Emergency Care

Cochrane systematic reviews: anaesthesia, critical and emergency care group

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Care Quality Commission (2017) Meeting the quality challenge: sharing examples of best practice from clinical leaders in emergency departments, London: CQC.

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Care Quality Commission (2018) Under pressure: safely managing increased demand in emergency departments, London: CQC.

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Keeble E (2017) Focus on emergency hospital care for children and young people: what has changed in the past 10 years?, London: Health Foundation/Nuffield Trust.

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NHS Improvement (2017) Improving patient flow through urgent and emergency care.

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NICE Evidence: search for emergency care:

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National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2019) Trauma: interactive flowchart, London: NICE.

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Royal College of Nursing Emergency Care Association (2017) National curriculum and competency framework. Emergency nursing (level 1), London: RCN. 

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Royal College of Nursing Emergency Care Association (2017) National curriculum and competency framework. Emergency nursing (level 2), London: RCN. 

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We would like to thank the RCN Emergency Care member community for their input into the development of this subject guide

Peate I and Dutton H (2021) Acute nursing care: recognising and responding to medical emergencies. 2nd edn. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Buettner J (2017) Essentials for the A&E nurse: emergency department orientation in a nutshell. New York: Springer.

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Clarke D and Malecki-Ketchell A (eds.) (2016) Nursing the acutely ill adult: priorities in assessment and management. 2nd edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Crouch R, Charters A, Dawood M and Bennett P (eds.) (2016) Oxford handbook of emergency nursing. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Harrison R and Daly L (2019) A nurse's survival guide to acute medical emergencies. 3rd edn. Edinburgh: Elsevier.

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Hickman R, Alfes C and Fitzpatrick J (eds.) (2018) Handbook of clinical nursing: critical and emergency care nursing. New York: Springer.

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Holbery N and Newcombe P (eds.) (2016) Emergency nursing at a glance. Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell. 

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Mattu A, Chanmugam A, Swadron S, Woolridge D and Winters M (eds.) (2017) Avoiding common errors in the emergency department. 2nd edn. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer. 

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Nutbeam T and Boylan M (eds.) (2013) ABC of prehospital emergency medicine. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

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Perry M (ed.) (2018) Head, neck and dental emergencies. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Shamil E, Ravi P and Mistry D (2017) 100 cases in emergency medicine and critical care. Boca Raton: CRC Press.

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Soar J, Perkins G and Nolan J (eds.) (2013) ABC of resuscitation. 6th edn. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

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Tait D, James J, Williams C and Barton D (2016) Acute and critical care in adult nursing. 2nd edn. Learning Matters, London.

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Wilson M, Guluma K and Hayden S (eds.) (2016) Doing research in emergency and acute care: making order out of chaos. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.

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Use these links to see details of books the RCN libraries hold on each topic.

• Ambulance services and paramedic practice
• Emergency nursing
• Wounds and injuries

Use these links for details of journal articles on each topic.

• Emergency departments
• Emergency nursing practice
• Minor injuries units
• Paramedic practice

Journals of interest for emergency care. Use these links to see details of availability.

• Open access journal:
  BMC Emergency Medicine
• Emergency Nurse
• International Emergency Nursing
• JEN: Journal of Emergency Nursing
• Journal of Paramedic Practice