Full Description
"Priorities in Critical Care Nursing" succinctly addresses all the topics crucial to students or beginning critical care nurses. Designed for 9-13 week critical care classes, this new edition prepares readers to integrate the technology of critical care with psychosocial concerns in order to provide high-quality nursing care. Discussions of medical and nursing management are evidence-based wherever possible, incorporating the most recent references. Covering everything from the foundations of critical care nursing practice to nursing management, the text helps readers easily identify essential information with the help of special callout boxes. Each nursing management plan incorporates nursing diagnosis, etiologic or related factors, clinical manifestations, and interventions with rationales, all liberally cross-referenced throughout the book.
Contents
Unit Onethe Critically Ill 2. Ethical and Legal Issues 3. Patient and Family Education Unit Two: Common Problems In Critical Care 4. Psychological Alterations 5. Sleep Alterations 6. Nutritional Alterations 7. Gerontologic Alterations 8. Pain Management 9. Sedation Assessment and Management Unit Three: Cardiovascular Alterations 10. Cardiovascular Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures 11. Cardiovascular Disorders 12. Cardiovascular Therapeutic Management Unit Four: Pulmonary Alterations 13. Pulmonary Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures 14. Pulmonary Disorders 15. Pulmonary Therapeutic Management Unit Five: Neurologic Alterations 16. Neurologic Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures 17. Neurologic Disorders 18. Neurologic Therapeutic Management Unit Six: Renal Alterations 19. Renal Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures 20. Renal Disorders and Therapeutic Management Unit Seven: Gastrointenstinal Alterations 21. Gastrointestinal Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures 22. Gastrointestinal Disorders and Therapeutic Management Unit Eight: Endocrine Alterations 23. Endocrine Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures 24. Endocrine Disorders and Therapeutic Management Unit Nine: Multisystem Alterations 25. Trauma 26. Shock and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome Unit Ten: Nursing Management Plans Of Care Appendix Physiologic Formulas for Critical Care
