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....