Title:
Critical care nursing practice guide : a road map for students and new graduates / Elizabeth Simon.
Author:
Simon, Elizabeth, 1960-
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Eyeballing your patient -- Taking and giving shift report -- Assessing your patient -- Machines, monitors, and meters -- Labs, levels, and labels -- Graphs and waves -- Drugs, drips, and drops -- Emergencies in ICU -- Procedures in the ICU -- Planning your day -- Special ICUs -- Transporting the critically ill patient -- Documentation -- Excellence in practice -- Practice pearls.
Critical Care Nursing Practice Guide: A Road Map for Students and New Graduates is an essential step-by-step practical guide that helps new nursing graduates and nursing students assigned to critical care gain the confidence they need to provide optimal care to their patients. This comprehensive text teachers inexperienced nurses how to systematically assess their patients, plan individualized care, implement therapeutic modalities with competence, collaborate effectively, and evaluate the effectiveness of nursing actions. Covering areas such as how to begin, organize, prioritize, analyze, reason, and decide in daily routines and emergencies in the critical care setting, this book enables the novice to become an expert. --Book Jacket.
Publisher:
Jones & Bartlett Learning,
Publication Place:
Sudbury, MA :
ISBN:
9780763778484
0763778486
Subject:
Intensive care nursing.
Critical Illness -- nursing.
Critical Care -- methods.
Critical Care -- organization & administration.
Intensive care nursing.
Contents:
Eyeballing your patient -- Taking and giving shift report -- Assessing your patient -- Machines, monitors, and meters -- Labs, levels, and labels -- Graphs and waves -- Drugs, drips, and drops -- Emergencies in ICU -- Procedures in the ICU -- Planning your day -- Special ICUs -- Transporting the critically ill patient -- Documentation -- Excellence in practice -- Practice pearls.
Physical Description:
xiii, 350 pages : illustrations
Publication Date:
أ2011.
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