| Description |
xxii, 814 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
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Paperback |
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Acccn's Critical Care Nursing |
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Acccn's Critical Care Nursing
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| Contents |
14. Respiratory alterations and management -- 15. Ventilation and oxygenation management -- 16. Neurological assessment and monitoring -- 17. Neurological alterations and management -- 18. Support of renal function -- 19. Gastrointestinal, liver and nutritional alterations -- 20. Management of shock -- 21. Mulitple organ dysfunction syndrome -- Sect. 3: Specialty practice in critical care. 22. Emergency presentations -- 23. Trauma management -- 24. Resuscitation -- 25. Paediatric considerations in critical care -- 26. Pregnancy and postpartum considerations -- 27. Organ donation and transplantation |
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Sect. 1: Scope of critical care. 1. Scope of critical care practice -- 2. Resourcing critical care -- 3. Quality and safety -- 4. Recovery and rehabilitation -- 5. Ethical issues in critical care -- Sect. 2: Principles and practice of critical care. 6. Essential nursing care of the critically ill patient -- 7. Psychological care -- 8. Family and cultural care of the critically ill patient -- 9. Cardiovascular assessment and monitoring -- 10. Cardiovascular alterations and management -- 11. Cardiac rhythm assessment and management-- 12. Cardiac surgery and transplantation-- 13. Respiratory assessment and monitoring -- |
| Summary |
Provides detailed coverage of a number of specialty areas within critical care nursing including intensive care, emergency nursing, cardiac nursing, neuroscience nursing and acute care. It will encourage students to be reflective practitioners, ethical decision makers and providers of evidence based care. Australian authors |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Previously published: 2007 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Technical/Vocational/TAFE, Tertiary/Undergraduate, Postgraduate |
| Notes |
Also available online |
| Subject |
Catastrophic illness -- Nursing.
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Critical care medicine.
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Critically ill -- Nursing.
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Intensive care nursing -- Australia.
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Intensive care nursing.
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Critical Care -- methods.
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Critical Care.
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Critical Illness -- nursing.
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Nursing Care -- methods.
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Critical Care -- methods.
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Critical Illness -- nursing.
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Critical Care.
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Nursing Care.
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Critical Care Nursing.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
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New Zealand. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009520 |
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Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
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New Zealand. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009520 |
| Author |
Aitken, Leanne M., editor
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Chaboyer, Wendy, editor
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Elliott, Doug (Professor of nursing), editor
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Australian College of Critical Care Nurses.
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| ISBN |
9780729540681 (paperback) |
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