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Fifth Edition
By
Linda Urden, DNSc, RN, CNA-BC, FAAN, Executive Director, Nursing Quality, Education & Research, Palomar Pomerado Health, Escondido, CA; Clinical
Professor, Coordinator, Executive Nurse Leader Tract, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
Kathleen Stacy, MS, RN, CNS, CCRN, Nurse Manager/Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, Intermediate Care Unit, Palomar Medical Center, Escondido, CA;
Adjunct Faculty Member, School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
Mary Lough, RN, MS, CNS, CCRN, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Medical/Surgical/Trauma ICU, Stanford University Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Associate
Clinical Professor, Department of Physciological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Description
In this essentials version of the bestselling critical care nursing textbook (Thelan's Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management,
5th Edition), Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 5th Edition concisely addresses all of the core critical care nursing topics and
helps you identify priorities to effectively manage patient care. Priorities in Critical Care Nursing also covers ethical and legal issues,
patient and family education, psychosocial alterations, sleep alterations, nutritional alterations, gerontologic considerations, and
end-of-life care.
Contents
Unit One: FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL CARE NURSING PRACTICE
1. Caring for the Critically Ill Patient
2. Ethical
and Legal Issues
3. Patient and Family Education
Unit Two: COMMON PROBLEMS IN CRITICAL CARE
4.
Psychosocial Alterations
5. Sleep Alterations
6. Nutritional Alterations
7. Gerontologic Alterations
8. Pain
and Pain Management
9. Sedation, Agitation, and Delirium Management
10. End-of-Life Care
Unit Three: CARDIOVASCULAR
ALTERATIONS
11. Cardiovascular Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
12. Cardiovascular Disorders
13. Cardiovascular
Therapeutic Management
Unit Four: PULMONARY ALTERATIONS
14. Pulmonary Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
15.
Pulmonary Disorders
16. Pulmonary Therapeutic Management
Unit Five: NEUROLOGIC ALTERATIONS
17.
Neurologic Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
18. Neurologic Disorders and Therapeutic Management
Unit Six: RENAL
ALTERATIONS
19. Renal Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
20. Renal Disorders and Therapeutic Management
Unit
Seven: GASTROINTESTINAL ALTERATIONS
21. Gastrointestinal Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
22. Gastrointestinal
Disorders and Therapeutic Management
Unit Eight: ENDOCRINE ALTERATIONS
23. Endocrine Assessment and Diagnostic
Procedures
24. Endocrine Disorders and Therapeutic Management
Unit Nine: MULTISYSTEM ALTERATIONS
25.
Trauma
26. Shock and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
27. Hematologic and Oncologic Issues
Unit Ten:
NURSING MANAGEMENT PLANS OF CARE
APPENDIX
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 672 pages, publication date: OCT-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-05259-7
ISBN-10: 0-323-05259-2
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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