Critical Care Nursing. Diagnosis and Management

Publisher: Elsevier , ed.7th 2014, ISBN:978-0-323-09178-7, 1232p. <br/> <br/>A dominant theme of the book is nursing diagnosis<br/>and management, reflecting the strength of critical care<br/>nursing practice. Wherever possible, evidence-based critical<br/>care practice is incorporated into nursing interventions. To<br/>foster critical thinking and decision making, a boxed “menu” of<br/>nursing diagnoses complete with specific etiologic or related<br/>factors accompanies each medical disorder and major medical<br/>treatment discussion where appropriate nursing management is detailed. To facilitate<br/>student learning, the nursing management plans of care incorporate<br/>nursing diagnosis definition, etiologic or related factors,<br/>clinical manifestations, and interventions with rationale.<br/>The book provides detailed information on intensive care in the following areas:<br/>foundations of critical care nursing, cardiovascular alterations, pulmonary alterations,<br/>neurologic alterations, kidney alterations, gastrointestinal alterations, multisystem<br/>alterations, endocrine alterations, special populations.