Fast Facts for the Critical Care Nurse - Dina Hewett

Fast Facts for the Critical Care Nurse

Critical Care Nursing in a Nutshell

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Buch | Softcover
174 Seiten
2019 | 2nd Revised edition
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-7716-2 (ISBN)
66,10 inkl. MwSt
Focuses on current, ICU-specific information needed daily by busy ICU nurses. This updated, quick-access guide for critical care nurses covers the most common admitting diagnoses and reviews their causes, signs and symptoms, and interventions.
Focuses on current, ICU-specific information needed daily by busy ICU nurses.This newly updated, quick-access guide for critical care nurses covers the most common admitting diagnoses and reviews their causes, signs and symptoms, and interventions. Critical care nursing requires astute assessment, adept communication, and the ability to multitask, as well as a high degree of adaptability. In the ICU, patient status and plan of care change constantly, presenting multifaceted problems for nurses and healthcare providers. This authoritative resource, replete with bulleted, bite-size content, provides information to the busy ICU nurse in a heartbeat.

Fast Facts for the Critical Care Nurse, Second Edition has been updated with the most current evidence-based guidelines and standards. Now organized by body system, this reference presents the latest treatment modalities and provides quick access to lab values and hemodynamic parameters. Part I introduces the foundations of critical care. Part II progresses by body system to cover common procedures and interventions. Part III ends with Patient and Family Centered Care, discussing palliative directives and organ donation.

New to the Second Edition:



Seven completely new chapters
Chapter reorganization by body system
Updated to include newest treatment modalities
Speedy access to lab values and hemodynamic parameters
Normal lab values at chapter beginning for reader orientation

Key Features:



Provides quick access to essential information needed on a daily basis
Includes Fast Facts boxes to help guide the reader
Authored by a respected nurse leader, educator, and AACN/Wharton Executive Leadership Fellow

Dina Hewett, PhD, RN, CCRN, NEA-BC, received her BSN from Brenau University, MSN from Georgia Southern University, and PhD in higher education from the University of Georgia.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN CRITICAL CARE NURSING

1. The Critical Care Environment

2. The Electronic Medical Record and Documentation

3. Specialty Certification for Critical Care Nurses

4. Nurse Self-Care and Wellness in the ICU

Part II CRITICAL CARE BY BODY SYSTEM

5. Neurological Critical Care

6. Respiratory Critical Care

7. Cardiovascular Critical Care

8. Shock and Multiple-Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

9. Gastrointestinal Critical Care

10. Renal Critical Care

11. Endocrine Critical Care

12. Trauma Critical Care

13. Transplant Critical Care

14. Burn and Integument Critical Care

Part III PATIENT- AND FAMILY-CENTERED CARE

15. Withdrawal of Treatment and Terminal Extubation

16. Palliative Care in the ICU

17. Organ Donation

Appendix A: Common Lab Values

Appendix B: Hemodynamic Parameters

Appendix C: Common Critical Care IV Medications

Appendix D: Basic EKG Rhythm Examples

Appendix E: Respiratory and Ventilator Terminology

Appendix F: Acronyms

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 200 g
Themenwelt Pflege Fachpflege Anästhesie / Intensivmedizin
ISBN-10 0-8261-7716-6 / 0826177166
ISBN-13 978-0-8261-7716-2 / 9780826177162
Zustand Neuware
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