Offers comprehensive coverage of various aspects of critical care nursing practice. This textbook is organized in units around alterations in body systems, with a focus on evidence-based practice, collaborative management, and patient safety.

Covers heart and breath sounds from the simple to the complex. This title also provides a comprehensive text explaining heart and breath sound fundamentals including basic anatomy and physiology, best auscultation locations, tips on how to identify each sound, and what to document.

Focuses on Obesity-related risks and prevention strategies; Pulmonary considerations of the obese patient; cardiovascular effects of obesity; Postoperative coronary artery bypass patients; Nutritional needs of critically ill obese patients; Pain management in critically ill obese; and Sedation of critically ill obese.

A comprehensive guidebook that clearly delineates the role of the nurse practitioner in the intensive care environment. It describes the complex pathophysiology and appropriate management of common problems that are encountered in the critical care environment, including trauma, infections, and disease.

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Care Nursing provides nurses working in Critical Care (including intensive and high dependency care) with an easily accessible guide to the knowledge and nursing care skills needed in critical care. Patient-centred, this is the essential practical resource for all nurses working in critical care.

Presents an introduction to aspects of care and management in critical care. This book contains information on patient assessment, ventilation, haemodynamic monitoring, emergencies, critical care interventions, common conditions and pharmacology, relating to critical care.

Presents an examination of various aspects of critical care nursing. This book is organized in ten units around alterations in body systems. It is suitable for both novice and expert.

Suitable for nurses entering or needing a refresher in critical care nursing, this book presents information on over 100 critical care disorders. It features memory joggers, recurring icons to emphasize key points. It also includes information on hemodynamic monitoring and trauma, and a CD-ROM containing over 300 NCLEX[registered]-style questions.

Nurses' Stories from the ICU.

A companion to ECG Interpretation Made Incredibly Easy , it features 250 practice exercises that help readers master ECG interpretation with ease. It includes chapters that test the reader's knowledge of essential ECG topics, including ECG fundamentals, arrhythmia interpretation, and 12-lead ECGs.

While high dependency care may be delivered in designated high dependency units, it also occurs in many other clinical environments. This book provides information for nurses working in acute hospital wards and departments including recovery units, high dependency units, acute surgical or medical wards, and accident and emergency units.

Discusses psychosocial concepts of care and progresses through assessment and management of a variety of disorders. This book presents theory and principles within the context of practical application which helps the reader gain competence and confidence in caring for critically ill patients and their families.

Part of the Nursing Secrets Series , this book is helpful for both new and experienced critical care nurses. Written in a question-and-answer format, each of the 79 chapters includes helpful features, such as key points and Internet resources.

This book is an introduction to critical care. It is focused on elements that are essential for the novice critical care nurse to understand, whether the novice is a student or a new graduate. A recurrent theme in this book is safe practice.

A practical guide to recognising and treating acutely ill patients at risk of further deterioration.

Filled with checklists, illustrations, diagrams, flowcharts, and tables, this reference gives nurses useful clinical facts in critical care nursing. It includes contents which are organized into tabbed sections: assessment, disorders, diagnostic tests, skills, medications and IVs, and patient teaching.

Reflecting AACN content on the CCRN certification exam, this book provides the information nurses need to achieve CCRN certification. It covers various topics found on the exam ranging from disorders by body system, to multisystem disorders, to professional caring and ethical practice concepts. It also provides answers with rationales.

With discussions of more than 230 of the common conditions experienced by adult patients in acute care, this comprehensive clinical reference tailored to the needs of advance practice nurses.