Critical Care: Concepts, Role and Practice for the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826138268 ISBN 13: 9780826138262

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2009

Synopsis

An excellent reference for graduate students and practicing nurses, this comprehensive guidebook clearly delineates the role of the nurse practitioner in the intensive care environment. Significant emphasis is given to the complex pathophysiology and appropriate management of common problems encountered in the critical care environment, including trauma, infections, and disease. One chapter is also dedicated to the medical, legal, and ethical aspects of critical care.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award for 2009! Designated a Doody's Core Title!

"""There is little doubt that every ACNP in practice or in training will want a copy of this reference in their lab coat pocket."" "
--Ric Cuming, RN, MSN, EdD (c), CNOR, NEA-BC
Chief Nursing Officer
Jackson Memorial Hospital

"""Long overdue-This comprehensive critical care text will fill the void, especially for nurses advancing from BSN to Advanced Practice. The authors have covered all the basics and produced a text that provides a well-rounded knowledge base for critical care."""
-Jeanne H. Siegel, PhD, ARNP
University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies

This book defines what it means to be a nurse in critical care. With this text, Acute Care Nurse Practitioners (ACNPs) will learn what to expect in the critical care unit, and how to manage various complications with patients in acute and intensive care settings.

Significant emphasis is given to the complex pathophysiology and appropriate management of common problems encountered in the critical care environment, including trauma, infections, and disease. One chapter is also dedicated to the medical, legal, and ethical aspects of critical care. "Critical Care" is thus the must-have reference for graduate students as well as for practicing ACPNs.

Key topics include:

• The role of the ACPN in acute and critical care
• Pulmonary management
• Cardiac concepts in acute care settings
• Managing liver, kidney, and kidney pancreas transplant in the ICU
• Burn management
• Multisystem organ failure
• End-of-life and palliative care
• Family-centered care

Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award for 2009! "

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0826138268
• ISBN 13: 9780826138262
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 582
• Editor: Wyckoff Mary, Houghton Douglas, Lepage Carolyn