High-Acuity Nursing (6th Edition)

High-Acuity Nursing (6th Edition)

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<P style="MARGIN: 0px">The most focused, up-to-date, easy-to-understand guide to high-acuity nursing in all care settings.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B> <I>High-Acuity Nursing, Sixth Edition</I> </B> 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.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Teaching and Learning Experience </B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B> <BR> </B>This book is designed to help learners rapidly gain mastery and confidence. It provides: </P> <UL> <LI> <B>Focused coverage of topics specifically related to high-acuity nursing</B>: Helps learners gain command of crucial content without ever feeling overwhelmed by its volume and complexity <LI> <B>Links pathophysiological principles and clinical care: </B>Helps learners translate pathophysiological principles into care decisions, and understand the rationale for those decisions <LI> <B>Learner-focused “active learning”</B> <B>with strong pedagogical support</B>: “Chunks” complex information into small, discrete sections, provides quizzes after each section to ensure mastery, and offers extensive pedagogical support for more effective study</LI> </UL>