Lippincott Nursing Pocket Cards

Confidently face everyday nursing challenges with Lippincott® Nursing Pocket Cards. Let these popular cards keep you informed and accurate, offering quick reference on a wide range of issues at the bedside, from administering IV fluids, infection control, and hemodynamic monitoring to treating pneumonia, sepsis, heart failure and more.
 
These quick-read pocket cards provide both new and experienced nurses the vital reminders needed to provide safe, effective care.

Stay sharp and accurate with this on-the-spot reference tool: 

• Boxed set of 35 long-lasting, laminated, 5” x 7” pocket cards
• Two-sided, keep-it-handy size cards that are made for quick reference, with need-to-know information that supports effective decision-making
• Cards offer definitions, care essentials, analyses, and interventions for areas such as:
  • Cardiac nursing – Hemodynamics, myocardial infarction, heart failure, heart failure management
  • Critical care nursing – Arterial blood gas (ABG) analysis, mechanical ventilation settings and basic modes, caring for the mechanically ventilated patient, pneumonia, sepsis
  • Dermatology nursing – The ABDCEs of melanoma
  • Endocrinology and diabetes – Inpatient diabetes care management, acute complications of diabetes, discharge planning for diabetics, thyroid disorders
  • Gerontology – Differentiate delirium, dementia, and depression
  • Infection control/ID – Key facts about influenza, sexually transmitted infections
  • Infusion nursing – Complications of peripheral IV therapy and central IV therapy: preventing central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), IV fluids
  • Medical-surgical nursing – Fluids and electrolytes, isolation precautions, calculations
  • Neurology – Cranial nerves, stroke, alteplase injection for acute ischemic stroke
  • Nutrition – Parenteral nutrition
  • Wound care/ostomy/continence – Pressure injuries, negative pressure wound therapy, incontinence, ostomy care
• Cards clarify difficult to understand pathophysiology such as the difference between syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) and diabetes insipidus (DI), or between hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism
• Created for nurses, by nurses, to simplify challenging concepts