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  title info:
    title: Essentials of critical care nursing
    sub title: a holistic approach
  name:
    name part: Morton, Patricia Gonce
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Fontaine, Dorrie K.
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    place:
      place term: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
    date issued: c2013
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvi, 509 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
  abstract: Essentials of Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach focuses on the most common disorders and technologies encountered by a critical care nurse today. It includes enough depth to enhance the reader's full understanding of important topics and fully prepares the student for practice. The clear, concise writing style assists students in understanding the pathophysiological basis for illness and the strategies the critical care nurse uses in assessing and managing patients. This text contains information about important psychosocial concepts, legal and ethical issues, history and physical examinations, key laboratory and diagnostic tests, as well as key nursing interventions used in critical care. Each chapter contains learning objectives to help focus the reader and a case study with critical thinking study questions that guide the student's knowledge to practical application.Specially designed features appear throughout the text to assist students in providing competent and compassionate care to critically ill patients and their families: Drug Therapy tables summarize information related to the administration and monitoring of drug therapy such as adverse effects, contraindications to use, measures that should be taken before administering the drug, as well as how to monitor a patient receiving the medication; Diagnostic Tests tables present significant diagnostic test information including the purpose and method of testing, normal values, abnormal values, and nursing implications; and, The Older Patient notes, appearing within the flow of the text, highlight information related to assessing and caring for older patients in the critical care setting.It includes: Red Flag notes, also appearing throughout the text, highlight information that will help a critical care nurse recognize a serious problem or life-threatening change in a patient's condition; Collaborative Care Guides that contain outcomes and interventions and describe how the health care team works toge…
  table of contents: 1. The concept of holism applied to critical care nursing practice -- 2. Essential interventions in critical care -- 3. Cardiovascular system -- 4. Respiratory system -- 5. Renal system -- 6. Nervous system -- 7. Gastrointestinal system -- 8. Endocrine system -- 9. Hematological and immune systems -- 10. Integumentary system -- 11. Multisystem dysfunction
  note: Patricia Gonce Morton, Dorrie K. Fontaine
  note: Related work: Critical care nursing / [edited by] Patricia Gonce Morton, Dorrie K. Fontaine. 9th ed. c2009
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index
  subject:
    topic: Critical Care
  subject:
    topic: Holistic Nursing
    topic: methods
  classification: RT120.I5 M67 2013
  classification: WY 154 .M827 2013
  identifier: 1609136934 (paperback : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781609136932 (paperback : alk. paper)
  record info:
    record creation date: 130605
    record change date: 20131208093000.0
    record identifier: 0000084030