Intensive Care Nursing

A Framework for Practice

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Philip Woodrow, Barry Hill, UK) Woodrow, Philip (East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust, UK) Hill, Barry (Northumbria University

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The fifth edition of this essential text provides a comprehensive overview of working in intensive care. Written for critical care nurses practising at Level 3, it is fully updated to ensure the evidence base is up to date and the content reflects contemporary best practice.Intensive Care Nursing covers patient-focused issues of bedside nursing; the technical knowledge necessary to care safely for ICU patients; the more common and specialised disease processes and treatments encountered; and how nurses can use their knowledge and skills to develop their own and others' practice. This feature includes all-new chapters on maternal critical care and principles of pharmacology for intensive care nursing. The chapters include numerous pedagogical features to aid readers in transferring their learning, such as boxes highlighting implications for practice, further reading sections, and clinical scenarios with questions.Intensive Care Nursing is essential reading for student and qualified nurses and allied health professionals working with critically ill patients, particularly those undertaking post-registration training in the area.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-01-20
Mått174 x 246 x 34 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor602
Upplaga5
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032503202

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The late Philip Woodrow was a practice development nurse in critical care at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust, UK. He authored the first four editions of Intensive Care Nursing, as well as Nursing Acutely Ill Adults and High Dependency Nursing Care.Barry Hill is a professor of acute and critical care nursing and head of the School for Nursing and Midwifery at Buckinghamshire New University, UK. Internationally recognised in education, he has authored 9 books and over 60 book chapters and published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Currently, Barry is the consultant editor for the International Journal of Advancing Practice (IJAP) and the clinical editor for the British Journal of Nursing (BJN).

Part 1: Contexts of Care 1. Nursing Perspectives 2. Humanism 3. Psychological Care Part 2: Fundamental 4. Artificial Ventilation 5. Airway Management 6. Sedation 7. Acute Pain Management 8. Thermoregulation 9. Nutrition and Bowel Care 10. Mouthcare 11. Eyecare 12. Tissue Viability 13. Children in Adult ICUs 14. Maternal Intensive and Critical Care 15. Older Patients in ICU 16. Infection Prevention and Control 17. Pandemic Planning Part 3: Monitoring 18. Respiratory Monitoring 19. Gas Carriage 20. Blood Gas Interpretation 21. Haemodynamic Monitoring 22. Blood Results 23. ECGs and Dysrhythmias 24. Neurological Monitoring Part 4: Micropathologies 25. Cellular Pathology 26. Immunity and Immunodeficiency 27. Haemostasis Part 5: Respiratory 28. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) 29. Alternative Ventilation Part 6: Cardiovascular 30. Acute Coronary Syndromes 31. Coronary Surgery and Interventions 32. Shock 33. Sepsis 34. Fluid Management 35. Inotropes and Vasopressors 36. Vascular Surgery Part 7: Neurological 37. Central Nervous System Injury 38. Peripheral Neurological Pathologies Part 8: Abdominal 39. Acute Kidney Injury 40. Haemofiltration 41. Gastrointestinal Bleeds 42. Liver Failure 43. Obstetric Admissions to ICU 44. Organ Donation Part 9: Metabolic 45. Severe Acute Pancreatitis 46. Diabetic Crises 47. Self-poisoning Part 10: Professional 48. Transferring Critically Ill Patients 49. Professional Perspectives 50. Managing the ICU 51. Costs of Intensive Care 52. Applied Pharmacology in Intensive Care