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

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

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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 Nurses Survival Guide series

Product Details
Elsevier
63328
9780702076541
9780702076541

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Publication date
2019
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
612
Dimensions (mm)
152 x 229
Weight (g)
990

  • 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

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