Priorities in Critical Care Nursing - E-Book

PRIORITIES IN CRITICAL CARE NURSING, Third Edition succinctly addresses all the topics crucial to students or beginning critical care nurses. Designed for 9-13 week critical care classes, this new edition prepares the reader to integrate the technology of critical care with psychosocial concerns in order to provide high-quality nursing care.

Discussions of pathophysiology, disorders, medical, and nursing management are research-based. Covering everything from the foundations of critical care nursing practice to nursing management, the reader will easily identify essential information with the help of special call out boxes throughout the text. Each nursing management plan incorporates nursing diagnosis, etiologic or related factors, clinical manifestations, and interventions with rationales. They are also liberally cross-referenced throughout the book.