Critical Care Nursing E-Book: Essential Guide for ICU & Emergency Nurses - Perfect for Medical Students & Healthcare Professionals

NEW! UPDATED content is included throughout, especially in topics such as nutrition, feeding tube connectors, the new PAD guidelines for pain management, Rapid Response Teams, sepsis guidelines, and valvular disorders and TAVR.NEW! Critical Reasoning Activities are interspersed throughout the text, to better promote development of clinical nursing judgment.NEW! Universal Collaborative Care Plan for the Critically Ill Patient addresses important aspects of collaborative/interprofessional care that apply to virtually all critically ill patients. NEW! Increased coverage of infection control addresses the QSEN safety competency and helps provide patient protection against the growing threat of drug-resistant infections.NEW! Coverage of cardiac assistive devices includes ECMO and other small, portable, bedside cardiac assistive devices.NEW! Refocused hemodynamic monitoring content emphasizes the noninvasive methods of hemodynamic monitoring that are becoming more prominent.NEW! Increased coverage of palliative care supports the book's strong focus on end-of-life care.Revised Organ Donation chapter is refocused to help nurses provide holistic care to families facing difficult end-of-life choices regarding organ donation, rather than on the details of transplantation procedures. NEW Patient Problems focus shifts the book’s emphasis from nursing diagnoses to the interprofessional care of patient problems.