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Introduction to Critical Care Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 7th Edition

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By Mary Lou Sole, PhD, RN, CCNS, CNL, FAAN, FCCM, Deborah Goldenberg Klein, MSN, RN, APRN-BC, CCRN, FAHA, FAAN and Marthe J. Moseley, PhD, RN, CCRN-K, CCNS, VHA-CM
ISBN :
9780323375498
Publication Date :
03-10-2016
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New to this edition
  • NEW! UPDATED content is included throughout, especially in topics such as nutrition, feeding tube connectors, the new PAD guidelines for pain management, Rapid Response Teams, sepsis guidelines, and valvular disorders and TAVR.
  • NEW! Critical Reasoning Activities are interspersed throughout the text, to better promote development of clinical nursing judgment.
  • NEW! Universal Collaborative Care Plan for the Critically Ill Patient addresses important aspects of collaborative/interprofessional care that apply to virtually all critically ill patients. 
  • NEW! Increased coverage of infection control addresses the QSEN safety competency and helps provide patient protection against the growing threat of drug-resistant infections.
  • NEW! Coverage of cardiac assistive devices includes ECMO and other small, portable, bedside cardiac assistive devices.
  • NEW! Refocused hemodynamic monitoring content emphasizes the noninvasive methods of hemodynamic monitoring that are becoming more prominent.
  • NEW! Increased coverage of palliative care supports the book's strong focus on end-of-life care.
  • Revised Organ Donation chapter is refocused to help nurses provide holistic care to families facing difficult end-of-life choices regarding organ donation, rather than on the details of transplantation procedures. 
  • NEW Patient Problems focus shifts the book’s emphasis from nursing diagnoses to the interprofessional care of patient problems.

Author Information
By Mary Lou Sole, PhD, RN, CCNS, CNL, FAAN, FCCM, Dean and Professor, Orlando Health Endowed Chair in Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Central Florida; Nurse Scientist, Orlando Health, Orlando, Florida; Deborah Goldenberg Klein, MSN, RN, APRN-BC, CCRN, FAHA, FAAN, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Coronary ICU, Heart Failure ICU, and Cardiac Short Stay/PACU/CARU, Cleveland Clinic; Clinical Preceptor, Francis Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Adjunct Faculty, College of Nursing, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio and Marthe J. Moseley, PhD, RN, CCRN-K, CCNS, VHA-CM, Director, Inpatient Evaluation Center (IPEC), Office of Reporting, Analytics, Performance, Improvement and Deployment (RAPID), Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC