Emergency care practitioners work in a variety of settings and provide emergency, urgent or unscheduled care. Use this guide to find information resources about emergency care including books, reports and journal articles.
NHS Improvement (2017) Improving patient flow through urgent and emergency care.
Buettner J (2017) Essentials for the A&E nurse: emergency department orientation in a nutshell, New York: Springer.
Dolan B and Holt L (2013) Accident and emergency: theory into practice (3rd edition), Edinburgh: Bailliere Tindall.
Hickman R (2018) Handbook of clinical nursing: critical and emergency care nursing, New York: Springer.
Holbery N, Newcombe P (editors) (2016) Emergency nursing at a glance, Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell.
Mattu A et al. (2017) Avoiding common errors in the emergency department (2nd edition), Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer.
Nixon V (2013) Professional practice in paramedic, emergency and urgent care, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Nutbeam T and Boylan M (2013) ABC of prehospital emergency medicine, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Perry M (2018) Head, neck and dental emergencies (2nd edition), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Shamil E (2017) 100 cases in emergency medicine and critical care. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
Soar J, Perkins G and Nolan J (2013) ABC of resuscitation, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Tait D, James J, Williams C and Barton D (2016) Acute and critical care in adult nursing (2nd edition), Learning Matters, London.
Wilson M, Guluma K, Hayden S (editors) (2016) Doing research in emergency and acute care: making order out of chaos, Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.
Journals of interest for emergency care. Use these links to see details of availability.
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