Critical Care Nursing Learning from Practice [Paperback]

Critical Care Nursing: Learning from Practice takes a unique approach to critical care. Based around case scenarios that have the patient as the central focus, each chapter is constructed around an example of a critically ill patient with specific care needs. The chapters then go on to critically explore the knowledge and skills required to deliver expert care. This book looks at a range of critical care scenarios, including:

• The patient with acute lung injury
• The patient with fever
• The patient with an acute kidney injury
• The patient with long term needs
• The patient with increased intra-abdominal pressure
• The Patient following cardiac surgery

  Each chapter develops knowledge of the related physiology/pathophysiology, appropriate nursing interventions that are research/evidence based, technical skills, data interpretation and critical appraisal skills, enabling the reader to apply fundamental knowledge to more complex patient problems.  Critical Care Nursing: Learning from Practice is an essential resource for practitioners faced with complex and challenging patient cases.

Contributor list.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1 The patient with acute lung injury (ALI) (Julie Hamilton).

2 The patient requiring complex weaning from mechanical ventilation (Dr. Cheryl Crocker).

3 The patient with fever (Kate Brown).

4 The patient with severe sepsis (Suzanne Bench).

5 The patient following cardiac surgery (Dr. Maureen Coombs).

6 The patient with severelñ