Fundamentals of Critical Care
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Fundamentals of Critical Care

A Textbook for Nursing and Healthcare Students

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eBook - PDF

Fundamentals of Critical Care

A Textbook for Nursing and Healthcare Students

About this book

Fundamentals of Critical Care

A Textbook for Nursing and Healthcare Students

In Fundamentals of Critical Care, a team of clinicians and health educators deliver an accessible, timely, and evidence-based introduction to the role of nurses and healthcare practitioners in critical care. The book explores fundamental concepts in critical care and their implications for practice. Each chapter outlines essential knowledge necessary to understand key concepts and includes high quality, full-colour artwork to enhance learning and recall.

Readers are also provided with clinical scenarios, practice questions, and red and orange flags to indicate physiological and psychological alerts respectively. Covering a range of common and specialised disease processes and treatments requiring critical care, the book provides:

  • A thorough introduction to the critical care unit, including philosophies of care, ways of working, humanisation, and outreach
  • Comprehensive exploration of organisational influences, including political, local, national, and international influences
  • Practical discussion of legal, ethical, and professional issues, as well as evidence-based approaches to critical care
  • In-depth examination of nursing care assessment tools, nursing communication, cognition, pharmacology, and more

Perfect for nursing students and trainee nursing associates, Fundamentals of Critical Care: A Textbook for Nursing and Healthcare Students will also earn a place in the libraries of healthcare students in physiotherapy, paramedicine, medicine, and those returning to practice.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781119783251
eBook ISBN
9781119783275
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Nursing

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. How to use your textbook
  9. About the companion website
  10. Chapter 1 The critical care unit
  11. Chapter 2 Organisational influences
  12. Chapter 3 Legal and ethical issues
  13. Chapter 4 Professional issues in critical care
  14. Chapter 5 Using an evidence-based approach
  15. Chapter 6 Nursing care
  16. Chapter 7 Skin integrity
  17. Chapter 8 Shock
  18. Chapter 9 Communication
  19. Chapter 10 Electronic health records
  20. Chapter 11 Pharmacology
  21. Chapter 12 Anaesthesia and sedation
  22. Chapter 13 Medicines management and drug calculations
  23. Chapter 14 Neurological critical care
  24. Chapter 15 Cognition
  25. Chapter 16 Respiratory care: intubation and mechanical ventilation
  26. Chapter 17 Lung function in critical care
  27. Chapter 18 Cardiac physiology
  28. Chapter 19 Cardiovascular critical care
  29. Chapter 20 Fluids and electrolytes incritically ill patients
  30. Chapter 21 Critical care emergencies
  31. Chapter 22 Gastrointestinal critical care
  32. Chapter 23 Nutrition in critical care
  33. Chapter 24 Renal critical care
  34. Chapter 25 Endocrine critical care
  35. Chapter 26 Haematological and immunological critical care
  36. Chapter 27 Musculoskeletal considerations in critical care
  37. Chapter 28 Burn care within a criticalcare setting
  38. Chapter 29 Maternal critical care
  39. Chapter 30 Critical care transfers
  40. Chapter 31 Rehabilitation after critical illness
  41. Chapter 32 Dying and death
  42. Index
  43. EULA