Critical Care and Emergency Nursing

This book in the popular "Springhouse Notes" series makes a subject that is a challenge in the classroom and in real life easier to master. More helpful and fun to use than ever, students will enjoy using the StudySmart computer disk which includes more than 100 NCLEX-style multiple-choice questions.

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A complete outline and course review in one book, including study questions, key points in color, learning objectives, and abundant white space for notes. Also added is a StudySmart disk with more than 100 NCLEX-style, multiple-choice questions with answer rationales, nursing process step, client needs category, and taxonomic level. Brand-new decision trees, chapter overviews, patient-teaching tips, and clinical alerts boost learning and promote critical thinking. Contents include perspectives on critical care and emergency nursing, physiologic concepts, psychosocial aspects of critical care and emergency nursing, nutritional support, infection control, emergency life support: resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic monitoring, intracranial pressure monitoring, continuous cardiac monitoring, cardiac arrhythmias, alternative management therapies, cardiovascular disorders, respiratory disorders, metabolic and renal disorders, endocrine disorders, neurologic disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, female reproductive disorders, disorders affecting multiple systems, trauma, appendices, selected references, index, and StudySmart disk.