Fast Facts for the Critical Care Nurse (eBook)

Dina Hewett (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019 | 2. Auflage
300 Seiten
Springer Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-0-8261-7721-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This newly updated, quick-access guide for critical care nurses covers the most common admitting diagnoses and reviews their causes, signs and symptoms, and interventions. Critical care nursing requires astute assessment, adept communication, and the ability to multitask, as well as a high degree of adaptability. In the ICU, patient status and plan of care change constantly, presenting multifaceted problems for nurses and healthcare providers. This authoritative resource, with bulleted, bite-sized content, provides information to the busy ICU nurse in a heartbeat.Fast Facts for the Critical Care Nurse, Second Edition, has been updated with the most current evidence-based guidelines and standards. Now organized by body system, this reference presents the latest treatment modalities and provides quick access to lab values and hemodynamic parameters. Part I introduces the foundations of critical care. Part II progresses by body system to cover common procedures and interventions. Part III covers patient- and family-centered care, discussing palliative directives and organ donation.New to the Second Edition:Seven completely new chaptersChapter reorganization by body systemUpdated to include newest treatment modalitiesSpeedy access to appendices with common lab values, hemodynamic parameters, IV medications, and EKG rhythm examplesKey Features:Provides quick access to essential information needed on a daily basisIncludes Fast Facts boxes to help guide the readerAuthored by a respected nurse leader, educator, and AACN/Wharton Executive Leadership Fellow

Inhalt

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN CRITICAL CARE NURSING

1. The Critical Care Environment

2. The Electronic Medical Record and Documentation

3. Specialty Certification for Critical Care Nurses

4. Nurse Self-Care and Wellness in the ICU

Part II CRITICAL CARE BY BODY SYSTEM

5. Neurological Critical Care

6. Respiratory Critical Care

7. Cardiovascular Critical Care

8. Shock and Multiple-Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

9. Gastrointestinal Critical Care

10. Renal Critical Care

11. Endocrine Critical Care

12. Trauma Critical Care

13. Transplant Critical Care

14. Burn and Integument Critical Care

Part III PATIENT- AND FAMILY-CENTERED CARE

15. Withdrawal of Treatment and Terminal Extubation

16. Palliative Care in the ICU

17. Organ Donation

Appendix A: Common Lab Values

Appendix B: Hemodynamic Parameters

Appendix C: Common Critical Care IV Medications

Appendix D: Basic EKG Rhythm Examples

Appendix E: Respiratory and Ventilator Terminology

Appendix F: Acronyms

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Fast Facts
• Reihe/Serie: Fast Facts
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Pflege ► Fachpflege ► Anästhesie / Intensivmedizin
• Schlagworte: certification,continuing education,critical care nurses,critical care nursing,electronic medical record,interventions,neurological care,organ donation,palliative care,patient and family centered care,plan of care,professionalism
• ISBN-10: 0-8261-7721-2 / 0826177212
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8261-7721-6 / 9780826177216