Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient, 3rd Edition (Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses) - Softcover

Jevon, Philip; Ewens, Beverley; Singh Pooni, Jagtar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444337475 ISBN 13: 9781444337471

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 2012

Synopsis

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient is an invaluable, accessible guide to caring for critically ill patients on the general ward. Now fully updated and improved throughout, this well-established and handy reference guide text assumes no prior knowledge and equips students and newly-qualified staff with the clinical skills and knowledge they need to confidently monitor patients at risk, identify key priorities, and provide prompt and effective care. This new edition includes the following five new chapters: * Monitoring the critically ill child * Monitoring the critically ill pregnant patient * Monitoring the patient with infection and related systemic inflammatory response * Monitoring a patient receiving a blood transfusion * Monitoring pain

About this title

Review:

"This would be a helpful guide for nurses working in any acute setting; acute wards, coronary care, critical care outreach or the emergency department. It is also a good introductory tool for critical care nurses explaining the principles of assessment, different types of invasive monitoring and waveforms and so on." (Nursing Times, 17 October 2012)

From the Back Cover:

Critical care is becoming increasingly more common outside the ITU environment. Nurses on general wards need to know the essentials of how to monitor critically ill patients closely and safely. This book is part of a series designed to provide handy, practical guidance for use whilst on the job. Bullet points, diagrams and tables are used to distil the vital facts making this book an invaluable aide memoire for nurses working on acute wards, in A&E, theatres, critical care, coronary care and high dependency units. Students too will find the simple, clear layout very conducive to learning.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1444337475
• ISBN 13: 9781444337471
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 372