Nursing Care of the Acutely Ill and Deteriorating Patient, 1st Edition

      Patient assessment (how do the scoring systems work and what do they relate to exactly?)

      Clinical decision making (essential for students who cannot prioritize)

      The breathless patient / respiratory support

      The patient with chest pain / cardiac arrest

      The patient in pain

      The patient in shock

      The patient with sepsis and distributive shock

      The patient with delirium

      The patient with acute kidney injury

  The patient with physiological trauma

  The patient with altered consciousness

  The patient with an overdose

  The patient with an endocrine disorder

  Safe transfer of patients

  Sudden death and end-of-life care

  Professionalism, accountability, law and teamwork

  Vulnerability and safeguarding

  Human Factors and error in the acute environment

  Conclusion

Answers to end-of-chapter assessment

Glossary

Fiona Smith, Senior Lecturer Acute Nursing, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK and Gill McCrossan, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK