Australian Nurses' Dictionary - E-Book

Rhonda Hawley, Jennie King

Description

The forth edition of this well-established text has been updated to reflect the most current guidelines, terminology, policies and procedures. Australian Nurses' Dictionary 4th edition retains its user-friendly style and compact size and continues to provide Australian nursing students with local content, relevant, clinically focussed diagrams, the pronunciation guide, easy cross-referencing and useful appendices.

• More than 5,500 entries
• Compact size and user friendly format
• Written specifically for our local market

Sujets

• Dictionaries
• Medical
• Médecine
• Terminology

Informations

• Publié par: Bailliere Tindall
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 3
• EAN13: 9780729578295
• Langue: English

Extrait

Table of Contents

Cover image
Front Matter
Copyright
Acknowledgment
Preface
Pronunciation guide
Contributors
Aa
Bb
Cc
Dd
Ee
Ff
Gg
Hh
Ii
Jj
Kk
Ll
Mm
Nn
Oo
Pp
Qq
Rr
Ss
Tt
Uu
Vv
Ww
Xx
Yy
Zz
Appendix 1. Commonly used prefixes, suffixes and combining forms
Appendix 2. Commonly used nursing abbreviations
Appendix 3. Units of measurement
Appendix 4. Table of normal values
Appendix 5. Drug control
Appendix 6. Drug calculations
Appendix 7. Resuscitation
Appendix 8. Nutrition
Appendix 9. Immunisation
Appendix 10. Code of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses in Australia
Appendix 11. Aspects of nursing and the law
Appendix 12. Infection control guidelines
Appendix 13. Useful addresses
Front Matter
Australian Nurses’ Dictionary
4th edition
This publication has been carefully reviewed and checked to ensure that the content is as accurate and current as possible at time of publication. We would recommend, however, that the reader verify any procedures, treatments, drug dosages or legal content described in this book. Neither the authors, the contributors, nor the publisher assume any liability for injury and/or damage to persons or property arising from any error in or omission from this publication.

Australian Nurses’ Dictionary
4th edition
Jennie King BA(Hons), RN
Clinical Nurse Consultant (Research), Northern Sydney Central Coast Health; and Clinical Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sydney
Rhonda Hawley PhD, RN, RMN, Cardio-Thoracic Cert, DipNursEd, BA, MEd
Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing (NSW & ACT), Australian Catholic University
Adapted from the original written by
Barbara F Weller BA, MSC, RGN, RSCN, RNT
Independent Nurse Consultant, Honorary Consultant Lecturer, Thames Valley University, London

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Copyright

Baillière Tindall
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This edition © 2008 Elsevier Australia. Reprinted 2008
1st Australian edition 1991; 2nd edn 1998; 3rd edn 2004
1st UK edition 1912; 24th UK edition 2002
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Every attempt has been made to trace and acknowledge copyright, but in some cases this may not have been possible. The publisher apologises for any accidental infringement and would welcome any information to redress the situation.
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
King, Jennifer.
Australian nurses’ dictionary.
4th ed.
ISBN 978-0-7295-3829-9 (pbk.).
1. Nursing—Australia—Dictionaries. 2. Medicine— Australia—Dictionaries.
3. Nursing—Dictionaries. 4. Medicine—Dictionaries. I. Hawley, Rhonda.
II. Weller, Barbara F. (Barbara Fiona). III. Title.
610.7303
Publishing Editor: Meg O’Hanlon
Publishing Services Manager: Helena Klijn
Edited by Kay Waters
Proofread by Tim Learner
Additional illustrations by Joe Lucia
Cover design by Avril Makula
Internal design and typesetting by Egan-Reid
Printed in China by China Translation and Printing Services
Acknowledgment
The publisher would like to thank the American College of Surgeons for their kind permission to reproduce the figure in the Lund and Browder chart.

References

Forrester, K.; Griffiths, D., Essentials of Law for Health Professionals . 2nd edn. ( 2005 ) Mosby , Sydney .
Gatford, J.D.; Phillips, N., Nursing Calculations . 7th edn. ( 2006 ) Churchill Livingstone , Edinburgh .
Harris, P.; Nagy, S.; Vardaxis, N., Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions . ( 2006 ) Elsevier , Sydney .
Schneider, Z.; Whitehead, D.; Elliott, D.; et al. , Nursing and Midwifery Research: Methods and appraisal for evidence-based practice . 3rd edn. ( 2007 ) Mosby , Sydney .
Preface
It is over fifteen years since the first Australian edition of Baillière's Nurses’ Dictionary was published, and this latest revision has been no less a challenge. The Australian Nurses’ Dictionary 4th edition reflects the changes that have occurred in Australian nursing since that time. It has been expanded to include specific midwifery-related terms, so that it can also be useful to student or practising midwives. The inclusion of information technology terms, and the expansion of terminology related to complementary therapies, management, education and ethics, are further features of this new edition.
The guiding principles in the revision have been to establish direct relevance to Australian conditions, and to provide a quick reference source for students and nurses in the clinical setting. For more extensive background to specific entries, the reader is referred to encyclopaedic nursing dictionaries.
This edition has relied upon the support of nurses and allied health personnel in many areas. In particular the authors would like to thank the following, who have acted as consultants in the revisions of the appendices: Andrea Marshall, Terry Maunsell, Anne Louise Elsom and Marjorie Atchan. Thank you to Judy Reid for her review of the 3rd edition and recommendations for this 4th edition; to Judy Mannix for her reviews also for both editions; and to Tony Smith, John Hawley and Graham Cawthorne for their encouragement and invaluable support in meeting deadlines.
Jennie King and Rhonda Hawley
Pronunciation guide
All pronunciations in this dictionary are transcribed using ordinary English-spelling letters, with the exception of the upside-down ‘e’ or ‘schwa’ (ə). All pronunciations are given in parentheses immediately following the bold headword and reflect general Australian English in current, spoken usage . Where alternative pronunciations for a word are given, or where alternative spellings or synonyms are given, these are separated by commas. For example:
medicine ('medəsən, ֽmedsən)
nerone (neuron) (ֽ nyoo·rohn , ֽnyoo·ron)
Alternative pronunciations are often given in truncated form with hyphens. For example:
encephalic ('enkəֽfalik, -ֽensə-)
Single letters represent single sounds. Where two or more characters are combined, as in the lists below, these also represent precise sounds.
Vowel sounds a as in bad (bad) ah as in father ('fahdhə) air as in hair (hair) aw as in water ('wawtə) ay as in fatal ('fayt'l) e as in bed (bed) ee as in fetus ('feetəs) i as in film (film) ie as in bite (biet) i·ə as in chloropsia (klaw'ropsi·ə) iə as in fear (fiə) ieə as in diet ('dieət) o as in body (ֽbodee) oh as in choke (chohk) oo as in boot (boot) oo as in cure (kyooə) ow as in now (now) ow as in hour (owə) oy as in goitre ('goytə) oyə as in soya ('soyə) u as in tongue (tung) uh as in foot (fuht) ə as in mother ('mudhə) ər as in bird (bərd) y as in yet (yet)

Consonant sounds b as in baby ('baybee) ch as in chat (chaht) d as in digit ('dijət) f as in fever ('feevə) g as in gag (gag) h as in heal (heel) j as in jump (jump) k as in king (king) l as in light (liet) m as in man (man) n as in need (need) ng as in sung (sung) nh as in en passant (onh 'pasonh) ny as in nutrition (nyoo'trishən) p as in pelvis ('pelvəs) r as in rod (rod) s as in sac (sak) sh as in fish (fish) t as in test (test) th as in thirst (thərst) v as in vein (vayn) w as in weight (wayt) z as in zero ('ziə·roh) zh as in pleasure ('plezhə)

Stress marks
Stress marks are used where the word or term has more than one syllable.
The stress mark is placed before the syllable to be stressed. The primary stressed syllable is indicated by a superior stress mark (') and secondary stress by a subscript stress mark (ֽ). For example:
respiration (ֽrespə'rayshən)
respirator ('respəֽraytə)
respiratory (rəs'pirətree)

Apostrophe
Where a consonant is preceded by an apostrophe, this indicates that the consonant should be pronounced as a separate syllable. For example:
hospital ('hospət'l)

Centred full stop
Where two letters occur together that may be mistaken for a different sound from that intended, a centred full stop is added to separate the characters. For example:
myopia (miə'ohpi·ə)

Sub-entries
Sub-entries are listed alphabetically under the main entry, with the initial letter(s) of the main entry repeated. For example:
abdomen
Acute a.
Pendulous a.
Scaphoid (navicular) a.
Contributors
Marjorie Atchan, RN, RM, BN, C&FHN, MEd/Wrk, IBCLC <