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Pearson India Understanding The Essentials Of Critical Care Nursing 3Rd Edition by Kathleen Perrin
An introduction to critical care that helps nurses deliver safe, effective care that optimizes patients’ outcomes Understanding the Essentials of Critical Care Nursing provides novice critical care nurses with a firm foundation so that they are able to understand the complexities of care; deliver safe, effective care; and begin their transition to expert nurses. It identifies concepts and techniques that are unique to critical care nursing and focuses on the essentials of providing care to patients with disorders that are commonly seen in critical care settings.Evidence-based practices, safety initiatives, commonly used medications, and leading technologies for providing better care are highlighted throughout the book. By concentrating on the problems that the new critical care nurse is most likely to encounter, the text establishes the groundwork students need to become increasingly effective nurses capable of offering advanced care.Features –Reflects a patient-centred approach that helps beginning critical care nurses deliver safe, effective care that optimizes patients’ outcomes.Keeps readers current with new recommendations for practice with significant changes in the provision of sedation and pain medication as well as the management of ventilation, heart failure, stroke, blood, or volume resuscitation in trauma, palliative care, and sepsis.Gerontologic and Bariatric Considerations in every chapter highlight the unique needs of the elderly and overweight.Building Technology Skills sections focus on the technologies nurses are most likely to encounter when caring for patients experiencing the conditions discussed in each chapter.Prepares students for the uniquely difficult challenges of caring for patients at the end of life.Essentials explore specific opportunities to promote comfort, provide nutrition, enhance communication, and maintain safety—reflecting the areas identified by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Nurse of the Future initiative.