Nurse's Pocket Guide

Aortic stenosis, 797
Aplastic anemia, 798
Appendicitis, 798
Application of nursing process, 7–16
Application of scientific knowledge, 5
ARDS. See Acute respiratory distress syndrome
Arrhythmia, cardiac, 798
Art, connections with, 65, 647
Arterial insufficiency, 58
Arterial occlusive disease, peripheral, 798
Arthritis
rheumatoid, 798–799
septic, 799
Arthroplasty, 799
Aspiration, risk for, 98–101
Assessment tools for choosing nursing diagnoses, 20–40
Asthma, 799–800
Atherosclerosis. See Peripheral vascular disease
Athlete’s foot, 800
Atrial fibrillation, 800
Atrial flutter, 800
Atrial tachycardia, 800
Attachment, parent/child, risk for impaired, 102–104
Attention, 5
Attention deficit disorder, 785, 800
Augmented labor, 852
Autistic disorder, 801
Autonomic dysreflexia, 105–108
risk for, 108–111
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Barbiturate abuse, 801
Battered child syndrome, 801–802
Behavior, risk-prone health, 111–115
Benign prostatic hyperplasia, 802
Biologics, 206, 208
Bipolar disorder, 802–803
Blindness, snow, 894
Blood glucose control, 56
Blood glucose, risk for unstable, 341–345
Blood transfusion reaction, 901
Body image, disturbed, 115–120
Bone cancer, 803
Borderline personality disorder, 803–804
Botulism, 804
Bowel incontinence, 123–127
Brain
abscess, 783
concussion, 817
tumor, 804–805
Breast
cancer, 805
engorgement, 134
INDEX 949