Skip to main content
Elsevier
View Cart

Priorities in Critical Care Nursing

  • 9th Edition - October 27, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Linda D. Urden, Kathleen M. Stacy, Mary E. Lough
  • Language: English

**American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards, 2nd Place in Critical Care- Emergency Nursing, 2023****Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Critical Care**F… Read more

Purchase options

Description

**American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards, 2nd Place in Critical Care- Emergency Nursing, 2023**
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Critical Care**

Focus on the most important concepts in progressive and critical care nursing with Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 9th Edition. Ideal for students, practicing nurses undergoing in-service training for progressive and critical care, and progressive or critical care nurses reviewing for PCCN® or CCRN® certification, this trusted, 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 progressive and critical care nursing topics includes medications, patient safety, patient education, problem identification, and interprofessional collaborative management. You will learn how to integrate the technology of progressive and critical care with the physiological needs and psychosocial concerns of patients and families to provide the highest-quality care.

Key features

  • Need-to-know content reflects the realities of today’s progressive and critical care environments
  • UNIQUE! Balanced coverage of technology and psychosocial concerns includes an emphasis on patient care priorities to help you learn to 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 quality and safety focus throughout includes Evidence-Based Practice boxes that highlight evidence specific to the discussion; Patient-Centered Care boxes that provide recommendations to address patient uniqueness; Quality Improvement boxes describing quality initiatives and implications for practice; Teamwork and Collaboration boxes that provide guidelines for effective handoffs, assessments, and communication between nurses and other hospital staff; Safety boxes that highlight important guidelines and tips to ensure patient safety in critical care settings; and Informatics boxes that provide additional online resources
  • Patient Care 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
  • Priority Patient and Family Education Plan boxes list priority topics to be taught to the patient and family prior to discharge

Table of contents

UNIT ONE: FOUNDATIONS IN CRITICAL CARE NURSING

1. Caring for the Critically Ill Patient

2. Ethical and Legal Issues

3. Facilitating Care Transitions

UNIT TWO: COMMON PROBLEMS IN CRITICAL CARE

4. Psychosocial and Spiritual Considerations

5. Nutritional Alterations and Management

6. The Older Adult

7. Pain and Pain Management

8. Sedation and Delirium Management

9. Palliative and End-of-Life Care

UNIT THREE: CARDIOVASCULAR ALTERATIONS

10. Cardiovascular Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

11. Cardiovascular Disorders

12. Cardiovascular Therapeutic Management

UNIT FOUR: PULMONARY ALTERATIONS

13. Pulmonary Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

14. Pulmonary Disorders

15. Pulmonary Therapeutic Management

UNIT FIVE: NEUROLOGICAL ALTERATIONS

16. Neurological Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

17. Neurologic Disorders and Therapeutic Management

UNIT SIX: KIDNEY ALTERATIONS

18. Kidney Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

19. Kidney Disorders and Therapeutic Management

UNIT SEVEN: GASTROINTESTINAL ALTERATIONS

20. Gastrointestinal Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

21. Gastrointestinal Disorders and Therapeutic Management

UNIT EIGHT: ENDOCRINE ALTERATIONS

22. Endocrine Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

23. Endocrine Disorders and Therapeutic Management

UNIT NINE: MULTISYSTEM ALTERATIONS

24. Trauma

25. Burns

26. Shock, Sepsis, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

27. Hematological and Oncological Emergencies

Appendix
A: Patient Care Management Plans
B: Physiologic Formulas for Critical Care
C: Laboratory Valuesa

Product details

  • Edition: 9
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 27, 2022
  • 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