ISBN-10:
0323091784
ISBN-13:
9780323091787
Pub. Date:
05/01/2013
Publisher:
Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN-10:
0323091784
ISBN-13:
9780323091787
Pub. Date:
05/01/2013
Publisher:
Elsevier Health Sciences

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Overview

Praised for its comprehensive coverage and clear organization, Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management, 7th Edition is the go-to critical care nursing text for both practicing nurses and nursing students preparing for clinicals. Nine sections highlight the alterations seen in critical care and make it easy to understand the unique challenges of critical care nursing. An abundance of learning tools such as Patient Safety Alerts, Evidence-Based Practice boxes, NIC interventions, case studies, Pharmacologic Management boxes, and more give you a better understanding of clinical practice and help you reference vital information quickly and easily.

  • Consistent organization within each body-system unit allows you to use this book as a one-stop resource for your critical care nursing education, as well as a reference for the relevant assessment techniques, lab values, and patient management principles needed by practicing nurses.
  • Evidence-Based Practice boxes reinforce practice guidelines for both collaborative and nursing care.
  • Case studies in each chapter help you internalize and apply chapter content to clinical situations.
  • Pharmacologic Management tables offer quick summaries of the drugs most often used in critical care.
  • Patient Safety Alerts provide key information for special safety issues to keep safety in the forefront of your mind.
  • Nursing Management Plans of Care appendix provides detailed, clinically-relevant care plans tied to 35 different NANDA nursing diagnoses.
  • Highlighted QSEN content makes it easy to identify QSEN competencies as they relate to critical care nursing.
  • Internet Resources box provides a list of key websites from leading organizations in critical care.
  • Combined chapter on shock, sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome makes understanding similar physiologic processes easier.
  • Chapter summaries provide quick study guides by organizing key information in the chapter.
  • New! 6-second, standard ECG strips help you learn to identify wave forms and accurately reflect what you’ll use in practice.
  • New equipment information and photos accurately depicts what you’ll encounter in a modern critical care unit.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780323091787
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date: 05/01/2013
Edition description: Older Edition
Pages: 1232
Product dimensions: 8.54(w) x 10.68(h) x 1.46(d)

Table of Contents

UNIT I. FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL CARE NURSING

  1. Critical Care Nursing Practice
  2. Ethical Issues
  3. Legal Issues
  4. Genetics in Critical Care NEW!
  5. Patient and Family Education
  6. Psychosocial Alterations
  7. Sleep Alterations and Management
  8. Nutrition Alterations and Management
  9. Pain and Pain Management
  10. Sedation, Agitation, Delirium: Assessment and Management
  11. End-of-Life Issues
  12. UNIT II. SPECIAL POPULATIONS

  13. The Pediatric Patient in the Adult Critical Care Unit
  14. High-Risk and Critical Care in Obstetric Issues
  15. Gerontologic Alterations and Management
  16. Perianesthesia Management
  17. UNIT III. CARDIOVASCULAR ALTERATIONS

  18. Cardiovascular Anatomy and Physiology
  19. Cardiovascular Clinical Assessment
  20. Cardiovascular Diagnostic Procedures
  21. Cardiovascular Disorders
  22. Cardiovascular Therapeutic Management
  23. UNIT IV. PULMONARY ALTERATIONS

  24. Pulmonary Anatomy and Physiology
  25. Pulmonary Clinical Assessment
  26. Pulmonary Diagnostic Procedures
  27. Pulmonary Disorders
  28. Pulmonary Therapeutic Management
  29. UNIT V. NEUROLOGIC ALTERATIONS

  30. Neurologic Anatomy and Physiology
  31. Neurologic Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
  32. Neurologic Disorders and Therapeutic Management
  33. UNIT VI. RENAL ALTERATIONS

  34. Renal Anatomy and Physiology
  35. Renal Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
  36. Renal Disorders and Therapeutic Management
  37. UNIT VII. GASTROINTESTINAL ALTERATIONS

  38. Gastronintestinal Anatomy and Physiology
  39. Gastronintestinal Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
  40. Gastronintestinal Disorders and Therapeutic Management
  41. UNIT VIII. ENDOCRINE ALTERATIONS

  42. Endocrine Anatomy and Physiology
  43. Endocrine Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
  44. Endocrine Disorders and Therapeutic Management
  45. UNIT IX. MULTISYSTEM ALTERATIONS

  46. Trauma
  47. Shock
  48. Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
  49. Burns
  50. Organ Donation and Transplantation
  51. Hematologic Disorders and Oncologic Emergencies

APPENDIX A: Nursing Management Plans of Care

APPENDIX B: Physiologic Formulas for Critical Care

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