Introduction to Critical Care Nursing

Introduction to Critical Care Nursing

<p>Find clear, concise coverage of the essential concepts, procedures, and technology of critical care nursing! <b>Introduction to Critical Care Nursing, 7th Edition</b> helps nurses provide safe, effective, patient-centered care in a variety of critical care settings. Evidence-based coverage includes realistic case studies and incorporates the latest advances in critical care. Disorders are conveniently organized by body system or special situation, and nursing management chapters include quick-reference nursing care plans. Designed for one-semester courses, this easy-to-understand textbook will help your students develop clinical reasoning skills and succeed in today’s highly complex critical care environments.</p><ul><b><li>An emphasis on QSEN competencies</b> enables you to gain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to provide safe, high-quality health care in a variety of high acuity, progressive, and critical care settings.</li><li><b><i>Evidence-Based Practice</i> boxes</b> illustrate how research evidence is used to address problems in patient care and includes nursing implications plus AACN’s new system for Levels of Evidence: A, B, C, D, E, and M.</li><li><b>Case studies</b> challenge you to apply concepts to the real world, testing your critical thinking skills by asking questions about patient-specific cases with lab results.</li><li><b>Nursing Care Plans </b>prepare you for clinical practice by describing patient diagnoses and/or problems, patient outcomes, and nursing assessments and interventions with rationales.</li><li><b>Nearly 400 full-color photographs and illustrations </b>visually clarify key concepts for better understanding.</li><li><b><i>Clinical Alerts</b></i> highlight potential problems and concerns, to improve patient safety and clinical care.</li><li><b><i>Laboratory Alerts</b></i> emphasize the importance of laboratory test results to critical care nursing. </li><li><b>Pharmacology tables</b> show the actions/usages, indications, dosages/routes, side effects, and nursing implications of drugs commonly used in high acuity, progressive, and critical care settings.</li></ul><ul><b><li>NEW! UPDATED content </b>is included throughout, especially in topics such as nutrition, feeding tube connectors, the new PAD guidelines for pain management, Rapid Response Teams, sepsis guidelines, and valvular disorders and TAVR.</li><li><b>NEW! Critical Reasoning Activities </b>are interspersed throughout the text, to better promote development of clinical nursing judgment.</li><li><b>NEW! <i>Universal Collaborative Care Plan for the Critically Ill Patient</b></i> addresses important aspects of collaborative/interprofessional care that apply to virtually all critically ill patients. </li><li><b>NEW! Increased coverage of infection control </b>addresses the QSEN safety competency and helps provide patient protection against the growing threat of drug-resistant infections.</li><li><b>NEW! Coverage of cardiac assistive devices</b> includes ECMO and other small, portable, bedside cardiac assistive devices.</li><li><b>NEW! Refocused hemodynamic monitoring content </b>emphasizes the noninvasive methods of hemodynamic monitoring that are becoming more prominent.</li><li><b>NEW! Increased coverage of palliative care </b>supports the book's strong focus on end-of-life care.</li><li><b>Revised<i> Organ Donation</i> chapter </b>is refocused to help nurses provide holistic care to families facing difficult end-of-life choices regarding organ donation, rather than on the details of transplantation procedures. </li><li><b>NEW <i>Patient Problems</i> focus</b> shifts the book’s emphasis from nursing diagnoses to the interprofessional care of patient problems.</li> </ul>