Description |
xx, 588 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Ch. 1. Thinking-in-Action and Reasoning-in-Transition: An Overview -- Ch. 2. Clinical Grasp and Clinical Inquiry: Problem Identification and Clinical Problem Solving -- Ch. 3. Clinical Forethought: Anticipating and Preventing Potential Problems -- Ch. 4. Diagnosing and Managing Life-Sustaining Physiologic Functions in Unstable Patients -- Ch. 5. The Skilled Know-How of Managing a Crisis -- Ch. 6. Providing Comfort Measures for the Critically Ill -- Ch. 7. Caring for Patients' Families -- Ch. 8. Preventing Hazards in a Technological Environment -- Ch. 9. Facing Death: End-of-Life Care and Decision Making -- Ch. 10. Communicating Multiple Clinical, Ethical, and Practical Perspectives -- Ch. 11. Monitoring Quality and Managing Breakdown -- Ch. 12. The Skilled Know-How of Clinical Leadership and the Coaching and Mentoring of Others -- App. A. Description of Research Design and Data Analysis -- App. B. Educational Strategies and Implications |
Summary |
Rather than reducing critical care to basic and easily understood principles, the authors attempt to ground critical care nursing in real time, in context, and in real practice situations. They take advantage of day-to-day nursing stories that illustrate the system of long-term care, and they allow these stories to highlight the concept of critical thinking involved in decision making. If there is an emphasis on the interdisciplinary team approach, then well-educated professionals can manage the unavoidable system breakdowns that occur, not with an emphasis on management of the breakdown but with an eye toward identifying the sources of breakdown and redesigning the system. This holistic view of management in critical care allows the continued development of a professional environment in critical care nursing, for both nurse administrators and nurses |
Notes |
"CD-Rom for Windows and Macintosh"--cd |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Caring.
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Clinical competence.
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Helping behavior.
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Intensive care nursing.
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Nursing -- Decision making.
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Nursing Care -- methods.
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Critical Care -- methods.
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Critical Care -- methods.
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Nursing Care -- methods.
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Author |
Hooper-Kyriakidis, Patricia Lee.
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Stannard, Daphne.
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LC no. |
98012040 |
ISBN |
0721675115 |
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