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Critical Care Nursing Practice Guide: A Road Map for Students and New Graduates

Author(s): Elizabeth Simon, RN, PhD, CCRN, CEN, ANP, Professor & Director, School of Nursing, Nyack College, Nyack, New York
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763778484
  • Paperback    350 pages      © 2011
Price: International Sales $45.95 US List
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Overview

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, new critical care and nursing students assigned to intensive care units (ICU) gain the confidence they need to provide optimal care to their patients. This comprehensive text teaches 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 in the ICU. Valuable features such as chapter objectives, summaries, and key terms are included.

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Introduction  
Chapter 1  Eyeballing Your Patient
Chapter 2  Taking and Giving Shift Report
Chapter 3  Assessing Your Patient
Chapter 4  Machines, Monitors and Meters
Chapter 5  Labs, Levels and Labels
Chapter 6  Graphs and Waves
Chapter 7  Drugs, Drips and Drops
Chapter 8  Emergencies in ICU
Chapter 9  Procedures in the ICU
Chapter 10  Planning Your Day
Chapter 11  Special ICUs
Chapter 12  Transporting the Critically Ill Patient
Chapter 13  Documentation and Reporting
Chapter 14  Excellence in Practice
Chapter 15  Practice Pearls
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ShowAbout the Author(s)

Elizabeth Simon, RN, PhD, CCRN, CEN, ANP-Professor & Director, School of Nursing, Nyack College, Nyack, New York

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ShowAppropriate Courses

Ideal for nursing students in critical care courses

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