High-Acuity Nursing, Global Edition (6^th Ed.)

The most focused, up-to-date, easy-to-understand guide to high-acuity nursing in all care settings.

High-Acuity Nursing, Sixth Edition brings together the knowledge needed to care for adult patients with complex conditions and unpredictable outcomes, across settings ranging from critical care to high-skill long-term facilities. It makes critical pathophysiological concepts clinically applicable to high-acuity patients; enhances students? clinical decision-making skills; provides extensive and immediate feedback; and supports self-paced learning. This tightly focused guide has been substantially reorganized to reflect faculty and student feedback. This edition adds bulleted chapter summaries; NCLEX-style posttest items; updated Emerging Evidence boxes; coverage of oncological emergencies, hypertensive crises, and acute aortic problems; adult doses in Related Pharmacotherapy boxes; and a brand-new chapter on complications associated with metabolic stress response.

Teaching and Learning Experience

This book is designed to help learners rapidly gain mastery and confidence. It provides:

• Focused coverage of topics specifically related to high-acuity nursing: Helps learners gain command of crucial content without ever feeling overwhelmed by its volume and complexity
• Links pathophysiological principles and clinical care: Helps learners translate pathophysiological principles into care decisions, and understand the rationale for those decisions
• Learner-focused ?active learning? with strong pedagogical support : ?Chunks? complex information into small, discrete sections, provides quizzes after each section to ensure mastery, and offers extensive pedagogical support for more effective study

• I. Special Topics
• 1. High-Acuity Nursing
• 2. Holistic Care of the Patient and Family
• 3. The Older Adult High-Acuity Patient
• 4. Acute Pain in the High-Acuity Patient
• II. Hematologic (Cellular Function)
• 5. Determinants and Assessment of Hematologic Function
• 6. Alterations in Red Blood Cell Function and Hemostasis
• 7. Alterations in White Blood Cell Function
• 8. Alteration in Immune Response: Solid Organ and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
• III. Pulmonary Gas Exchange
• 9. Determinants and Assessment of Pulmonary Gas Exchange
• 10. Alterations in Pulmonary Gas Exchange
• 11. Supporting Pulmonary Gas Exchange: Mechanical Ventilation
• IV. Cardiac Output
• 12. Determinants and Assessment of Cardiac Output
• 13. Assessment of Hemodynamic Status: Hemodynamic Monitoring
• 14. Assessment of Cardiac Rhythm: Basic Electrocardiographic Rhythm Interpretation
• 15. Alterations in Cardiac Output
• 16. Alterations in Myocardial Tissue Perfusion
• V. Tissue Perfusion
• 17. Determinants and Assessment of Oxygen Delivery and Oxygen Consumption
• 18. Alterations in Oxygen Delivery and Oxygen Consumption: Shock States
• 19. Alterations in Tissue Perfusion: Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
• VI. Neurologic
• 20. Determinants and Assessment of Cerebral Tissue Perfusion
• 21. Alteration in Cerebral Tissue Perfusion: Acute Brain Attack
• 22. Alteration in Sensory Perceptual Function: Acute Head Injury
• 23. Alteration in Sensory Perceptual Function: Acute Spinal Cord Injury
• 24. Sensory Motor Complications of Acute Illness
• VII. Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
• 25. Determinants and Assessment of Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
• 26. Alterations in Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
• 27. Alteration in Renal Function: Renal Failure
• VIII. Metabolic: Regulation of Internal Environment
• 28. Determinants and Assessment of Gastrointestinal, Hepatic, and Pancreatic Function
• 29. Alterations in Gastrointestinal Function
• 30. Alterations in Hepatic Function
• 31. Alterations in Pancreatic Function
• IX. Metabolic: Nutrition
• 32. Determinants and Assessment of Nutrition and Metabolic Function
• 33. Alterations in Metabolism
• 34. Alterations in Glucose Metabolism
• X. Tissue Integrity
• 35. Determinants and Assessment of Skin Integrity
• 36. Alterations in Skin Integrity: Complex Wound Management
• 37. Alterations in Skin Integrity: Acute Burn Injury
• 38. Alterations in Multisystem Function: Multiple Trauma
• GLOSSARY
• ABBREVIATIONS
• INDEX
• APPENDIX

Focused coverage of topics specifically related to high-acuity nursing:

• Tightly focused on the major problems and therapies frequently encountered in high-acuity patients—helping learners gain command of crucial content without ever feeling overwhelmed by its volume and complexity
• Illuminates topics that apply across all high-acuity problems—introducing core concepts of high-acuity nursing care, as well as important considerations in caring for high-acuity older adults
• Covers all facets of high-acuity care in all settings—including assessments, diagnostic testing, collaborative management, and more
• UPDATED! All chapters updated to reflect new findings and standards of care—with many chapters also reorganised to promote more efficient learning
• Expert coverage of complications of high-acuity illness—including multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and sensory motor complications
• Thoroughly covers therapeutic support of high-acuity patients —preparing students for supportive interventions including pain management, nutrition support, mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic monitoring, basic cardiac rhythm monitoring, and complex wound management
• Contains eight sections of coverage of the most common complex health problems, assessments, and treatments—preparing students to care for high-acuity patients with problems related to hematology, pulmonary gas exchange, cardiac output, tissue perfusion, neurology, fluid and electrolyte balance, metabolic regulation, nutrition, and tissue integrity
• NEW! Coverage of oncological emergencies, hypertensive crises, and acute aortic problems and crises—preparing students to handle a wider spectrum of medical events
• NEW! Adult dosages presented in Related Pharmacotherapy boxes —helping nurses part