Critical Care Nursing (10th Ed., International Edition)
A Holistic Approach

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Language: English
Cover of the book Critical Care Nursing

Subject for Critical Care Nursing

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1352 p. · 21.3x27.6 cm · Hardback
Replaced by new edition
Fully revised and streamlined to include the most recent information, Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach, 10e provides students with the theory and application knowledge necessary to fully prepare them for the highly specialized and complicated technical world of critical care nursing.
These specially designed features assist students in providing competent and compassionate care to critically ill patients and their families:
· NEW!! Evidence-Based Practice Highlights focus attention on the importance of research-based practice and include significant excerpts from AACN practice alerts as well as guidelines from other relevant organizations.
· NEW!! Icons to identify drug therapy tables as well as laboratory and diagnostic tables focus attention on significant information.
· NEW!! Spotlight on Genetics box, appearing in selected chapters, is key to understanding how genetic factors influence disorders.
NEW!! Patient Safety boxes guide safe and effective practice by alerting the critical care nurse of risk factors, signs and symptoms, side effects, and complications.
· Considerations for the Older Patient boxes highlight the special needs of the fastest growing part of our population – older patients.
· Health History boxes summarize key areas that should be covered and relevant information that may be revealed during the health history.
· Collaborative Care Guides, presented in a tabular format containing outcomes and interventions, describe how the health care team works together to manage a patient’s illness and minimize complications.
· Teaching Guides help the critical care nurse to prepare patients and family members for procedures, assist patients and family members with understanding the illness they are dealing with, explain post-procedure or postoperative activities, or prepare a patient for discharge from the hospital.
· Nursing Diagnoses boxes use current NANDA terminology to summarize common nursing diagnoses for particular conditions.
Nursing Interventions tables and boxes highlight key information for the critical care nurse

Part 1 The Concept of Holism Applied to Critical Care Nursing Practice

1 Critical Care Nursing Practice: Promoting Excellence Through Caring, Collaboration, and Evidence

2 The Patient’s Experience With Critical Illness

3 The Family’s Experience With Critical Illness

4 Patient and Family Education in Critical Care

5 Relieving Pain and Providing Comfort

6 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues in Critical Care

Part 2 Professional Practice Issues in Critical Care

7 Ethical Issues in Critical Care Nursing

8 Legal Issues in Critical Care Nursing

9 Building a Professional Practice Model for Excellence in Critical Care Nursing

Part 3 Special Populations in Critical Care

10 The Critically Ill Pediatric Patient

11 The Critically Ill Pregnant Woman

12 The Critically Ill Older Patient

13 The Postanesthesia Patient

Part 4 Special Situations in Critical Care

14 Rapid Response Teams and Transport of the Critically Ill Patient

15 Disaster Management: Implications for the Critical Care Nurse

Part 5 Cardiovascular System

16 Anatomy and Physiology of the Cardiovascular System

17 Patient Assessment: Cardiovascular System

18 Patient Management: Cardiovascular System

19 Common Cardiovascular Disorders

20 Heart Failure

21 Acute Myocardial Infarction

22 Cardiac Surgery

Part 6 Respiratory System

23 Anatomy and Physiology of the Respiratory System

24 Patient Assessment: Respiratory System

25 Patient Management: Respiratory System

26 Common Respiratory Disorders

27 Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Part 7 Renal System

28 Anatomy and Physiology of the Renal System

29 Patient Assessment: Renal System

30 Patient Management: Renal System

31 Renal Failure

Part 8 Nervous System

32 Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System

33 Patient Assessment: Nervous System

34 Patient Management: Nervous System

35 Common Neurosurgical and Neurological Disorders

36 Traumatic Brain Injury

37 Spinal Cord Injury

Part 9 Gastrointestinal System

38 Anatomy and Physiology of the Gastrointestinal System

39 Patient Assessment: Gastrointestinal System

40 Patient Management: Gastrointestinal System

41 Common Gastrointestinal Disorders

Part 10 Endocrine System

42 Anatomy and Physiology of the Endocrine System

43 Patient Assessment: Endocrine System

44 Common Endocrine Disorders

Part 11 Hematological and Immune Systems

45 Anatomy and Physiology of the Hematological and Immune Systems

46 Patient Assessment: Hematological and Immune Systems

47 Organ and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

48 Common Immunological Disorders

49 Common Hematological Disorders

Part 12 Integumentary System

50 Anatomy and Physiology of the Integumentary System

51 Patient Assessment: Integumentary System

52 Patient Management: Integumentary System

53 Burns and Common Integumentary Disorders

Part 13 Multisystem Dysfunction

54 Shock, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

55 Trauma

56 Drug Overdose and Poisoning

Appendix: ACLS Guidelines