Critical Care Nursing Access Code: Diagnosis and Management

Urden, Linda D.; Stacy, Kathleen M.; Lough, Mary E.

ISBN 10: 0323100368 ISBN 13: 9780323100366

Casa editrice: Mosby Inc, 2013

Riassunto

• Consistent organization within each body-system unit allows you to use this book as a one-stop resource for your critical care nursing education, as well as a reference for the relevant assessment techniques, lab values, and patient management principles needed by practicing nurses.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes reinforce practice guidelines for both collaborative and nursing care.
• Case studies in each chapter help you internalize and apply chapter content to clinical situations.
• Pharmacologic Management tables offer quick summaries of the drugs most often used in critical care.
• Patient Safety Alerts provide key information for special safety issues to keep safety in the forefront of your mind.
• Nursing Management Plans of Care appendix provides detailed, clinically-relevant care plans tied to 35 different NANDA nursing diagnoses.
• Highlighted QSEN content makes it easy to identify QSEN competencies as they relate to critical care nursing.
• Internet Resources box provides a list of key websites from leading organizations in critical care.

• Combined chapter on shock, sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome makes understanding similar physiologic processes easier.
• Chapter summaries provide quick study guides by organizing key information in the chapter.
• New! 6-second, standard ECG strips help you learn to identify wave forms and accurately reflect what you'll use in practice.
• New equipment information and photos accurately depicts what you'll encounter in a modern critical care unit.

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• Editore: Mosby Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0323100368
• ISBN 13: 9780323100366
• Rilegatura: Printed Access Code