Critical Care Nursing: Learning from Practice

✍ Scribed by Suzanne Bench

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Critical Care Nursing: Learning from Practice takes a unique approach to critical care. Based around case scenarios that have the patient as the central focus, each chapter is constructed around an example of a critically ill patient with specific care needs. The chapters then go on to critically explore the knowledge and skills required to deliver expert care. This book looks at a range of critical care scenarios, including:

The patient with acute lung injury

The patient with fever

The patient with an acute kidney injury

The patient with long term needs

The patient with increased intra-abdominal pressure

The Patient following cardiac surgery

Each chapter develops knowledge of the related physiology/pathophysiology, appropriate nursing interventions that are research/evidence based, technical skills, data interpretation and critical appraisal skills, enabling the reader to apply fundamental knowledge to more complex patient problems. Critical Care Nursing: Learning from Practice is an essential resource for practitioners faced with complex and challenging patient cases.

✦ Subjects

Medical; Nonfiction; MED058030