High Acuity Nursing - Softcover

Kidd, Pamela Stinson; Wagner, Kathleen Dorman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 083853743X ISBN 13: 9780838537435

Publisher: Appleton and Lange, 1997

Synopsis

The Fourth Edition of High Acuity Nursing delivers essential understanding of complex patients and instructs both students and nurses on how to provide nursing care in varied clinical settings.  Broken down into a series of learner-focused, High Acuity Nursing  takes complex information and presents it in smaller, more accessible chunks that promote easier mastery by readers.  As the modules progress in difficulty, this text addresses the multiple-system problems that nurses face when caring for high acuity patients.  With a focus on concepts and principles that can be applied across practice settings and patient populations, High Acuity Nursing, Fourth Edition is a learner-friendly approach that will help nurses and nursing students master the concepts and confidence necessary to succeed in today’s health care settings.

About this title

About the Author:

PAMELA KIDD is Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Nursing at Arizona State University. She is the former Director of the KY Injury Prevention and Research Center at the University of Kentucky. Pam is also a Family Nurse Practitioner who works in a mobile health service. A working mother of a 6 year old and a 21 year old, she knows firsthand about stress-related illness and injury prevention across the lifespan!

KATHLEEN WAGNER is a Lecturer in the Undergraduate Program in the College of Nursing at the University of Kentucky. Her background is as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in adult critical care, with over 15 years of experience in diverse critical care and high-acuity settings and 20 years as a nurse educator. As a nurse educator, she teaches patho-physiology and high-acuity nursing. She is also a doctoral student in the College of Education, studying Instructional Systems Design.

Synopsis:

This reference contains 26 free-standing learning modules on multiple system problems that can be taught in the classroom or used as independent assignments. Each module contains a pre-test and post-test with answers, learning objectives, glossary, abbreviations, and review questions and answers. The modules progress from simple to complex and include nursing diagnoses. The use of reality-based learning strategies, including case studies, aids students in their preparation for practice in todays health care settings.

About this edition

• Publisher: Appleton and Lange
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 083853743X
• ISBN 13: 9780838537435
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 672