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Focuses on the role of the CNS in acute and critical care, emphasizing the relationship between critical care nursing, the patient, and the environment of care. This book delivers information for health care along with practical tools for the CNS in acute and critical care settings.

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With moves towards improved quality of care and attempts to maximise health care benefit without increasing resources, the outcome of patients following critical illness has become an important focus. This book covers the aspects of outcome, describing their advantages and highlighting their weaknesses.

Provides comprehensive clinical content specifically tailored to perianesthesia nurses. This book integrates nursing and pharmacologic interventions with detailed pathophysiology. Focusing on research, documentation, and psychosocial considerations, it is a resource for preparation for ASPAN certification and clinical practice.

Covers Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine, Fifth Edition ; Murray, Coursin, Pearl and Prough's Critical Care Medicine: Perioperative Management, Second Edition ; and Marino's The ICU Book, Second Edition , plus Smyrnios, Irwin, Cerra and Rippe's Review of Intensive Care Medicine, Second Edition .

Features a training program for the development of critical care nurses with 75 continuing education contact credit hours.

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Hardin (nursing, University of North Carolina) and Kaplow (nursing, Emory University) enhance understanding of the AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care and provide nurses with the clinical knowledge they need to apply this model in practice. They review the history and development of the nurse and patient characteristics inherent in the model,