Best Practices in Global Critical Care Nursing

Sandra Goldsworthy, RN, MSc, PhD(c), CNCC(C), CMSN(C) is a recognized critical care expert, having worked in this field for more than 20 years. As nursing professor in the Durham College/UOIT BScN program and the coordinator of the Critical Care E learning program at Durham College, (the largest critical care nursing program in Canada with an intake of 400 students per year, many of them international), she is also an accomplished practitioner, researcher and author. Ruth M. Kleinpell, PhD, RN-CS, FAAN, FAANP, FCCM is the Director of the Center for Clinical Research and Scholarship at Rush University Medical Center and a Professor at Rush University College of Nursing, Chicago, IL, USA. She is also a Nurse Practitioner at Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center, Chicago, IL. She serves as chair of the American Academy of Nursing's Expert Panel on Acute and Critical Care, which has received funding by the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing for the REASN (Resourcefully Enhancing Aging in Specialty Nursing) web-based modular project, now in creation. Gordon Speed, BSc, RGN is Associate Charge Nurse Manager in the ICU at Dunedin Hospital, in Dunedin, New Zealand. He has worked in the ICU environment for more than 15 years, in a variety of roles, as well as serving on organization committees within hospital systems designed to improve care. He has been a member of the New Zealand Nurses Organization Critical Care Nurses Section for 16 years, and served as the Chair of the National Committee for three years. Presently, he is the New Zealand representative on the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses.

Unit I: Issues in Critical Care
Chapter 1: Overview of Critical Care Nursing: The Basics
Chapter 2: Global Critical Care Issues
Chapter 3: Safety and Quality in the ICU
Chapter 4: The Role of ICU Outreach and Medical Emergency Team Response
Chapter 5: Patient and Family Centered Care
Unit II: Clinical Management of the Critical Care Patient
Chapter 6: Acute Stroke Care Management
Chapter 7: Trauma Management Principles
Chapter 8: Updates in the Management of Liver Failure
Chapter 9: Shock and Sepsis
Chapter 10: Arrhythmia Interpretation and Emergency Cardiac Care
Chapter 11: Bundle Care in the ICU
Chapter 12: ECMO and Other Invasive Procedures