Introduction to Critical Care Nursing (8th Edition) – eBook

Embark on your journey to mastering the essential concepts, technologies, and practices of critical care nursing! The 8th Edition of Introduction to Critical Care Nursing equips you to deliver safe, effective, and patient-centered care across a range of high-acuity, progressive, and critical care settings. Featuring evidence-based content, this edition includes realistic case studies and the latest advancements in critical care. Disorders are systematically organized by body system or special situations, and nursing management sections offer quick-reference care plans. This well-structured and concise textbook will enhance your knowledge and clinical reasoning skills, preparing you for success in today’s intricate critical care environments. In The Introduction to Critical Care Nursing 8th Edition, authors equips you to deliver safe, effective, and patient-centered care across a range of high-acuity, progressive,

• Laboratory Alerts emphasize the importance of laboratory test results to critical care nursing.
• Clinical Alerts highlight potential problems and concerns to improve patient safety and clinical care.
• Critical Reasoning Activities are included throughout the textbook, promoting development of clinical nursing judgment to help you prepare for the Next-Generation NCLEX-RN® Exam.
• Emphasis on QSEN competencies enables you to gain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to provide safe, high-quality health care in a variety of high acuity, progressive, and critical care settings.
• Universal Collaborative Plan of Care for the Critically Ill Patient addresses key aspects of collaborative/interprofessional care that apply to virtually all critically ill patients.
• Individual Plans of Careprepare you for clinical practice by describing patient problems, patient outcomes, and nursing assessments and interventions with rationales.
• Case studies challenge you to apply concepts to the real world, testing your clinical nursing judgment by asking questions about patient-specific cases with lab results.
• Medication tables show the actions/usages, indications, dosages/routes, side effects, and nursing implications of medications commonly used in critical care settings.
• Coverage of cardiac assistive devices includes the ECMO device for extracorporeal life support, as well as other small, portable, bedside cardiac-assistive devices.
• Hemodynamic monitoring content now emphasizes the noninvasive methods of hemodynamic monitoring that are becoming more prominent.
• Coverage of infection control addresses the QSEN safety competency and helps provide patient protection against the growing threat of drug-resistant infections.
• Nearly 300 full-color photographs and drawings visually clarify key concepts and equipment for better understanding of today’s complex critical care environment.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes illustrate how research evidence is used to address problems in patient care and includes nursing implications plus AACN’s new system for Levels of Evidence: A, B, C, D, E, and M.

• UPDATED! Genetics boxes feature a new Genetic Concepts box.
• NEW! Study Break questions in multiple-choice format break up the chapters into easy-to-read content “chunks” and make it easy to check your understanding, with answers and rationales in the back of the ebook.
• UPDATED! Illustrations include photos of state-of-the art equipment to familiarize you with the modern, high-tech critical care environment.
• NEW! Emphasis on patient problems (in lieu of NANDA diagnoses) promotes interprofessional collaborative practice by using terms that are easily understood by various members of the healthcare team.
• NEW! Enhanced, application-level questions on the companion Evolve website emphasize prompt recognition of changing trends in patient parameters.
• UPDATED! Lifespan Considerations boxes now include information on older adults, addressing the “graying of our population,” and pregnant women.
• NEW! Transplant Considerations boxes highlight essential information related to patient care in preparation for organ transplantation, managing complications, and preventing rejection; coverage of palliative care supports the text’s strong focus on end-of-life care; and the revised Organ Donation chapter focuses on a practical evaluation of dying patients for organ donation and preservation.

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