Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach

Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach

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<div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Fully revised and streamlined to include the most recent information, <i>Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach</i>, <i>10e</i> 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.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">These specially designed features assist students in providing competent and compassionate care to critically ill patients and their families:</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: normal">·         <b>NEW!! Evidence-Based Practice Highlights </b>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.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: normal">·         <b>NEW!! Icons </b>to identify <i>drug therapy tables </i>as well as <i>laboratory and diagnostic tables</i> focus attention on significant information.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: normal">·         <b>NEW!! Spotlight on Genetics box, </b>appearing in selected chapters, is key to understanding how genetic factors influence disorders.<BR><b>NEW!!</b> <b>Patient Safety boxes </b>guide safe and effective practice by alerting the critical care nurse of risk factors, signs and symptoms, side effects, and complications.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: normal">·          <b>Considerations for the Older Patient boxes </b>highlight the special needs of the fastest growing part of our population – older patients.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: normal">·         <b>Health History boxes </b>summarize key areas that should be covered and relevant information that may be revealed during the health history.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: normal">·         <b>Collaborative Care Guides, </b>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.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: normal">·         <b>Teaching Guides </b>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.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: normal">·         <b>Nursing Diagnoses boxes </b>use current NANDA terminology to summarize common nursing diagnoses for particular conditions.<BR><b>Nursing Interventions tables and boxes </b>highlight key information for the critical care nurse</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: normal"> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"> </div></div>