Description
Are you a starting work in critical care? Are you an experienced nurse but need to check guidelines and best practices?This is the indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems faced by nurses working in this specialty.This book will help you to- Organise your job and yourself- Assess patients and communicate with them- Get clinical information on a wide range of conditions- What to do in emergency This UPDATED edition:- Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field- Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis- Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career. Part of the A Nurse's Survival Guide seriesCompletely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the fieldPhysiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basisBoxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career.
Table of Contents
Section 1 - General principles of critical care1.1: Introduction to critical care nursing1.2: Health and Safety1.3: Emergencies and life-threatening conditions1.4: Life threatening complications/ outcomesSection 2 - Patient assessment and investigations2.1: Identification of patient needs/problems2.2: Assessment2.3: Haemodynamic monitoring2.4: Diagnostic proceduresSection 3 - Critical care interventions3.1: Medium-technology life-support interventions3.2: High-technology life-support interventions3.3: Caring for a critical care patient3.4: Intubation and ventilation3.5: Transfer of critical care patientsSection 4 - Common conditions/reasons for admission4.1: Physiological processes common to all medical and surgical conditions 4.2: Neurological4.3: Endocrine disorders4.4: Respiratory4.5: Cardiovascular4.6: Renal4.7: Gastrointestinal (GIT)4.8: Immunological4.9: Burns4.10: Poisoning/overdoseSection 5 - Psychological and ethical care5.1: Mental effects of critical care5.2: Death and dying in critical care5.3: Professional practice issuesSection 6 - Pharmacology6.1: Medication management6.2: Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics6.3: Classification of drugs used in critical care6.4: Drug calculations6.5: Nurse prescribingReferencesFurther ReadingAppendix 1 Units of measurementAppendix 2 Normal valuesAppendix 3 Drug measurement and calculationsGlossaryIndex
