Critical care nursing : a holistic approach / [edited by] Patricia Gonce Morton, Dorrie K. Fontaine.

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Other Authors: Morton, Patricia Gonce, 1952-
Fontaine, Dorrie K.
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2013], ©2013.
Edition:Tenth edition.
Subjects:
Intensive care nursing.
Holistic nursing.
Critical Care.
Holistic Nursing.
Physical Description:xxx, 1,321 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Critical care nursing practice: promoting excellence through caring, collaboration, and evidence
  • The patient's experience with critical illness
  • The family's experience with critical illness
  • Patient and family education in critical care
  • Relieving pain and providing comfort
  • Palliative care and end-of-life issues in critical care
  • Ethical issues in critical care nursing
  • Legal issues in critical care nursing
  • Building a professional practice model for excellence in critical care nursing
  • The critically ill pediatric patient
  • The critically ill pregnant woman
  • The critically ill older patient
  • The postanesthesia patient
  • Rapid response teams and transport of the critically ill patient
  • Disaster management: implications for the critical care nurse
  • Anatomy and physiology of the cardiovasular system
  • Patient assessment: cardiovascular system
  • Patient management: cardiovascular system
  • Common cardiovascular disorders
  • Heart failure
  • Acute myocardial infarction
  • Cardiac surgery
  • Anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system
  • Patient assessment: respiratory system
  • Patient management: respiratory system
  • Common respiratory disorders
  • Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome
  • Anatomy and physiology of the renal system
  • Patient assessment: renal system
  • Patient management: renal system
  • Renal failure
  • Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system
  • Patient assessment: nervous system
  • Patient management: nervous system
  • Common neurosurgical and neurological disorders
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Spinal cord injury
  • Anatomy and physiology of the gastrointestinal system
  • Patient assessment: gastrointestinal system
  • Patient management: gastrointestinal system
  • Common gastrointestinal disorders
  • Anatomy and physiology of the endocrine system
  • Patient assessment: endocrine system
  • Common endocrine disorders
  • Anatomy and physiology of the hematological and immune systems
  • Patient assessment: hematological and immune systems
  • Organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
  • Common immunological disorders
  • Common hematological disorders
  • Anatomy and physiology of the integumentary system
  • Patient assessment: integumentary system
  • Patient management: integumentary system
  • Burns and common integumentary disorders
  • Shock, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
  • Trauma
  • Drug overdose and poisoning.