Nurse’s Fast Facts: Your Quick Source for Core Clinical Content
Through years of clinical practice and teaching, I have
observed that orientation to each major clinical nursing
specialty usually leads the novice to ask a somewhat predictable
set of questions ranging from specialty-related
communication, to assessment and anatomy, physiology,
and pathology involved in frequently seen conditions to
questions related to the planning and implementation of
patient care. Many excellent texts are available to provide
in-depth information related to these topics. Although the
use of such texts is essential to the acquisition of a thorough
knowledge of comprehensive patient care, these texts
are frequently too cumbersome to carry to the clinical
area, where on-the-spot information may be needed....
