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2028
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Urden’s Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 10th Edition
by Linda D. Urden, DNSc, RN, CNS, FAAN, Kathleen M. Stacy, PhD, RN, APRN-CNS, CCNS, FCNS, Mary E. Lough, PhD, RN, CNS, FCCM, FAHA, FCNS, FAAN and Kimberly Sanchez, PhD, RN, CCRN, ACCNS- AG
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Focus on the most important concepts in progressive and critical care nursing with Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 10th 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 essential progressive and critical care nursing topics includes medications, patient safety, patient education, problem identification, and interprofessional collaborative management. With this award-winning resource, you'll learn how to integrate the technology of progressive and critical care nursing with the physiological needs and psychosocial concerns of patients and families to provide the highest-quality care.
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- Updated content throughout reflects the latest changes in concepts, techniques, and technology of progressive and critical care nursing
- Updates reflect the curricular emphases specified in the 2021 AACN Essentials and the 2020-2030 Future of Nursing Report, with particular emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion and overcoming health disparities
- Updated and expanded resources for the Next-Generation NCLEX(R) Examination (NGN) for prelicensure students
- NOTE: Additional features to be identified in a summer 2024 planning meeting
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- Need-to-know content reflects the essentials of high-quality care in today’s progressive and critical care environments
- UNIQUE! Balanced coverage of technology and psychosocial concerns includes an emphasis on patient care priorities to help students 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 AACN Essentials 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 guidance in using key information technology
- Patient Care Management Plans provide a complete care plan for every priority patient problem, including outcome criteria, nursing interventions, and rationales
- UNIQUE! Trending Priorities in Healthcare boxes highlight societal trends and issues that affect health care as it is delivered throughout various sites and geographical settings, such as limited English proficiency, unhoused status, and external disaster preparedness
- Winner of the Silver American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award in emergency/critical care nursing in its 9th edition!
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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: Patient Care Management Plans Index -
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