Urden’s Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 10th Edition

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

Linda D. Urden, DNSc, RN, CNS, FAAN, Professor Emeritus, Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, University of San Diego, San Diego, California, USA, 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, USA, 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, USA and Kimberly Sanchez, PhD, RN, CCRN, ACCNS- AG, Nurse Scientist, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nursing, Keck Medical Center of USC, Los Angeles, California, USA