Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing - An Evidence-based Approach to Musculoskeletal Care - Tapa blanda

Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing provides practitioners working in orthopaedic and musculoskeletal trauma settings with the essential evidence, guidance and knowledge required to underpin effective practice. This comprehensive and contemporary textbook explores the variety of adult and paediatric clinical settings where orthopaedic and trauma practitioners work, including acute wards, clinics, community hospitals, nursing homes and patients' homes. Divided into 5 sections, this book looks at: key issues in orthopaedic and musculoskeletal trauma care; specialist practice issues; common orthopaedic conditions and their care and management; musculoskeletal trauma care; and care of children and young people. Suitable for students at degree level as well as those clinicians practicing in more advanced orthopaedic and trauma care roles, Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing is a foremost authority on orthopaedic and musculoskeletal practice for both students and practitioners. Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing: * Is strongly supported by the latest evidence, with chapters summarizing evidence, with reference to relevant and seminal research * Offers practical guidance based on the relevant evidence * Focuses on the perspective of the patient with patient narrative and case studies throughout * Includes a section specifically dealing with children and young people

Sonya Clarke is Senior Teaching Fellow within the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University, Belfast where she is the pathway leader for orthopaedics and fracture trauma nursing for the child, young person, adult and older person. She is an Advisory committee member of the International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing. Julie Santy-Tomlinson is Senior Lecturer of Nursing at The University of Hull. She has a clinical nursing background in orthopaedics and trauma and working with older people. She is Co-Editor of the International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing, and was formerly Vice Chair, Royal College of Nursing Society of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing, 2005-2009.