first aid

The traditional and current purpose of this book is to provide skills and information to manage emergency conditions. Information is presented in an order which is relevant to the enquire. The student learns how to deal with the emergency and then reads the background to the crisis  and how, perhaps, it could have been avoided.

This book is concern blur the boundaries between hospital and community care. Our primary aim has been to equip the student with the knowledge to deal with crises, but we hope that we shared, in these units, our concern to ensure that nurses are trained also to try to avoid them.