Critical Care Nursing - Elsevier eBook on Intel Education Study (Retail Access Card), 7th Edition

• Consistent organization within each body-system unit allows you to use this book as a one-stop resource for your critical care nursing education, as well as a reference for the relevant assessment techniques, lab values, and patient management principles needed by practicing nurses.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes reinforce practice guidelines for both collaborative and nursing care.
• Case studies in each chapter help you internalize and apply chapter content to clinical situations.
• Pharmacologic Management tables offer quick summaries of the drugs most often used in critical care.
• Patient Safety Alerts provide key information for special safety issues to keep safety in the forefront of your mind.
• Nursing Management Plans of Care appendix provides detailed, clinically-relevant care plans tied to 35 different NANDA nursing diagnoses.
• Highlighted QSEN content makes it easy to identify QSEN competencies as they relate to critical care nursing.
• Internet Resources box provides a list of key websites from leading organizations in critical care.

• Combined chapter on shock, sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome makes understanding similar physiologic processes easier.
• Chapter summaries provide quick study guides by organizing key information in the chapter.
• New! 6-second, standard ECG strips help you learn to identify wave forms and accurately reflect what you’ll use in practice.
• New equipment information and photos accurately depicts what you’ll encounter in a modern critical care unit.

Unit 1: Foundations of Critical Care Nursing

1. Critical Care Nursing Practice

2. Ethical Issues

3. Legal Issues

4. Genetics and Genomics in Critical Care

5. Patient and Family Education

6. Psychosocial and Spiritual Alterations and Management

7. Sleep Alterations and Management

8. Nutrition Alterations and Management

9. Pain and Pain Management

10. Sedation and Delirium Management

11. End-of-Life Issues

Unit 2: Cardiovascular Alterations

12. Cardiovascular Anatomy and Physiology

13. Cardiovascular Clinical Assessment

14. Cardiovascular Diagnostic Procedures

15. Cardiovascular Disorders

16. Cardiovascular Therapeutic Management

Unit 3: Pulmonary Alterations

17. Pulmonary Anatomy and Physiology

18. Pulmonary Clinical Assessment

19. Pulmonary Diagnostic Procedures

20. Pulmonary Disorders

21. Pulmonary Therapeutic Management

Unit 4: Neurologic Alterations

22. Neurologic Anatomy and Physiology

23. Neurologic Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

24. Neurologic Disorders and Therapeutic Management

Unit 5: Kidney Alterations

25. Kidney Anatomy and Physiology

26. Kidney Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

27. Kidney Disorders and Therapeutic Management

Unit 6: Gastrointestinal Alterations

28. Gastrointestinal Anatomy and Physiology

29. Gastrointestinal Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

30. Gastrointestinal Disorders and Therapeutic Management

Unit 7: Endocrine Alterations

31. Endocrine Anatomy and Physiology

32. Endocrine Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures

33. Endocrine Disorders and Therapeutic Management

Unit 8: Multisystem Alterations

34. Trauma

35. Shock, Sepsis, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

36. Burns

37. Organ Donation and Transplantation

38. Hematologic and Oncologic Emergencies

Unit 9: Special Populations

39. The Obstetric Patient

40. The Pediatric Patient

41. The Older Adult Patient

42. The Perianesthesia Patient

Appendix A: Nursing Management Plans

Appendix B: Physiologic Formulas for Critical Care

Linda D. Urden, DNSc, RN, CNS, NE-BC, FAAN, Professor and Coordinator, Executive Nurse Leader Graduate Program. University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA, Kathleen M. Stacy, PhD, RN, CNS, CCRN, PCCN, CCNS, Clinical Nurse Specialist--Intermediate Care Unit, Palomar Medical Center, Escondido, CA; Adjunct Faculty Member, School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA and Mary E. Lough, PhD, RN, CNS, CCRN, CNRN, CCNS, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Medical/Surgical/Neuroscience/Trauma ICU, Stanford University Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Clinical Professor, Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA