NEW! Content on the implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic for critical care nursing includes new content on proning as a standard critical care procedure and expanded coverage of nursing self-care — including new Nursing Self-Care boxes, consistent with the 2021 Future of Nursing report.
NEW! Expanded tools for the Next-Generation NCLEX® (NGN) Exam includes more coverage of the six cognitive skills of NCSBN’s Clinical Judgment Measurement Model, with new use of the cognitive skills along with nursing process terminology, expanded use of clinical judgment terminology, and expanded, newly interactive NGN-style case studies on the Evolve website.
NEW! Updated content reflects the latest evidence-based developments as well as national and international guidelines.
NEW! Integration of the 2021 AACN Essentials features special emphasis on Clinical Judgment and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, including the use of non-gendered language and illustrations with enhanced diversity.
NEW! Key Points bulleted lists reinforce the most important content in each chapter
PART I: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS 1. Overview of Critical Care Nursing 2. Patient and Family Response to the Critical Care Experience 3. Ethical and Legal Issues in Critical Care Nursing 4. Palliative and End-of-Life Care 5. Organ Donation PART II: TOOLS FOR THE CRITICAL CARE NURSE 6. Comfort and Sedation 7. Nutritional Therapy 8. Dysrhythmia Interpretation and Management 9. Hemodynamic Monitoring 10. Ventilatory Assistance 11. Rapid Response Teams and Code Management PART III: NURSING CARE DURING CRITICAL ILLNESS 12. Shock, Sepsis, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome 13. Cardiovascular Alterations 14. Nervous System Alterations 15. Acute Respiratory Failure 16. Acute Kidney Injury 17. Hematological and Immune Disorders 18. Gastrointestinal Alterations 19. Endocrine Alterations 20. Trauma and Surgical Management 21. Burns
Mary Beth Flynn Makic, PhD, APRN, CCNS, CCRN, FAAN, FNAP, FCNS, Professor, University of Colorado College of Nursing, Aurora, Colorado; Nurse Scientist, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado, USA and Lauren T. Morata, DNP, APRN-CNS, CCRN, CCNS, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Clinical Quality, Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center, Lakeland, Florida, USA
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