cover image - Priorities in Critical Care Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 8th Edition
ISBN: 9780323544962
Copyright: 2020
Publication Date: 01-24-2019
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $96.99

Priorities in Critical Care Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 8th Edition

by Linda D. Urden, DNSc, RN, CNS, FAAN, Kathleen M. Stacy, PhD, RN, APRN- CNS, CCNS, FCNS and Mary E. Lough, PhD, RN, CNS, FCCM, FAHA, FCNS, FAAN

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Priorities in Critical Care Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 8th Edition
ISBN: 9780323544962
Copyright: 2020
Publication Date: 01-24-2019
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $96.99
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Perfect for shorter critical care courses, in-service training, and CCRN® certification review, Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 8th Edition uses the latest, most authoritative research to help your students identify patient priorities in order to safely and expertly manage patient care in high acuity, progressive, and critical care settings. The book’s succinct coverage of all core critical care nursing topics spans the areas of medications, patient safety, patient education, problem identification, and interprofessional collaborative management. Students will 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. In addition to thoroughly revised case studies, integration of interprofessional collaborative practice, streamlined features, and new multimedia resources, this new edition also includes a unique focus on interprofessional patient problems to help students learn to speak a consistent language of patient problems and work successfully as part of an interprofessional critical care team.

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    • Need-to-know content reflects today’s high acuity, progressive, and critical care environments!
    • NEW! Updated evidence-based content reflects the latest meta-analyses, systematic reviews, evidence-based guidelines, and national and international protocols.
    • NEW! Enhanced multimedia resources include 15 links to sample skills from Elsevier’s Clinical Skills, 25 3D animations, and 17 video clips.
    • UNIQUE! Balanced coverage of technology and psychosocial concerns includes an emphasis on patient care priorities to help students provide the highest-quality patient-centered nursing care.
    • Consistent format features a Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures chapter followed by one or more Disorders and Therapeutic Management chapters on each core topic.
    • NEW and UNIQUE! Focus on interprofessional patient problems helps students learn to speak a consistent interprofessional language of patient problems and work successfully as a team.
    • NEW and UNIQUE! IPEC® Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice — Values/Ethics, Teams and Teamwork, Roles/Responsibilities, and Interprofessional Communication —are now integrated throughout textbook content, case studies, and TEACH for Nurses Lesson Plans.
    • NEW! Thoroughly updated case studies reflect the current "flavor" of high-acuity, progressive, and critical care settings and now include questions specifically related to QSEN competencies.
    • Strong QSEN focus with 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.
    • NEW! Additional content on post-ICU outcomes has been added to chapters as they relate to specific disorders.
    • NEW! Updated information on sepsis guidelines has been added to Chapter 26.
    • 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 Concept Maps, Collaborative Management boxes, Patient Education boxes, Priority Medication boxes, and Cultural Competency boxes.
    • NEW! Updated evidence-based content reflects the latest meta-analyses, systematic reviews, evidence-based guidelines, and national and international protocols.
    • NEW! Enhanced multimedia resources include 15 links to sample skills from Elsevier Clinical Skills and 25 3D animations.
    • NEW and UNIQUE! Focus on interprofessional patient problems helps you learn to speak a consistent interprofessional language of patient problems and learn to work successfully as a team.
    • NEW and UNIQUE! Integration of (IPEC®) Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice incorporates the four IPEC Competencies — Values/Ethics, Teams and Teamwork, Roles/Responsibilities, and Interprofessional Communication — into textbook content and case studies.
    • NEW! Thoroughly updated case studies reflect the current "flavor" of high-acuity, progressive, and critical care settings and now include questions specifically related to QSEN competencies.
    • NEW! Additional content on post-ICU outcomes has been added to chapters as they relate to specific disorders.
    • NEW! Updated information on sepsis guidelines has been added to Chapter 26.
    • NEW! More concise boxes with new table row shading enhance the book's focus on need-to-know information and improve usability.
  • 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
    Appendix B. Physiologic Formulas for Critical Care

    Index

  • Linda D. Urden, DNSc, RN, CNS, FAAN, Professor Emeritus, Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, University of San Diego, San Diego, California, Kathleen M. Stacy, PhD, RN, APRN- CNS, CCNS, FCNS, Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, Clinical Professor, Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, University of San Diego, San Diego, California and Mary E. Lough, PhD, RN, CNS, FCCM, FAHA, FCNS, FAAN, 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
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