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Critical Care Nursing: Synergy for Optimal Outcomes

Author(s): Roberta Kaplow, RN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS, DeKalb Medical Center
Sonya R. Hardin, RN, PhD, CCRN, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763738631
  • ISBN-10:0763738638
  • Hardcover    778 pages      © 2007
Price: International Sales $133.95 US List
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Overview

Need a Change for Your Critical Care Nursing Course?

Designed to help the undergraduate nursing student in a critical care rotation and for nurses new to critical care, each chapter of Critical Care Nursing has application to the AACN Synergy Model, identifying and matching patient characteristics and nurse competencies, leading to optimal patient outcomes.

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In addition to the core critical care nursing content, this unique text covers the following topics:

  • Organ donation (including care of the donor as well as the organ recipient)
  • Care of the postanesthesia patient
  • Complementary therapies
  • Common drug overdoses and poisonings
  • Palliative care and death and dying in the ICU
  • Family-focused care

The book features case studies, critical thinking questions, multiple choice NCLEX-style review questions, evidence-based online resources, and student activities.

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  • Each clinical chapter relates to the AACN Synergy Model, providing the reader with a theoretical basis for care
  • Each chapter has evidence-based online resources
  • Each clinical chapter has a case study with critical thinking questions
  • Each chapter contains student activities at the end of each chapter designed to help the student utilize the Synergy Model to patient care in the clinical setting

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Introduction
Chapter 1: Implementation of the Synergy Model in Critical Care
Caring Practices
Chapter 2: Family-Focused Care
Chapter 3: Creating a Healing Environment in the ICU
Chapter 4: Pain Issues in the ICU
Chapter 5: Sleep Disturbances in the ICU

Chapter 6: Infections in the ICU

Response to Diversity
Chapter 7: Gerontologic Issues in Critical Care
Chapter 8: Cultural Issues in Critical Illness
Chapter 9:Complementary Therapies in the ICU

Clinical Judgment
Cardiovascular
Chapter 10: Cardiac Anatomy, Physiology, and Assessment
Chapter 11: Hemodynamic Monitoring
Chapter 12: Coronary Artery Disease
Chapter 13: Hypertension
Chapter 14: Acute Coronary Syndromes
Chapter 15: Heart Failure
Chapter 16: Cardiac Assist Devices
Chapter 17: Cardiac Surgery/Transplant
Chapter 18:  Shock

Respiratory
Chapter 19: Vascular Disorders
Chapter 20: Respiratory Anatomy, Physiology, and Assessment
Chapter 21: Respiratory Monitoring
Chapter 22: Select Respiratory Disorders, Airway Adjuncts, and Non-invasive Ventilation
Chapter 23: Mechanical Ventilation
Chapter 24: Common Respiratory Disorders
Chapter 25: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Neurology
Chapter 26: Neurologic Anatomy, Physiology, and Assessment
Chapter 27: Multimodal Neurologic Monitoring
Chapter 28: Common Neurologic Disorders
Chapter 29: Neurovascular Disorders
Chapter 30: Cerebrovascular Disorders

Gastrointestinal
Chapter 31: Gastrointestinal Anatomy, Physiology, and Assessment
Chapter 32: GI Interventions
Chapter 33: Nutritional Concepts for Clinical Practice in the Critically Ill Adult
Chapter 34: GI Bleeding
Chapter 35: Hepatic Failure
Chapter 36: Hepatitis
Chapter 37: Pancreatitis

Endocrine
Chapter 38: Endocrine Anatomy, Physiology, and Assessment
Chapter 39: Thyroid Disorders
Chapter 40: Adrenal Disorders
Chapter 41: Pituitary Disorders
Chapter 42: Diabetic Emergencies

Renal
Chapter 43: Renal Anatomy, Physiology, and Assessment
Chapter 44: Acute Renal Failure
Chapter 45: Interventions for Renal System
Chapter 46: End-Stage Renal Disease and Renal Transplantation

Hematology
Chapter 47: Oncologic Emergencies
Chapter 48: HIV/AIDS
Chapter 49: Thrombocytopenia
Chapter 50: DIC

Systems Thinking
Chapter 51: SIRS and Sepsis
Chapter 52: Burns
Chapter 53: Managing the Transition from the Hospital

Collaboration
Chapter 54: Recovery of the Postanesthesia Patient
Chapter 55: Trauma
Chapter 56:
Drug Overdose and Poisonings

Advocacy and Moral Agency
Chapter 57: Bioethical Issues Concerning Death in the Intensive Care Setting
Chapter 58: Organ Donation
Chapter 59: Palliative Care in the ICU

 

 

 


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ShowAbout the Author(s)

Roberta Kaplow, RN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS-DeKalb Medical Center

Dr. Roberta Kaplow received her BSN from Long Island University and her MA and PhD from New York University. She is a past-director on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and AACN Certification Corporation. She has served on several committees and task forces for that organization including the Adult CCRN Item Writers and Exam Development Committees, Practice Analysis Task Force, Nominating Committee, and Strategic Thinking as well as local chapter committees.

Dr. Roberta Kaplow has been a critical care nurse for 29 years. She has worked in a variety of settings and in a variety of roles including staff nurse, nurse educator, nurse clinician, and clinical nurse specialist. She is nationally known as a speaker on a variety of critical care nursing topics, Synergy Model, and other issues related to the care of acute and critically ill patients. She was also the first nurse awarded as a Distinguished Cancer Scholar by the Georgia Cancer Coalition.

She is the co-editor and co-author in the books titled Synergy for Clinical Excellence: The AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care and Critical Care Nursing: Synergy for Optimal Outcomes. She is on the editorial board and serves as a reviewer of manuscripts for Applied Nursing Research.

Dr. Roberta Kaplow was the recipient of the 2008 Nursing Spectrum southeast region award for Advancing and Leading the Profession. In addition to her current role as a clinical nurse specialist, she is also an instructor for two graduate nursing research courses for Excelsior College in Albany, NY

Sonya R. Hardin, RN, PhD, CCRN-University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina

Dr. Sonya R. Hardin received her PhD from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, MSN & BSN from the University of NC at Charlotte, MSN/MHA from Pfeiffer University and completed a Post Doc at the University of NC at Chapel Hill in 2006.

She is known nationally for her work with the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and has served on numerous task forces for AACN including those focused on the development of the AACN Synergy Model, the AACN Study of Practice and most recently the task force to revise the Standard of Practice for Critical Care Nursing.

Dr. Hardin has held positions as staff nurse, Director of Critical Care and Dialysis Services, Director of Nursing Systems, and house supervisor. She has recently completed her Adult Practitioner certificate from East Carolina University in Greenville, NC.

She is the co-editor and co-author in the books titled Synergy for Clinical Excellence: The AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care and Critical Care Nursing: Synergy for Optimal Outcomes. She is a reviewer of manuscripts for The Journal of Gerontological Nursing and Research in Geriatric Nursing. Over the last five years, she has co-edited the journal Visions: The Journal of Rogerian Nursing

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  • “Overall I thought it was an outstanding book. I frequently review critical care review courses for CEU's and thought the information in your publication was very well put together. Thanks for sharing it with me!”

     

    --Ellen Ketcherside

    Mineral Area College

    Park Hills, MO

     

     

    "The text by Kaplow & Hardin is excellent…The text is written in a plain enough way for the beginning RN ICU practitioner to follow and rapidly build their knowledge to a safe and effective level."

     

    --Meg Wilson, RN, MSN, Ed.D.

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ShowAppropriate Courses

Critical care rotation, usually in the senior year of nursing school—offered in the department of adult and elder health.

Nursing education departments at hospitals that offer a nurse externship

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