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Critical Care
Essentials of Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach
Patricia G. Morton, RN, PhD, ACNP-BC, FAAN
978-1-60913-693-2 • March 2012 • Softbound • 8.375” x 10.875” • 536 pp. • 246 Illus. • 136Tables.
Essentials of Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach
focuses
on the most common disorders and technologies encountered by a
critical care nurse today. It includes enough depth to enhance the
reader’s full understanding of important topics and fully prepares the
student for practice. The clear, concise writing style assists students in
understanding the pathophysiological basis for illness and the strategies
the critical care nurse uses in assessing and managing patients. This text
contains information about important psychosocial concepts, legal and
ethical issues, history and physical examinations, key laboratory and
diagnostic tests, as well as key nursing interventions used in critical
care.
Features
• Drug Therapy tables summarize information related to the
administration and monitoring of drug therapy such as adverse
effects, contraindications to use, measures that should be taken
before administering the drug, as well as how to monitor a patient
receiving the medication.
• Diagnostic Tests tables present significant diagnostic test
information including the purpose and method of testing, normal
values, abnormal values, and nursing implications.
• The Older Patient notes, appearing within the flow of the text,
highlight information related to assessing and caring for older
patients in the critical care setting.
• Red Flag notes, also appearing throughout the text, highlight
information that will help a critical care nurse recognize a serious
problem or life-threatening change in a patient’s condition.
• Collaborative Care Guides contain outcomes and interventions and
describe how the health care team works together to manage a
patient’s illness and minimize complications.
• Evidence-Based Practice Highlights help the reader to understand
the importance of research-based practice and its implications for
nursing.
• Health History boxes summarize aspects of the history that are
important to explore to gain insight into the patient’s current
critical health problem.
• Case Study appears at the end of each chapter with a series of
related critical thinking questions to guide the student’s knowledge
to practical application.
Table of Contents
Part 1:
The Concept of Holism Applied
to Critical Care Nursing Practice
Ch. 1: Critical Care Nursing Practice
Ch. 2: The Patient’s and Family’s Experience
With Critical Illness
Ch. 3: Patient and Family Education in
Critical Care
Ch. 4: Ethical and Legal Issues in Critical
Care Nursing
Part 2:
Essential Interventions in
Critical Care
Ch. 5: Relieving Pain and Providing Comfort
Ch. 6: End-of-Life and Palliative Care
Ch. 7: Providing Nutritional Support, Fluids,
and Electrolytes
Ch. 8: Dysrhythmia Interpretation and
Management
Ch. 9: Hemodynamic Monitoring
Ch. 10: Airway Management and Ventilatory
Support
Ch. 11: Code Management
Part 3:
Cardiovascular System
Ch. 12: Patient Assessment: Cardiovascular
System
Ch. 13: Patient Management: Cardiovascular
System
Ch. 14: Common Cardiovascular Disorders
Part 4:
Respiratory System
Part 5:
Renal System
Part 6:
Nervous System
Part 7:
Gastrointestinal System
Part 8:
Endocrine System
Part 9:
Hematological and Immune
Systems
Part 10:
Integumentary System
Part 11:
Multisystem Dysfunction
…Abridged to fit