Care of the Acutely Ill Adult

by Creed, Fiona; Spiers, Christine

• ISBN13: 9780198793458
• ISBN10: 0198793456
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-12-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Fiona Creed, Academic programme lead, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK,Christine Spiers, Principle lecturer, School of Health Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

Fiona is an experience Nurse Educator. She qualified in 1988 at Guy's Hospital, London and has worked clinically in cardiology and critical care in London and Sussex. Fiona has 12 years' experience as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton, where she led the Acute Care Nursing BSC pathway. Fiona relocated to Oxford in 2016 and is currently working as an academic programme lead for the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where she leads development on in-house academic programmes. Fiona's areas of nursing expertise is recognising and responding to the deteriorating patient and she continues to lead on this in-house for the Masters level programme at Oxford University Hospitals.

Chrissie is a qualified nurse, lecturer, and Cardiac specialist nurse who has worked in the field of Acute and Cardiac Care for 40 years. For the last 15 years Chrissie has been a Principal Lecturer at the School of Health Sciences at the University of Brighton, specialising in the teaching of Cardiology to health care professionals. She has published over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, has co-edited three books, and has contributed chapters to over 10 textbooks in the field of Acute and Cardiac Care. She is an active member of the British Association for Nursing in Cardiac Care, where she holds the role of Junior Secretary.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to acute care, Fiona Creed
2. Respiratory assessment and care, Daren Briscoe
3. Cardiovascular assessment and care, Chrissie Spiers
4. Neurological care, Fiona Creed
5. Acute Kidney Injury, Cristina Osorio
6. Gastrointestinal tract (name of chapter TBC), Kathy Martyn
7. Fluid assessment and associated treatment, Heather Baid
8. Assessment and care of the septic patient, Kevin Barrett
9. Pain assessment and management in acute care, Wendy Caddye
10. Systematic assessment, escalation, and outreach, Fiona Creed
11. Acute emergency situations, Lorna East
12. Transfer of acutely ill patients, Emma Gardner
13. Emergency treatment and care, Kate Kemsley