Introduction to Critical Care Nursing, 8th Edition Mary Lou Sole

Introduction to Critical Care Nursing, 8th Edition Mary Lou Sole

1. ISBN-10

   0323641938
2. ISBN-13

   978-0323641937

3. Begin right here to grasp the ideas, know-how, and procedures of important care nursing! Introduction to Critical Care Nursing, 8th Edition prepares you to present secure, efficient, patient-centered care in a wide range of high-acuity, progressive, and important care settings. Proof-based protection contains life like case research and incorporates the newest advances in important care. Issues are conveniently organized by physique system or particular scenario, and nursing administration chapters embody quick-reference nursing care plans. This clear, concise textbook will provide help to develop the data and medical reasoning abilities wanted for fulfillment in right now’s extremely advanced important care environments.

   • Critical Reasoning Actions are included all through the textual content, selling improvement of medical nursing judgment to provide help to put together for the Subsequent-Era NCLEX-RN^® Examination.
   • Emphasis on QSEN competencies permits you to acquire the data, abilities, and attitudes wanted to present secure, high-quality well being care in a wide range of excessive acuity, progressive, and important care settings.
   • Proof-Based mostly Apply containers illustrate how analysis proof is used to handle issues in affected person care and contains nursing implications plus AACN’s new system for Ranges of Proof: A, B, C, D, E, and M.
   • Common Collaborative Plan of Care for the Critically Unwell Affected person addresses key points of collaborative/interprofessional care that apply to nearly all critically sick sufferers.
     • Particular person Plans of Careput together you for medical observe by describing affected person issues, affected person outcomes, and nursing assessments and interventions with rationales.
     • Case research problem you to apply ideas to the true world, testing your medical nursing judgment by asking questions on patient-specific instances with lab outcomes.
     • Scientific Alerts spotlight potential issues and considerations to enhance affected person security and medical care.
       • Laboratory Alerts emphasize the significance of laboratory check outcomes to important care nursing.
         • Treatment tables present the actions/usages, indications, dosages/routes, unintended effects, and nursing implications of medicines generally utilized in important care settings.
         • Protection of cardiac assistive units contains the ECMO system for extracorporeal life help, in addition to different small, moveable, bedside cardiac-assistive units.
         • Hemodynamic monitoring content material now emphasizes the noninvasive strategies of hemodynamic monitoring which can be changing into extra outstanding.
         • Protection of an infection management addresses the QSEN security competency and helps present affected person safety towards the rising menace of drug-resistant infections.
         • Almost 300 full-color images and drawings visually make clear key ideas and tools for higher understanding of right now’s advanced important care surroundings.
         • NEW! Examine Break questions in multiple-choice format break up the chapters into easy-to-read content material “chunks” and make it simple to verify your understanding, with solutions and rationales at the back of the ebook.
         • NEW! Transplant Concerns containers spotlight important info associated to affected person care in preparation for organ transplantation, managing problems, and stopping rejection; protection of palliative care helps the textual content’s robust concentrate on end-of-life care; and the revised Organ Donation chapter focuses on a sensible analysis of dying sufferers for organ donation and preservation.
         • UPDATED! Illustrations embody photographs of state-of-the artwork tools to familiarize you with the trendy, high-tech important care surroundings.
         • NEW! Emphasis on affected person issues (in lieu of NANDA diagnoses) promotes interprofessional collaborative observe by utilizing phrases which can be simply understood by numerous members of the healthcare group.
         • NEW! Enhanced, application-level questions on the companion Evolve web site emphasize immediate recognition of fixing traits in affected person parameters.
         • UPDATED! Lifespan Concerns containers now embody info on older adults, addressing the “graying of our inhabitants,” and pregnant ladies.
         • UPDATED! Genetics containers function a brand new Genetic Ideas field.