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A Nurse's Survival Guide to Critical Care - Updated Edition Summary

A Nurse's Survival Guide to Critical Care - Updated Edition by Sharon L. Edwards, MSC (Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Allied Health, Buckinghamshire New University, Uxbridge, UK)

Are you a starting work in critical care? Are you an experienced nurse but need to check guidelines and best practices? This is the indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems faced by nurses working in this specialty. This book will help you to Organise your job and yourself Assess patients and communicate with them Get clinical information on a wide range of conditions What to do in emergency This UPDATED edition: Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career. Part of the A Nurse's Survival Guide series Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career.

Table of Contents

Section 1 - General principles of critical care 1.1: Introduction to critical care nursing 1.2: Health and Safety 1.3: Emergencies and life-threatening conditions 1.4: Life threatening complications/ outcomes Section 2 - Patient assessment and investigations 2.1: Identification of patient needs/problems 2.2: Assessment 2.3: Haemodynamic monitoring 2.4: Diagnostic procedures Section 3 - Critical care interventions 3.1: Medium-technology life-support interventions 3.2: High-technology life-support interventions 3.3: Caring for a critical care patient 3.4: Intubation and ventilation 3.5: Transfer of critical care patients Section 4 - Common conditions/reasons for admission 4.1: Physiological processes common to all medical and surgical conditions 4.2: Neurological 4.3: Endocrine disorders 4.4: Respiratory 4.5: Cardiovascular 4.6: Renal 4.7: Gastrointestinal (GIT) 4.8: Immunological 4.9: Burns 4.10: Poisoning/overdose Section 5 - Psychological and ethical care 5.1: Mental effects of critical care 5.2: Death and dying in critical care 5.3: Professional practice issues Section 6 - Pharmacology 6.1: Medication management 6.2: Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics 6.3: Classification of drugs used in critical care 6.4: Drug calculations 6.5: Nurse prescribing References Further Reading Appendix 1 Units of measurement Appendix 2 Normal values Appendix 3 Drug measurement and calculations Glossary Index

Additional information

NPB9780702076541
9780702076541
0702076546
A Nurse's Survival Guide to Critical Care - Updated Edition by Sharon L. Edwards, MSC (Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Allied Health, Buckinghamshire New University, Uxbridge, UK)
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Paperback
Elsevier Health Sciences
2019-05-21
612
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