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9780763778484

Critical Care Nursing Practice Guide

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  • ISBN13:

    9780763778484

  • ISBN10:

    0763778486

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-09-22
  • Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

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Summary

Critical Care Nursing Practice Guide: A Road Map for Students and New Graduates is an essential, step-by-step, practical guide that helps new nursing graduates, new critical care and nursing students assigned to intensive care units gain the confidence they need to provide optimal care to their patients. This comprehensive text teaches inexperienced nurses how to systematically assess their patients, plan individualized care, implement therapeutic modalities with competence, collaborate effectively and evaluate the effectiveness of nursing actions. Covering areas such as how to begin, organize, prioritize, analyze, reason, and decide in daily routines and emergencies in the critical care setting, this book enables the novice to become an expert in the ICU. Valuable features such as chapter objectives, summaries, and key terms are included.

Table of Contents

Contributorsp. v
Introductionp. vii
Eyeballing Your Patientp. 1
Taking and Giving Shift Reportp. 7
Assessing Your Patientp. 15
Machines, Monitors, and Metersp. 35
Labs, Levels, and Labelsp. 63
Graphs and Wavesp. 99
Drugs, Drips, and Dropsp. 145
Emergencies in the ICUp. 169
Procedures in the ICUp. 197
Planning Your Dayp. 255
Special ICUsp. 265
Transporting the Critically Ill Patientp. 289
Documentationp. 295
Excellence in Practicep. 301
Practice Pearlsp. 311
Common Lab Testsp. 319
Drugs, Drips, and Dosagesp. 325
Hemodynamic Valuesp. 329
Indexp. 331
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