Uncover concise coverage of fundamental theories, practices, and competencies in critical care nursing! Overview of Advanced Care Nursing, 7th Edition aids nurses in delivering safe, efficient, patient-centered care across various critical care environments. Grounded on evidence, it incorporates realistic scenarios and integrates the latest advancements in critical care. Subjects are methodically arranged by anatomical system or specific circumstance, with nursing management sections containing quick-reference nursing care outlines. Tailored for single-semester courses, this easily digestible textbook will assist your students in honing their clinical reasoning abilities and excelling in today’s intricately complex critical care settings.
- Focusing on QSEN competencies enables you to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes for delivering safe, high-quality healthcare in a range of critical care environments.
- Evidence-Based Practice exemplars elucidate the application of research evidence in tackling patient care challenges, along with nursing implications and AACN’s revised Levels of Evidence system: A, B, C, D, E, and M.
- Real-life case studies engage you in applying concepts to practical scenarios, testing your critical thinking by posing inquiries on patient-specific situations with laboratory findings.
- Nursing Care Outlines equip you for clinical practice by outlining patient diagnoses and/or complications, patient outcomes, and nursing evaluations and interventions with explanations.
- Nearly 400 full-color diagrams and images clarify key concepts for enhanced comprehension.
- Clinical Alerts pinpoint potential challenges and issues, enhancing patient safety and clinical care.
- Lab Notifications emphasize the significance of laboratory test results in critical care nursing.
- Pharmacology charts detail the actions/uses, indications, dosages/routes, side effects, and nursing considerations for medications commonly utilized in high acuity, progressive, and critical care environments.
- UPDATED contents are integrated throughout, particularly in subjects like nutrition, feeding tube connectors, the revised PAD guidelines for pain management, Rapid Response Teams, sepsis guidelines, and valvular issues and TAVR.
- Critical Reasoning Exercises are interspersed in the text to further stimulate the development of clinical nursing judgment.
- A Universal Collaborative Care Plan for the Critically Ill Patient addresses crucial aspects of collaborative/interprofessional care applicable to almost all critically ill patients.
- Enhanced coverage of infection control emphasizes the QSEN safety competency and helps ensure patient protection against the escalating threat of drug-resistant infections.
- Coverage of cardiac assistive devices includes ECMO and other compact, portable, bedside cardiac assistive devices.
- Revitalized hemodynamic monitoring content stresses the noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring methods that are gaining prominence.
- Expanded coverage of palliative care supports the book’s strong focus on end-of-life care.
- Revised Organ Donation section is reoriented to aid nurses in providing holistic care to families grappling with challenging end-of-life decisions regarding organ donation, rather than solely focusing on transplantation procedures details.
- Innovative Patient Issue emphasis shifts the book’s focus from nursing diagnoses to the interdisciplinary care of patient concerns.
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