respiratory nurse
- What is involved?
- Advancing practice
- National Early Warning Score
- 3: Working in primary care
- Practice nursing
- Walk-in centres and urgent care
- Community care
- 4: Ambulatory, intermediate and tertiary care
- Ambulatory care
- Intermediate care
- Tertiary care
- 5: The future of respiratory nursing
- Respiratory nurses
- Provision of health care
- The respiratory population
- Respiratory nursing in the future
- 6: Respiratory public health
- Population level
- Commissioning
- Interventions at an individual level
- Part 2: Respiratory health
- 7: The respiratory system
- The mechanics of breathing
- The work of breathing
- Respiration
- Transport of gases
- Acid–base balance
- Volumes and capacities
- The control of breathing
- 8: Preventing respiratory disease
- Chronic respiratory disease
- Primary prevention
- Secondary and tertiary prevention
- 9: Epidemiology and contributing factors
- Contributing factors
- 10: Smoking and smoking cessation
- Tobacco
- Respiratory health burden of tobacco smoking and prevalence
- Smoking cessation
- Other drugs
- Electronic cigarettes and vaping
- 11: Exercise and pulmonary rehabilitation
- Exercise
- Benefits of exercise
- Pulmonary rehabilitation
- PR education
- Inclusion and exclusion criteria
- PR assessment
- 12: Nutrition and hydration
- Malnutrition and screening
- Nutrition and hydration support
- 13: The upper airways
- Practical advice for systemic antihistamine use
- Practical advice for topical corticosteroid use
- AR and asthma together
- 14: Respiratory disease and sexuality
- What is it all about?
- Sex and respiratory disease
- How to raise the issue?
- Is it all about breathlessness?
- The nurse's role
- Part 3: Assessment and diagnosis of respiratory disease
- 15: Respiratory history taking
- Why take a history?
- Gathering information
- 16: Respiratory clinical examination
- Inspection
- Palpation
- Percussion
- Auscultation
- 17: Measuring dyspnoea
- Dyspnoea
- Causes
- Assessing dyspnoea
- Treatment of dyspnoea
- Summary
- 18: Sputum assessment
- Sputum
- Importance of clinical history in sputum assessment
- Obtaining a sample
- Sample observations
- 19: Pulse oximetry
- Indications for use
- Limitations of oximetry
- Optimising accuracy of pulse oximetry readings
- Interpreting results
- Nursing considerations
- 20: Blood gas sampling and analysis
- Acid–base balance
- Disorders of acid–base balance
- Obtaining a blood gas sample
- Capillary blood gas
- 21: Spirometry
- Undertaking the test
- Interpreting results
- Other pulmonary function tests
- Lung volume measurement
- Gas transfer
- 22: Measuring quality in healthcare
- Patient reported experience measures
- Patient reported outcome measures
- Quality of life
- 23: Assessing anxiety and depression
- Screening
- Signs and symptoms
- Organic causes
- Self-report measures
- Frequency of assessment
- Which patient reported outcome measure?
- Inclusivity
- Family
- Part 4: Respiratory diseases
- 24: Asthma
- Symptoms
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Management
- 25: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Definition of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Causes of COPD
- Diagnosis
- Assessment
- Management of stable COPD
- 26: Pleural disease
- Pneumothorax
- Empyema
- Pleural effusion
- Treatment
- Pleuritis
- 27: Lung cancer
- Symptoms
- Diagnosis
- Types of lung cancer
- Staging
- Treatment
- Symptom management
- 28: Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome
- What is obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome?
- Predisposing factors
- Symptoms of OSAS and associated problems
- Diagnosis
- Classification of OSA
- Treatment
- Driving and the DVLA
- 29: Acute respiratory infections
- Upper respiratory tract infection
- Bronchitis
- Lower respiratory tract infection
- Pneumonia
- Treatment
- 30: Cystic fibrosis
- History of cystic fibrosis
- What is cystic fibrosis?
- Physiological effects
- Treatment
- 31: Bronchiectasis
- What is bronchiectasis?
- What are the associated symptoms of an exacerbation of bronchiectasis?
- Protocol of investigations
- Causes and association of bronchiectasis
- Prevalence
- Treatment
- 32: Occupational and environmental lung disease
- Occupational asthma
- Pneumoconioses and asbestos-related diseases
- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
- Environmental respiratory disease
- 33: Interstitial lung disease
- Connective tissue disease-related ILD
- Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias
- Symptoms
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- 34: Sarcoidosis
- Symptoms
- Diagnosis
- Calcium and vitamin D
- Treatment
- 35: Pulmonary tuberculosis
- Signs and symptoms
- Diagnosis
- Treatment and case management
- Drug resistance
- Infection control
- 36: Venous thromboembolism and pulmonary embolism
- What causes a thrombo-embolism?
- DVT
- Pulmonary embolus
- Treatment
- Warfarin
- Newer anticoagulants
- Low molecular weight heparins
- Thrombolysis or embolectomy
- Ambulatory care
- 37: HIV and respiratory disease
- HIV/AIDS and respiratory disease
- Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
- Tuberculosis
- Disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex
- Fungal and bacterial infection
- Lymphoma
- Kaposi's sarcoma
- Screening
- Part 5: Models of care
- 38: Care pathways and care bundles
- Background
- Benefits
- Examples in practice
- Care pathways
- 39: Self-management in chronic respiratory disease
- The case for self-management in chronic respiratory disease
- Self-management
- Self-management in practice
- 40: Telemedicine and telehealth
- Advantages of telehealthcare
- Using telehealthcare
- 41: Patient education
- Why is it important?
- Understanding the educational process
- Teaching strategies
- 42: Voluntary organisations and patient support groups
- Summary and further resources
- Part 6: Respiratory medication
- 43: Pharmacology and prescribing
- Bronchodilators
- Inhaled corticosteroids
- Guidelines
- Nurse prescribing
- 44: Inhaler technique
- Dry powder inhalers
- Inhaler aids
- 45: Nebuliser therapy
- Use of nebulisers
- Nebuliser drivers and equipment
- Education of user
- 46: Emergency oxygen therapy
- Commencing oxygen therapy in acutely ill patients
- Ongoing care of patients requiring oxygen therapy in the acute setting
- 47: Domiciliary oxygen therapy
- Long-term oxygen therapy
- Ambulatory oxygen therapy
- Palliative oxygen therapy
- Short burst oxygen therapy
- 48: Other routes of administration
- Antibiotics
- Vaccinations
- Intravenous bronchodilators
- Methylxanthines
- Magnesium sulfate
- Leukotriene receptor agonists
- Mucolytics
- Anti-IgE monoclonal antibodies
- 49: Adherence and concordance
- Classifying adherence
- Optimising adherence
- Part 7: Acute care of the respiratory patient
- 50: Respiratory failure
- What is respiratory failure?
- Failure of gas exchange
- The mechanical pump
- Types of respiratory failure
- Treatment options
- 51: Pre-hospital care
- Triaging a respiratory patient
- Managing an acute exacerbation pre-hospital
- Scoring and decision tools
- 52: Non-invasive and invasive ventilation
- Non-invasive ventilation
- Invasive mechanical ventilation
- 53: Pleural procedures and management
- Intercostal drains
- Indwelling pleural catheters
- Medical thoracoscopy
- Pleurodesis
- 54: Tracheostomy care and management
- Types of tracheostomy tube
- Unplanned removal of tracheostomy tube
- Care of inner tube
- Securing the tube and wound care
- Humidification
- Suction
- Speaking valves
- Nursing care
- Part 8: Supportive and palliative care
- 55: Communication
- Why it is important?
- What do we know?
- SAGE & THYME ®
- Breaking bad news
- 56: Psychosocial impact of respiratory disease
- The patient's perspective
- Quality of life
- Coping strategies
- Summary
- 57: Management of dyspnoea
- Pharmacological management
- Non-pharmacological management
- Summary
- 58: Anxiety and depression in respiratory disease
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Screening
- Treatment of anxiety and depression
- Summary
- 59: Other symptom management
- Cough
- Wheeze
- Sputum
- Pain
- Headache, blurred vision and restlessness from respiratory acidosis
- 60: NIV as a domiciliary therapy
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Neuromuscular disease
- Obesity hypoventilation syndrome
- Restrictive thoracic disease
- Where to initiate NIV
- Ventilators
- Compliance and monitoring
- Oxygen
- 61: End-of-life care
- End-of-Life Care Strategy (2008)
- Advance care planning
- Preferred priorities of care
- Community palliative care teams
- 62: Families and carers
- Breathe Easy groups
- Family encounters when someone is dying
- Helping the family to cope
- References