Concise yet thorough guidance on how to safely and competently care for adult progressive care patients and their families
Endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and written by top clinical experts in acute and progressive care nursing, this textbook covers all the must-know details on the care of adult progressive care 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. The AACN Essentials of Progressive Care Nursing includes essential information to successfully prepare for PCCN certification in progressive care and much more! The AACN Essentials of Progressive Care Nursing is divided into four sections:
THE ESSENTIALS -- presents information that clinicians must understand to provide safe, competent nursing care to the majority of progressive care patients, regardless of their underlying medical diagnoses
PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS -- covers pathologic conditions and management strategies commonly encountered among adult, progressive care patients
ADVANCED CONCEPTS IN CARING FOR THE PROGRESSIVE CARE PATIENT -- presents advanced progressive care concepts or pathologic conditions that are less common or more specialized than expected in adult progressive care
KEY REFERENCE INFORMATION -- features normal laboratory and diagnostic values; pharmacology tables; algorithms for advanced cardiac life support; and summary tables of cardiac rhythms, ECG characteristics, and treatment guides
Suzanne M. Burns, MSN, RRT, ACNP, CCRN, FAAN, FCCM, FAANP (Charlottesville, VA) Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing, University of Virginia; Consultant, Critical and Progressive Care and Clinical Nursing Research.
Keywords: AACN ESSENTIALS OF PROGRESSIVE CARE NURSING, ASSESSMENT OF CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS AND FAMILIES, PLANNING CARE FOR CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS AND FAMILIES, INTERPRETATION AND MANAGEMENT OF BASIC CARDIAC RHYTHMS, HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING, AIRWAY AND VENTILATORY, PAIN, SEDATION, AND NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE MANAGEMENT, PHARMACOLOGY, ETHICAL AND LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM, RESPIRATORY SYSTEM, MULTISYSTEM PROBLEMS, NEUROLOGIC SYSTEM, HEMATOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY SYSTEMS, GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM, RENAL SYSTEM BY CAROL HINKLE, ENDOCRINE SYSTEM, TRAUMA BY CAROL A. RAUEN AND JAMIE B. SINKS, ADVANCED ECG, ADVANCED CARDIOVASCULAR CONCEPTS, ADVANCED NEUROLOGIC CONCEPTS, NORMAL VALUE TABLES, PHARMACOLOGY TABLES BY ERNEST ALEXANDER, ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT ALGORITHMS, GUIDELINES FOR THE TRANSFER OF CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS, HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE, AND CARDIAC RHYTHMS, ECG CHARACTERISTICS AND TREATMENT GUIDE