Critical Care Nursing : A Holistic Approach - Morton, Patricia Gonce, 1952-; Fontaine, Dorrie K. (Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2013)
Critical Care Nursing Practice : Promoting Excellence Through Caring, Collaboration, and Evidence -- The Patient's Experience with Critical Illness -- The Family's Experience with Critical Illness -- Patient and Family Education in Critical Care -- Relieving Pain and Providing Comfort -- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues in Critical Care -- Ethical Issues in Critical Care Nursing -- Legal Issues in Critical Care Nursing -- Building a Professional Practice Model for Excellence in Critical Care Nursing -- The Critically Ill Pediatric Patient -- The Critically Ill Pregnant Woman -- The Critically Ill Older Patient -- The Postanesthesia Patient -- Rapid Response Teams and Transport of the Critically Ill Patient -- Disaster Management : Implications for the Critical Care Nurse -- Anatomy and Physiology of the Cardiovasular System -- Patient Assessment: Cardiovascular System -- Patient Management: Cardiovascular System -- Common Cardiovascular Disorders -- Heart Failure -- Acute Myocardial Infarction -- Cardiac Surgery -- Anatomy and Physiology of the Respiratory System -- Patient Assessment: Respiratory System -- Patient Management: Respiratory System -- Common Respiratory Disorders -- Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome -- Anatomy and Physiology of the Renal System -- Patient Assessment: Renal System -- Patient Management: Renal System -- Renal Failure -- Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System -- Patient Assessment: Nervous System -- Patient Management: Nervous System -- Common Neurosurgical and Neurological Disorders -- Traumatic Brain Injury -- Spinal Cord Injury -- Anatomy and Physiology of the Gastrointestinal System -- Patient Assessment: Gastrointestinal System -- Patient Management: Gastrointestinal System -- Common Gastrointestinal Disorders -- Anatomy and Physiology of the Endocrine System -- Patient Assessment: Endocrine System -- Common Endocrine Disorders -- Anatomy and Physiology of the Hematological and Immune Systems -- Patient Assessment: Hematological and Immune Systems -- Organ and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation -- Common Immunological Disorders -- Common Hematological Disorders -- Anatomy and Physiology of the Integumentary System -- Patient Assessment: Integumentary System -- Patient Management: Integumentary System -- Burns and Common Integumentary Disorders -- Shock, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome -- Trauma -- Drug Overdose and Poisoning.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Intensive care nursing; Holistic nursing; Critical Care; Holistic Nursing