The best review available for Progressive Care certification!
CD-ROM with 2 comprehensive practice exams
Progressive Care Nursing Certification is a complete step-by-step guide that thoroughly covers everything you need to know to pass the examination administered by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN).
Presented in short, easy-to-read chapters, the book includes subject-specific practice exams, allowing you to target your study and quickly identify weak areas. In addition, the handy “Editor’s Note” highlights what’s important and gives you an idea of the number of questions you should expect on a given topic.
Everything you need to pass the Progressive Care certification exam:
A companion CD-ROM containing two complete practice exams
A practice exam at the end of each part of the book (10 in all)
More than 500 Q&A in the book and on the CD-ROM
Content that includes every topic you will see on the exam: Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, Endocrine, Immunology and Hematology, Gastroenterology, Renal, Multi-organ Problems, Synergy, Behavior
Thomas S. Ahrens, PhD, RN, CCNS, FAAN Research Scientist Barnes-Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO Donna Prentice, MSN(R), RN, ACNS-BC, CCRN Clinical Nurse Specialist Barnes-Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO Ruth M. Kleinpell, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAANP, FCCM Director, Center for Clinical Research and Scholarship Rush University Medical Center Professor, Rush University College of Nursing Nurse Practitioner, Mercy Hospital & Medical Center Chicago, IL
Keywords: PROGRESSIVE CARE NURSING CERTIFICATION: PREPARATION, REVIEW, AND PRACTICE EXAMS, CARDIOVASCULAR, CARDIOVASCULAR ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS, THE NORMAL ECG, THE 12-LEAD ECG, HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING, ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME (ANGINA PECTORIS AND MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION), CONDUCTION BLOCKS, CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, PULMONARY EDEMA, AND HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS, CARDIOGENIC SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC (HYPOVOLEMIC) SHOCK, INTERPRETING DYSRHYTHMIAS, CARDIOMYOPATHIES AND PERICARDITIS, TREATMENT OF CARDIAC, VALVULAR, AND VASCULAR INSUFFICIENCY, AND TRAUMA, CARDIOVASCULAR PRACTICE EXAM, PULMONARY, PULMONARY ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF PULMONARY DISORDERS, ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF VENTILATORY SUPPORT, ACUTE RESPIRATORY DYSFUNCTION, ACUTE PULMONARY EMBOLISM AND ASPIRATION, THORACIC TRAUMA AND AIR LEAK SYNDROMES, PULMONARY PRACTICE EXAM, ENDOCRINE, INTRODUCTION TO THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM, ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND DYSFUNCTION OF THE PITUITARY GLAND, ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND DYSFUNCTION OF THE THYROID AND PARATHYROID GLANDS, ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND DYSFUNCTION OF THE PANCREAS, ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND DYSFUNCTION OF THE ADRENAL GLANDS, ENDOCRINE PRACTICE EXAM, IMMUNOLOGY AND HEMATOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY OF THE IMMUNOLOGIC AND HEMATOLOGIC SYSTEMS, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF IMMUNOLOGIC AND HEMATOLOGIC PROBLEMS, HEMATOLOGIC AND IMMUNOLOGIC FAILURE AND ITS EFFECTS ON OTHER ORGAN SYSTEMS, ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION 29. LIFE-THREATENING COAGULOPATHIES, IMMUNOLOGY AND HEMATOLOGY PRACTICE EXAM, NEUROLOGY, ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE, ACUTE HEAD INJURIES AND CRANIOTOMIES, STROKE AND INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS, THE VERTEBRAE AND SPINAL CORD, ENCEPHALOPATHIES, COMA, AND BRAIN HERNIATION, MENINGITIS, GUILLAIN–, BARRÉ, AND MYASTHENIA GRAVIS, SEIZURES AND STATUS EPILEPTICUS NEUROLOGY PRACTICE EXAM, GASTROENTEROLOGY, ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM, GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE AND ESOPHAGEAL VARICES, HEPATITIS, CIRRHOSIS, HEPATIC FAILURE, AND ACUTE PANCREATITIS, INTESTINAL INFARCTION, OBSTRUCTION, PERFORATION, AND TRAUMA, MANAGEMENT OF THE PATIENT WITH A GASTROINTESTINAL DISTURBANCE, GASTROENTEROLOGY PRACTICE EXAM, RENAL, ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE RENAL SYSTEM, RENAL REGULATION OF ELECTROLYTES, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ACUTE RENAL FAILURE, RENAL TRAUMA, RENAL PRACTICE EXAM, MULTIORGAN PROBLEMS, SEPSIS AND MULTIORGAN SYNDROME, TOXIC EMERGENCIES, AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION, BURNS, MULTISYSTEM ORGAN DYSFUNCTION PRACTICE EXAM, SYNERGY, PROFESSIONALISM AND SYNERGY MODEL SYNERGY PRACTICE EXAM