AACN Advanced Critical Care Nursing
- 1st Edition - April 24, 2008
- Authors: American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), AACN
- Editor: Karen K. Carlson
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 3 7 7 - 2 6 2 0 - 6
From AACN experts comes a resource dedicated to helping you oversee or care for critical care patients in any practice setting. This comprehensive critical care nursing textbook… Read more
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From AACN experts comes a resource dedicated to helping you oversee or care for critical care patients in any practice setting. This comprehensive critical care nursing textbook addresses serious and potentially life-threatening patient conditions with a foundation rooted in the critical thinking process: the comprehension, analysis, synthesis, and application of knowledge.
- Endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the largest specialty nursing organization in the United States, for the most authoritative coverage available.
- Thorough discussions of each body system emphasize advanced concepts, presenting physiology in an application format that examines the clinical implications of physiological science.
- Coverage of assessment focuses on interpreting abnormal findings and linking those findings to diagnosis and intervention.
- Appropriate interventions are discussed from an interdisciplinary, evidence-based perspective.
- Hundreds of new, full-color illustrations and design clarify important concepts and improve the book's usability.
- Complex, unfolding case studies are presented in all disease chapters, accompanied by review questions with a comprehensive answer key.
- Multidisciplinary Plans of Care provide at-a-glance information for common ICU conditions.
- Nutrition boxes appear in each relevant chapter, offering guidelines for patient needs with specific illnesses.
- Research-Based Practice Guidelines boxes and Promoting Evidence-Based Practice features appear throughout the text whenever applicable to present the latest research-supported nursing assessment and intervention practices.
- Drug boxes include common classifications of critical care drugs for specific disorders, including drug, actions, dosage, and special considerations.
- Applying the Technology features help you apply the latest technology to patient care.
- NIC Interventions boxes list NIC intervention labels appropriate for the conditions discussed in a chapter.
UNIT I: PRACTICE IN TODAY’S CRITICAL CARE ENVIRONMENT1. The Critical Care Environment2. Alternate Settings for Critical Care3. Comorbid ConditionsUNIT II: ELEMENTS OF CARE4. Pain and Sedation5. Symptom Management-Diarrhea-Vomiting/Nausea-Dyspnea6. Nutrition7. Thermoregulation-Hypothermia-Hyperthermia8. Families in Critical Care9. Improving Outcomes through ProphylaxisUNIT III: CARDIAC10. Advanced Arrhythmias11. Acute Coronary Syndromes12. Heart Failure13. Heart Disease in Women14. Cardiac Surgery15. Valvular Disease and Surgery16. Vascular Emergencies17. Cardiomyopathy18. Heart and Lung TransplantationUNIT IV: PULMONARY19. Acute Respiratory Failure and Acute Lung Injury20. Mechanical Ventilation and Weaning21. Thoracic SurgeryUNIT V: NERVOUS SYSTEM22. Head Injury and Dysfunction23. Cerebral Vascular Disorders24. Spinal Cord Injury25. Special Neurologic Patient PopulationsUNIT VI: GASTOINTESTINAL26. Gastrointestinal Bleeding27. Liver Dysfunction and Failure28. Pancreatitis29. The Gut in Critical Illness30. Liver, Kidney, and Pancreas TransplantationUNIT VII: RENAL31. Electrolyte Emergencies32. Complex Acid-Base Disorders and Associated Electrolyte Imbalances33. Acute Renal FailureUNIT VIII: ENDOCRINE34. Glycemic Control35. Pituitary, Thyroid, and Adrenal DisordersUNIT IX: HEMATOLOGIC36. Blood Conservation and Blood Component Replacement 37. CoagulopathiesUNIT X: IMMUNE (CRITICAL CARE IMMUNOLOGY38. Caring for the Immunocompromised Patient39. Bone Marrow TransplantationUNIT XI: MULTISYSTEM DISORDERS40. Shock and Endpoints of Resuscitation41. Optimizing Hemodynamics: Strategies for Fluid and Medication Titration in Shock42. Trauma43. Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome44. Burns45. Mass-Casualty CompetenciesUNIT XII: SPECIAL PATIENT POPULATIONS46. Caring for the Patient in the Immediate Postoperative Period47. Caring for the Critically Ill Pregnant Patient48. Caring for a Pediatric Patient in an Adult Critical Care Unit49. Caring for the Critically Ill Elderly Patient50. Caring for the Critically Ill Patient with a Psychiatric Disorder51. Caring for the Bariatric Patient52. Oncologic Emergencies53. Chemical Dependency54. End-of-Life Care
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 24, 2008
- Language: English
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Karen K. Carlson
Affiliations and expertise
Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, Carlson Consulting Group, Bellevue, WA; Clinical Faculty, Department of Biobehavioral Nursing, University of Wahington, Seattle, WA