Nurse and Patient Education Tina T. Smith Linda A. Cayan Julie L. Millenbruch KEY TERMS Adult Learning Principles Certification Competency Competency Assessment Competency Validation Curriculum Health Literacy High Fidelity Human…
Standards of Practice Sharon M. Weinstein KEY TERMS Beneficence Body of Evidence Competencies Educational Requirements Fidelity Global Authority Nonmaleficence Practice Criteria Scope of Practice Standards of Practice THE STANDARDS The…
Nursing Role and Responsibilities Sharon M. Weinstein KEY TERMS Accountability Advocate Anesthesia Autonomy Blood Bank Credentials Infusion Nurse Specialist Infusion Nursing Team Innovator Knowledge Sharer Magnet Recognition Magnet Team Member…
Minimizing Risk and Enhancing Performance Sharon M. Weinstein KEY TERMS Benchmarking Competence Competency Culture of safety Documentation External drivers Licensed Independent Practitioner Malpractice Outcomes Patient Safety Performance Improvement Plan of…
History of Infusion Therapy Sharon M. Weinstein KEY TERMS Hypotonicity Isotonic Parenteral Pyrogens Safety Quill and Bladder Standards of Practice EARLY HISTORY AND METHODOLOGY Almost 400 years have passed since…
ACUTE BACTERIAL MENINGITIS KAREN L. ROOS, ALLAN R. TUNKEL, DIEDERIK VAN DE BEEK, AND W. MICHAEL SCHELD The meningitis syndrome has been recognized for centuries. Hippocrates realized the important intracranial…
BRAIN ABSCESS MATTHIAS KLEIN, HANS-WALTER PFISTER, ALLAN R. TUNKEL, AND W. MICHAEL SCHELD DEFINITION Brain abscess is a focal intracerebral infection that begins as a localized area of cerebritis and…
IMAGING OF INTRACRANIAL INFECTIONS CARRIE P. MARDER AND KATHLEEN R. FINK Intracranial infections are usually diagnosed by clinical assessment and laboratory investigations, particularly cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis, combined with radiologic…
EPIDURAL ABSCESS HANS-WALTER PFISTER, MATTHIAS KLEIN, ALLAN R. TUNKEL, AND W. MICHAEL SCHELD SPINAL EPIDURAL ABSCESS First described by the Italian anatomist Morgagni in the eighteenth century, a spinal epidural…
