Stephen l whitmore (4 risultati)

Condizione: Very good. xiii, 498, text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w. Special Pubications Series of the British Ecological Society No.2. [9780632011421].

First edition. Illustrations. 8vo (10 x 7 inches), 491-pages. Original green cloth. Signature on front free endpaper else fine in very good dust jacket. Weight 1.180 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The patient in front of you doesn't need you to know more. They need you to think clearly, right now, with what you already have.Every experienced ICU nurse, emergency physician, and paramedic carries the same memory: the moment a patient started to crash, and the room went quiet while everyone ran their own private calculation of what mattered most. What separates the clinicians who handle that moment well from the ones who freeze isn't usually knowledge - it's how they think under pressure, a skill that medical and nursing education rarely teaches directly. This book fills that gap.Thinking Under Pressure is not a clinical reference. You won't find dosing tables, ventilator settings, or step-by-step protocols here - those belong in your institution's current guidelines, updated far more often than any book could track. Instead, this book teaches the layer of reasoning that sits above the protocols: the judgment that decides which one applies, notices when a patient doesn't fit the expected pattern, and knows when a situation has outgrown your resources. Inside, you'll learn: A fast, repeatable framework for organizing the first sixty seconds of a deteriorating patientHow to build a working differential under real time pressure - without missing the rare, dangerous possibilityWhy pattern recognition saves lives most of the time, and the three specific conditions under which it quietly failsThe exact language that gets a concern heard up the chain of command, instead of politely ignoredSix named cognitive traps - anchoring, availability bias, groupthink, and more and the structural habits that actually defend against them (spoiler: awareness alone doesn't work)How judgment is built deliberately over a career, through reflection, mentorship, and an honest relationship with your own misses20 original, worked case studies - spanning the ED, ICU, general ward, prehospital care, pediatrics, and telemedicine - let you rehearse these frameworks against realistic, evolving scenarios before a real patient is the one who needs it.Written for: ICU and ED nurses, residents and medical students, paramedics and EMS providers, PAs and NPs, and anyone transitioning into higher-acuity clinical practice - from new graduates building their first pattern library to experienced clinicians who want to name what they already do instinctively. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The patient in front of you doesn't need you to know more. They need you to think clearly, right now, with what you already have.Every experienced ICU nurse, emergency physician, and paramedic carries the same memory: the moment a patient started to crash, and the room went quiet while everyone ran their own private calculation of what mattered most. What separates the clinicians who handle that moment well from the ones who freeze isn't usually knowledge - it's how they think under pressure, a skill that medical and nursing education rarely teaches directly. This book fills that gap.Thinking Under Pressure is not a clinical reference. You won't find dosing tables, ventilator settings, or step-by-step protocols here - those belong in your institution's current guidelines, updated far more often than any book could track. Instead, this book teaches the layer of reasoning that sits above the protocols: the judgment that decides which one applies, notices when a patient doesn't fit the expected pattern, and knows when a situation has outgrown your resources. Inside, you'll learn: A fast, repeatable framework for organizing the first sixty seconds of a deteriorating patientHow to build a working differential under real time pressure - without missing the rare, dangerous possibilityWhy pattern recognition saves lives most of the time, and the three specific conditions under which it quietly failsThe exact language that gets a concern heard up the chain of command, instead of politely ignoredSix named cognitive traps - anchoring, availability bias, groupthink, and more and the structural habits that actually defend against them (spoiler: awareness alone doesn't work)How judgment is built deliberately over a career, through reflection, mentorship, and an honest relationship with your own misses20 original, worked case studies - spanning the ED, ICU, general ward, prehospital care, pediatrics, and telemedicine - let you rehearse these frameworks against realistic, evolving scenarios before a real patient is the one who needs it.Written for: ICU and ED nurses, residents and medical students, paramedics and EMS providers, PAs and NPs, and anyone transitioning into higher-acuity clinical practice - from new graduates building their first pattern library to experienced clinicians who want to name what they already do instinctively. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…