Medical Reference, Emergency & Critical Care, Critical & Intensive Care Nursing, Nursing Reference
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Overview
For each alphabetically organized condition, nurses learn pathophysiology, clinical assessment, the diagnostic tests likely to be ordered, treatment and care (including medical and nursing interventions), prognosis, and discharge planning. Pathophysiology drug charts alert readers to significant drugs and protocols used to treat major body system disorders. Readers will find discussions of ethical problems, current trends, the role of new technology, a helpful index, and more. Appendices offer crucial data on common emergency drugs and laboratory values, therapeutic and toxic drug levels, normal hemodynamic variables, and commonly encountered nursing diagnoses.The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Judith A. Jennrich, RN, PhD, CCRN, CS(Loyola University Niehoff School of Nursing)Description: This is a comprehensive, easy-to-use critical care reference for nurses working with high acuity patients. Nurses working in the home health setting, general medical surgical units, or intensive care units will be well served.
Purpose: The purpose is to help bedside nurses with information of 50 diagnoses commonly encountered in critically ill patients. The book provides detailed coverage of pathophysiology, assessment findings, diagnosis, treatment, and care and discharge planning guidelines.
Audience: The author has targeted this resource for the bedside nurse who needs an easy to understand and use reference for patient care.
Features: There are many tables, charts, and illustrations throughout the book that help consolidate and synthesize the information in the text. The diagnoses are arranged alphabetically and follow a set format for quick access to information. The index is easy to use. References are listed at the end of the book for all chapters.
Assessment: This is a useful resource book for staff. nurses working with critically ill patients. It is of compact size, succinct, well organized, and clearly written by well-credentialed nursing educators. The 50 disease processes discussed are appropriate regardless of the nurse's clinical setting.
Judith A. Jennrich
This is a comprehensive, easy-to-use critical care reference for nurses working with high acuity patients. Nurses working in the home health setting, general medical surgical units, or intensive care units will be well served. The purpose is to help bedside nurses with information of 50 diagnoses commonly encountered in critically ill patients. The book provides detailed coverage of pathophysiology, assessment findings, diagnosis, treatment, and care and discharge planning guidelines. The author has targeted this resource for the bedside nurse who needs an easy to understand and use reference for patient care. There are many tables, charts, and illustrations throughout the book that help consolidate and synthesize the information in the text. The diagnoses are arranged alphabetically and follow a set format for quick access to information. The index is easy to use. References are listed at the end of the book for all chapters. This is a useful resource book for staff. nurses working with critically ill patients. It is of compact size, succinct, well organized, and clearly written by well-credentialed nursing educators. The 50 disease processes discussed are appropriate regardless of the nurse's clinical setting.3 Stars from Doody
Book Details
Published
January 31, 1996
Publisher
Springhouse, Pa. : Springhouse Corp., c1996.
Pages
726
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780874347746