AACN Advanced Critical Care Nursing (AACN'S CLINICAL REFERENCE FOR CLINICAL CARE NURSING (MOSBY)) | 
 enlarge | Author: Aacn
Creator: Karen K. Carlson
Publisher: Saunders
Category: Book
List Price: $99.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 153773
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1632
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.2
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.9 x 1.9
ISBN: 1416032193
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.028
EAN: 9781416032199
ASIN: 1416032193
Publication Date: April 24, 2008
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Product Description
From AACN experts comes a resource dedicated to helping you oversee or care for critical care patients in any practice setting. This comprehensive critical care nursing textbook addresses serious and potentially life-threatening patient conditions with a foundation rooted in the critical thinking process: the comprehension, analysis, synthesis, and application of knowledge.
- Endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the largest specialty nursing organization in the United States, for the most authoritative coverage available.
- Thorough discussions of each body system emphasize advanced concepts, presenting physiology in an application format that examines the clinical implications of physiological science.
- Coverage of assessment focuses on interpreting abnormal findings and linking those findings to diagnosis and intervention.
- Appropriate interventions are discussed from an interdisciplinary, evidence-based perspective.
- Hundreds of new, full-color illustrations and design clarify important concepts and improve the book's usability.
- Complex, unfolding case studies are presented in all disease chapters, accompanied by review questions with a comprehensive answer key.
- Multidisciplinary Plans of Care provide at-a-glance information for common ICU conditions.
- Nutrition boxes appear in each relevant chapter, offering guidelines for patient needs with specific illnesses.
- Research-Based Practice Guidelines boxes and Promoting Evidence-Based Practice features appear throughout the text whenever applicable to present the latest research-supported nursing assessment and intervention practices.
- Drug boxes include common classifications of critical care drugs for specific disorders, including drug, actions, dosage, and special considerations.
- Applying the Technology features help you apply the latest technology to patient care.
- NIC Interventions boxes list NIC intervention labels appropriate for the conditions discussed in a chapter.
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AACN Advanced Critical Care Nursing Book Review June 10, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have over 34 years of critical care nursing experience including the roles of staff nurses, clinical nurse specialist, and nurse faculty. For many years, I have wanted a critical care nursing textbook that contained more advanced content for myself and to recommend for my graduate nursing students. The content of this textbook is more advanced than any other available critical care nursing textbook. In addition, the formatting of this textbook is very well done. There are many figures, flow charts and diagnostic algorithms to explain anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, medical and nursing care (plans of care). The authors were able to successfully apply anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology to critical care clinical situations and patients. In addition, there are chapters in this book dedicated to global issues in critical care such as thermoregulation, symptom management, families in critical care, glycemic control, blood conservation and replacement, caring for immediate post-operative patients, critically ill pediatric, pregnant, elderly, and neuropsychiatric patient, bariatric patient, chemical dependent, and end-of-life care. The drug information is also geared toward nurses and not pharmacists. Lastly, but not least, the inclusion of evidence based-practice is noted in every chapter of the book that references medical and nursing care and practice. If you want a book on advanced critical care nursing that is up-to-date and a great reference than this is the book for you. I would highly recommend it.
Must have ICU reference book June 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been out of ICU nursing for the past 1 1/2 years and this book is great at getting me up to speed. It's current and explains everything very well.
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