A Nurse's Survival Guide to Critical Care - Updated Edition
eBook - ePub

A Nurse's Survival Guide to Critical Care - Updated Edition

  1. 496 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Nurse's Survival Guide to Critical Care - Updated Edition

About this book

Are you a starting work in critical care? Are you an experienced nurse but need to check guidelines and best practices?

This is the indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems faced by nurses working in this specialty.

This book will help you to

  • Organise your job and yourself
  • Assess patients and communicate with them
  • Get clinical information on a wide range of conditions
  • What to do in emergency

This UPDATED edition:

  • Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field
  • Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis
  • Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career.

Part of the A Nurse's Survival Guide series

Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field

Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis

Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career.

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Yes, you can access A Nurse's Survival Guide to Critical Care - Updated Edition by Sharon L. Edwards,Joyce Williams in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Nursing. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9780702076541
eBook ISBN
9780702076558
Subtopic
Nursing

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Series Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Preface
  7. Section 1. General principles of critical care
  8. Section 2. Patient assessment and investigations
  9. Section 3. Critical care interventions
  10. Section 4. Common conditions/reasons for admission
  11. Section 5. Psychological and ethical care
  12. Section 6. Pharmacology
  13. References
  14. Further reading
  15. Appendix 1. Units of measurement
  16. Appendix 2. Normal values
  17. Appendix 3. Drug measurement and calculations
  18. Glossary
  19. Index