Fast facts for the critical care nurse : critical care nursing in a nutshell

Summary: This pocket-sized reference for new and seasoned intensive care unit (ICU) nurses contains critical knowledge presented in the clear, precise, "Fact Facts" format. It provides quick access to a broad array of guidelines, procedures, and equipment used by ICU nurses daily as well as on a less frequent basis.

Record details

ISBN: 9780826107282
ISBN: 9780826107281
ISBN: 0826107281
ISBN: 082610729X
ISBN: 978082610729X (eISBN)
ISBN: 9780826107299
Physical Description: print
xi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Publisher: New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-258) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foundations of critical care -- Critical care nursing overview -- Importance of documentation -- Advance directives and organ donation -- Withdrawal of treatment and palliative care -- Critical care basics -- Basic patient care in the critical care setting -- Patient nutrition -- Sterile field, pre-procedural patient preparation, and conscious sedation -- Isolation precautions and personal protective equipment -- Everything IV -- Critical care equipment competencies -- Respiratory station -- Arterial blood gases, arterial lines, and pulmonary artery catheters -- Discussing dialysis and continuous renal replacement therapy -- Cardiac specialty equipment -- Specialty critical care unit -- Surgical and orthopedic recovery guidelines -- Neuro ICU -- General cardiac care and post-coronary-artery-bypass-graft patients -- Transplant patients -- Burn unit basics.