This tightly focused guide has been substantially reorganized to reflect faculty and student feedback. This edition adds bulleted chapter summaries; NCLEX-style posttest items; updated Emerging Evidence boxes; coverage of oncological emergencies, hypertensive crises, and acute aortic problems; adult doses in Related Pharmacotherapy boxes; and a brand-new chapter on complications associated with metabolic stress response. Teaching and Learning Experience This book is designed to help learners rapidly gain mastery and confidence.
Cram Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram Outlines are Textbook Specific. Cram is NOT the Textbook. Accompanys: This new seventh edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the current state of high acuity, progressive, and critical care nursing practice and includes expanded coverage of pain management, palliative care, and end-of-life care; transplantation; and key AACN initiatives.
Authored by the experts at the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses AACN , this is the definitive guide to critical care nursing certification and clinical practice. Concise outline format is organized by body system to make information easy to digest. Clinical Pearls and Key Concepts boxes highlight key content and serve as a convenient quick reference. Improved navigation includes printed index tabs to help distinguish chapters and find information fast.
Basic to advanced levels of coverage, with an emphasis on clinical nursing practice, prepare you for the full range of knowledge you will encounter on the CCRN exam and in practice. A new chapter on Critical Care Patients with Special Needs includes bariatric and geriatric patients in critical care, as well as high-risk obstetric patients.
Features new content on chest tubes, liver transplantation for acute liver failure, spirituality, and spiritual aspects of care. Features AHRQ evidence-based practice guidelines as reference sources for practice interventions.
New organization for Patient Care presents patient problems, needs, etc. The Fifth Edition of High Acuity Nursing delivers essential understanding of complex patients and instructs both students and nurses on how to provide nursing care in varied clinical settings.
Broken down into a series of learner-focused modules, High Acuity Nursing takes complex information and presents it in smaller, more accessible chunks that promote easier mastery by readers.
With a focus on concepts and principles that can be applied across pr. As acuity increases in all inpatient departments and the practice of pediatric critical care expands beyond the acute phase of illness or injury, knowledge of pediatric critical care is more essential than ever. Pediatric acute and critical care nurses find themselves handling not only their patients, but care of their families and management of an interprofessional team of caregivers.
The text covers anatomic, physiologic, cognitive, and psychosocial changes that occur throughout the pediatric lifespan. Chapters are systems focused and review developmental anatomy and physiology, clinical assessment, pharmacology, diagnostic tests, and therapeutic procedures. For each type of disease and injury, information is provided on pathophysiology, etiology, risk factors, signs and symptoms, nursing and collaborative interprofessional management, and complications.
You can also access these same practice exams, along with additional questions, on an accompanying Evolve website for interactive practice. Answers are provided for each question, accompanied by rationales and references, to assist you in remediation. Three item interactive exams on a secure Evolve site allow for access to interactive exam practice on any HTML5-compatible device, including desktop computers, iPhones, iPads, and Android devices. Updated content throughout ensures currency, accuracy, and consistency with standardized guidelines and the latest evidence-based practice.
Updated illustrations reflect current clinical procedures and assessment skills. This resource provides a concise rationale for high acuity and critical care by identifying the essential "need-to-know" content as the basis for safe, competent practice. The easy-to-read outline format serves as a quick resource for those relatively unstable situations and multiple system involvement often associated with critical and high acuity nursing care.
It visually guides you through procedures unique to the adult critical care environment, including those performed by advanced practice nurses, in an illustrated, step-by-step format. This edition features 17 new procedures, new illustrations, and updated content throughout, reflecting the latest evidence-based guidelines and national and international protocols. Authored by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, the foremost authority in critical care nursing, the AACN Procedure Manual is the most authoritative reference to procedures performed by nurses in high acuity, progressive, and critical care settings.
Comprehensive coverage includes all procedures commonly performed by nurses in high acuity, progressive, and critical care settings, including those performed by advanced practice nurses indicated by an AP icon.
A straightforward step-by-step organization uses consistent headings to make following a procedure and finding the various supporting elements quick and easy. Rationales for all interventions in patient and family education, assessment, patient preparation, procedure, and monitoring help you understand the reason for every step. The level of evidence is provided when an evidence base exists to substantiate an intervention, giving insight into the strength of information available.
Advanced practice procedures are clearly identified with an AP icon so you can judge whether a procedure is within your scope of practice. Alphabetical Procedure Index inside the front cover provides quick access to the procedures.
Written by more than expert critical care nurses and extensively reviewed by more than experts in critical care nursing to ensure the accuracy and currency of each procedure.
Bulleted lists, tables, and detailed illustrations throughout ensure that content is easy to reference and digest. Special Topics. Pearson offers affordable and accessible purchase options to meet the needs of your students. Connect with us to learn more.
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Out of print. High-Acuity Nursing, 6th Edition. Description For courses on high-acuity nursing intended to serve undergraduate nursing students, novice nurses, novice critical-care nurses, and home-health nurses. Teaching and Learning Experience This book is designed to help learners rapidly gain mastery and confidence.
All chapters updated to reflect new findings and standards of care —with many chapters also reorganized to promote more efficient learning Expert coverage of complications of high-acuity illness —including multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and sensory motor complications Thoroughly covers therapeutic support of high-acuity patients —preparing students for supportive interventions including pain management, nutrition support, mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic monitoring, basic cardiac rhythm monitoring, and complex wound management Contains eight sections of coverage of the most common complex health problems, assessments, and treatments —preparing students to care for high-acuity patients with problems related to hematology, pulmonary gas exchange, cardiac output, tissue perfusion, neurology, fluid and electrolyte balance, metabolic regulation, nutrition, and tissue integrity NEW!
Coverage of oncological emergencies, hypertensive crises, and acute aortic problems and crises —preparing students to handle a wider spectrum of medical events NEW! Adult dosages presented in Related Pharmacotherapy boxes —helping nurses participate more safely and effectively in recommending and administering medications Clear linkages between pathophysiological principles and clinical care: Emphasizes the pathophysiologic bases of disease throughout —providing the strong foundational knowledge learners need to understand associated disease manifestations and treatment rationales UPDATED!
Revised Emerging Evidence Boxes —preparing students to apply the latest research findings in high-acuity clinical care NEW! Bulleted chapter summaries —highlighting key points for easier and more productive review NEW!
Boldfaced keywords linked to a complete Glossary —giving students a single reference source for all the terminology they are likely to need. New to This Edition. All chapters updated to reflect new findings and standards of care —with many chapters also reorganized to promote more efficient learning NEW!
Adult dosages presented in Related Pharmacotherapy boxes —helping nurses participate more safely and effectively in recommending and administering medications Links pathophysiological principles and clinical care: UPDATED! Table of Contents I. Special Topics 1. High-Acuity Nursing 2.
Holistic Care of the Patient and Family 3. Hematologic Cellular Function 5. Determinants and Assessment of Hematologic Function 6. Alterations in White Blood Cell Function 8. Pulmonary Gas Exchange 9. Determinants and Assessment of Pulmonary Gas Exchange Alterations in Pulmonary Gas Exchange Cardiac Output Determinants and Assessment of Cardiac Output Assessment of Hemodynamic Status: Hemodynamic Monitoring Alterations in Cardiac Output Alterations in Myocardial Tissue Perfusion V.
Tissue Perfusion Neurologic Determinants and Assessment of Cerebral Tissue Perfusion
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