The authoritative, evidence-based coverage you need to safely and competently care for adult, critically ill patients and their families – or prepare for the critical care nursing certification exam
Endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and written by top clinical experts in acute care nursing, this textbook thoroughly covers all the need-to-know details on the care of adult, critically ill patients and their families. Supported by helpful tables and algorithms, the book’s practical, building-block organization starts with the basics before proceeding to more complex concepts, paralleling the blueprint for the critical care nursing CCRN certification examination.
AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing is divided into four logical sections, which, taken as a whole, will give you complete understanding of this challenging area of nursing practice:
The Essentials – provides fundamental information that new clinicians must understand to provide safe, competent nursing care to all critically ill patients, regardless of their underlying medical diagnosis.
Pathological Conditions – covers pathologic conditions and management strategies commonly encountered in all adult critical care units.
Advanced Concepts in Caring for the Critically Ill Patient – presents advanced critical care concepts or pathologic conditions that are less common or more specialized than those generally found in adult critical care units.
Key Reference Information – includes reference information that you will find helpful in a clinical environment, such as normal laboratory and diagnostic values, algorithms for advanced cardiac life support, and summary tables of critical care drugs and cardiac rhythms
Each chapter begins with Knowledge Competencies that can be used to gauge your progress. This edition is compatible with ECCO (Essentials of Critical Care Orientation), the online program offered by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
Sales Handle Covering basic to advanced critical care concepts, this easy-to-use, evidence-based resource provides essential foundation for the nursing care of patients. It is an ideal tool for nurses going through orientation on the hospital floor, and this edition will be linked to AACN's Essentials of Critical Care Orientation (ECCO), which is used in more than 700 hospitals. This title will only apply to material pertinent to Progressive Care nurses.
About the Book This practical book is the best resource to meet the needs of the entry-level, critical care nurse. Completely updated and in compliance with nursing standards, this book is also complete the latest Evidence-Based Practice standards. For use by the individual nurse, or as a resource on the hospital floor, this guide progresses from basic content that all Critical Care nurses will need to know, to more specific specialties.
Features
Linked to AACN's online Essentials of Critical Care Orientation, which is used in 700 hospitals.
Provides excellent foundation for PCRN certification exam.
Covers all the essential info, plus advanced concepts.
Evidence-based treatment guides based on AACN Protocols for Practice and national guidelines
Cardiac rhythms, ECG characteristics, sample rhythm strips, and treatment guides
Provides the practical knowledge necessary for the Critical Care nurse to succeed, with up-to-date content and all the Evidence-Based practice guidelines to support standards of care.
Provides hospitals with quality critical care orientation content, to be used alone, or in conjunction with AACN's
Essentials of Critical Care Orientation (ECCO).
Market/Audience Primary Market: 1.6 million nurses working in an acute care environment Secondary Market: 80,000 nursing students taking a course in Critical Care
Author Profile Marianne Chulay, RN, DNSc, FAAN (Chapel Hill, NC) is a critical care nursing/clinical research consultant in Chapel Hill, NC.
Suzanne Burns, RN, MSN, RRT, ACNP, CCRN, FAAN, FCCM (Charlottesville, VA) is a Professor of Nursing, anAdvanced Practice Nurse 2 in the MICU, and the Director of the Professional Nursing Staff Organization's Clinical Research Program at the University of Virginia Health Systems in Charlottesville Virginia. She is known nationally for her work in the areas of weaning, mechanical ventilation and clinical research. Suzi speaks and publishes widely on these and many other topics and is the inventor of the Burns Wean Assessment Program (BWAP). She has received numerous awards such as the American Association of Critical Care Nurses(AACN) Distinguished Researcher Award and Mentoring Award, the University of Virginia (UVA) Outstanding Contributor Award, UVA School of Nursing`s Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award and "Leadership Award", and the Sigma Theta Tau Distinguished Nurse Award. Suzi is also a recent past member of the AACN's Board of Directors.
