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Critical Care
CriticalCareNursing:AHolisticApproach,TenthEdition,
International Edition
PatriciaG.Morton, RN, PhD, ACNP, FAAN
978-1-4511-4627-1 •October2012 • Softbound •8.375”x10.875” • 1352pp.
978-1-60913-749-6 •NorthAmericanEdition: Available inUS,Canada, Australia,NewZealand, PuertoRicoandUSVirgin Islandsonly
Fully revised and streamlined to include themost recent information,
Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach, Tenth Edition
provides
studentswith the theory and application knowledge necessary to fully
prepare them for the highly specialized and complicated technical
worldof critical carenursing.
Features
•
NEW! Evidence-BasedPracticeHighlights
focus attentionon
the importanceof research-basedpracticeand include significant
excerpts fromAACNpracticealerts aswell as guidelines fromother
relevantorganizations.
•
NEW! Icons
to identifydrug therapy tables, tables andboxes
containingnursing interventions, aswell as laboratoryand
diagnostic tables focus attentionon significant information.
•
NEW!SpotlightonGeneticsBox
appears in selected chapters and
is key tounderstandinghowgenetic factors influencedisorders.
•
NEW! PatientSafetyBoxes
guide safeandeffectivepracticeby
alerting the critical carenurseof risk factors, signs and symptoms,
sideeffects, and complications.
•
Considerations for theOlderPatientBoxes
highlight the special
needsof the fastest growingpartof our population—older
patients.
•
HealthHistoryBoxes
summarize keyareas that shouldbe covered
and relevant information thatmaybe revealedduring thehealth
history.
•
CollaborativeCareGuides
is presented ina tabular format
containingoutcomes and interventions. Itdescribes how the
health care teamworks together tomanageapatient’s illness and
minimize complications.
•
TeachingGuides
help the critical carenurse topreparepatients and
familymembers for procedures, assist patients and familymembers
withunderstanding the illness theyaredealingwith, explain
post-procedureor postoperativeactivitiesor prepareapatient for
discharge from thehospital.
•
NursingDiagnosesandCollaborativeProblemsBoxes
use
currentNANDA terminology to summarize commonnursing
diagnoses and collaborativeproblems for particular conditions.
Table of Contents
Part1:
TheConceptofHolismApplied
toCriticalCareNursingPractice
Part2:
Professional Practice Issues in
CriticalCare
Part3:
Special Populations inCritical
Care
Part4:
Special Situations inCritical
Care
Part5:
CardiovascularSystem
Part6:
RespiratorySystem
Part7:
Renal System
Part8:
NervousSystem
Part9:
Gastrointestinal System
Part10:
EndocrineSystem
Part11:
Hematological and Immune
Systems
Part12:
IntegumentarySystem
Part13:
MultisystemDysfunction
Appendix:
ACLSGuidelines