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Battlefield and Disaster Nursing Pocket Guide

Overview

Written by military nurses, the Battlefield and Disaster Nursing Pocket Guide is the premier quick reference guide for battlefield nurses on the front lines. This pocket guide contains critical assessment and treatment information, as well as translation guides to ensure accurate communication in the field.

The care of patients with injuries received on the battlefield or in a disaster is specialized. Traumatic injuries may be more complex or unlike injuries seen in the hospital setting. In addition, the battlefield or disaster scene adds an additional level of complexity to medical care. Designed to fit in the pocket of a uniform, this unique pocket guide provides state-of-the-art, evidence-based recommendations for providing nursing care under exceptional conditions.

The field guide was designed to fit in the pocket of a field uniform and to stand up to rigorous field conditions.

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Table of Contents

Section I General
Primary/Secondary Assessment

Section II Trauma/Medical
Blast Injury
Burns
Cardiac
Hemodynamic Monitoring
Cardiac Trauma
Genitourinary/Renal
Heat-Related Injuries
Hypothermia Treatment
Infection Control/Infectious Diseases
Mental Health
Neurological
Obstetrics
Ocular
Orthopedic-Musculoskeletal
Pediatrics
Pulmonary/Thoracic
Shock Management/Hemorrhage Control
Soft-Tissue Trauma
Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis

Section III Treatment
Blood/Blood Products
Glycemic Control
Intraosseous Access
Labs
Medications
Pain Management
Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) Recovery

Section IV Appendix
Abbreviations
Disaster-Specific Management
Iraq and Afghan Translations
Transport
Patient Transfer Checklist
Zulu Time Chart


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TriService Nursing Research Program

The mission of the TriService Nursing Research Program is to provide resources for the conduct and use of research to foster excellence in military nursing care. To achieve this mission, TNRP aims to increase the military nursing research capacity by providing opportunities for nurses to engage in military nursing research, expand the breadth and depth of the research portfolio by encouraging and funding programs of research in TSNRP's focused areas of investigation, develop partnerships for collaborative research among services, components, institutions, disciplines, and agencies, and build an infrastructure to stimulate and support military nursing research to provide resources to support exploration of salient military nursing research issues.

Elizabeth Bridges, PhD, RN, CCNS, FCCM

Elizabeth Bridges has been a Critical Care nurse in the Air Force for over 21 years. For the past 5 years, she has served as Deputy Commander of the 59th Clinical Research Squadron and Senior Nurse Researcher at the 59th Medical Wing at Lackland AFB, Texas. In September 2004, she joined the faculty at the University of Washington. Elizabeth is a primary instructor for the US Air Force Critical Care Air Transport Team program, the Critical Care nursing program director at the Defense Institute for Medical Operations, and a core director for the international course Trauma Systems and Disaster Response. This latter course works with host nations around the world to assist them with the development of their trauma and disaster response systems and to build international health care bridges.

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