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Priorities in Critical Care Nursing

  • 8th Edition - January 9, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Linda D. Urden, Kathleen M. Stacy, Mary E. Lough
  • Language: English

Stay on top of the most important issues in high acuity, progressive, and critical care settings with Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 8th Edition. Perfect for both practicin… Read more

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Stay on top of the most important issues in high acuity, progressive, and critical care settings with Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 8th Edition. Perfect for both practicing nurses and critical care nurses reviewing for CCRN® certification alike, this evidence-based textbook uses the latest, most authoritative research to help you identify patient priorities in order to safely and expertly manage patient care. Succinct coverage of all core critical care nursing topics includes medications, patient safety, patient education, problem identification, and interprofessional collaborative management. You’ll learn how to integrate the technology of critical care with the physiological needs and psychosocial concerns of patients and families to provide the highest-quality care. Additionally, this new edition places a unique focus on interprofessional patient problems to help you learn to speak a consistent language of patient problems and work successfully as part of an interprofessional team.

Key features

  • Need-to-know content reflects today’s high acuity, progressive, and critical care environments!
  • UNIQUE! Balanced coverage of technology and psychosocial concerns includes an emphasis on patient care priorities to help you provide the highest-quality nursing care
  • Consistent format features a Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures chapter followed by one or more Disorders and Therapeutic Management chapters for each content area
  • Strong QSEN focus incorporates Evidence-Based Practice boxes that employ the PICOT framework; Teamwork and Collaboration boxes that provide guidelines for effective handoffs, assessments, and communication between nurses and other hospital staff; and Patient Safety Alert boxes that highlight important guidelines and tips to ensure patient safety in critical care settings
  • Nursing management plans at the end of the book provide a complete care plan for every priority patient problem — including outcome criteria, nursing interventions, and rationales
  • Additional learning aids include case studies, concept maps, Collaborative Management boxes, Patient Education boxes, Priority Medication boxes, and Cultural Competency boxes

Table of contents

UNIT ONE: FOUNDATIONS IN CRITICAL CARE NURSING

1. Caring for the Critically Ill Patient

2. Ethical and Legal Issues

3. Patient and Family Education

UNIT TWO: COMMON PROBLEMS IN CRITICAL CARE

4. Psychosocial Alterations

5. Sleep Alterations

6. Nutritional Alterations

7. Gerontological Alterations

8. Pain and Pain Management

9. Sedation and Delirium Management

10. End-of-Life Care

UNIT THREE: CARDIOVASCULAR ALTERATIONS

11. Cardiovascular Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

12. Cardiovascular Disorders

13. Cardiovascular Therapeutic Management

UNIT FOUR: PULMONARY ALTERATIONS

14. Pulmonary Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

15. Pulmonary Disorders

16. Pulmonary Therapeutic Management

UNIT FIVE: NEUROLOGICAL ALTERATIONS

17. Neurological Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

18. Neurologic Disorders and Therapeutic Management

UNIT SIX: KIDNEY ALTERATIONS

19. Kidney Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

20. Kidney Disorders and Therapeutic Management

UNIT SEVEN: GASTROINTESTINAL ALTERATIONS

21. Gastrointestinal Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

22. Gastrointestinal Disorders and Therapeutic Management

UNIT EIGHT: ENDOCRINE ALTERATIONS

23. Endocrine Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

24. Endocrine Disorders and Therapeutic Management

UNIT NINE: MULTISYSTEM ALTERATIONS

25. Trauma

26. Shock, Sepsis, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

27. Hematological Disorders and Oncological Emergencies

Appendix
A. Nursing Management Plans of Care
B. Physiologic Formulas for Critical Care

Product details

  • Edition: 8
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 28, 2019
  • Language: English

About the authors

LU

Linda D. Urden

Professor Emeritus Linda D. Urden works at the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science and Beyster Institute for Nursing Research, University of San Diego in San Diego, California.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, University of San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

KS

Kathleen M. Stacy

Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, Clinical Professor Kathleen M. Stacy works at the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, University of San Diego, San Diego, California.
Affiliations and expertise
Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, Clinical Professor, Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, University of San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

ML

Mary E. Lough

Nurse Scientist, Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist Mary E. Lough works at Stanford Health Care; Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Affiliations and expertise
Implementation Scientist, Clinical Nurse, Specialist, Center for Professional Practice, Stanford Health Care, Stanford, California; Clinical Associate Professor, Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Clinical Professor, Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA