Critical Care Nursing

Linda Bucher, RN, PhD, CEN, CNE

INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL CARE * Critical Care Across the Health Care Continuum * Legal and Ethical Issues in Critical Care Nursing * Professional Role of the Critical Care Nurse * Impact of Critical Illness on the Patient and Family * Cultural Issues in Critical Care Nursing * CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS * Cardiovascular Anatomy and Physiology * Cardiovascular Assessment * Cardiovascular Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests * Coronary Artery Disease * Acute Myocardial Infarction * Heart Failure * Infectious Cardiac Disorders * Cardiac Surgery and Heart * Transplantation * RESPIRATORY DISORDERS * Respiratory Anatomy and Physiology * Respiratory Assessment * Respiratory Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests * Acute Respiratory Failure * Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome * Common Respiratory Problems: Pulmonary Embolism, Pneumothorax, and Thoracic Pulmonary Surgery * RENAL DISORDERS * Renal Anatomy and Physiology * Renal Assessment * Renal Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests * Acute Renal Failure * Chronic Renal Failure and Renal Transplantation * Endocrine Disorders * Endocrine Anatomy and Physiology * Endocrine Assessment * Endocrine Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests * Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Nonketotic Coma *