Dina Hewett

Fast Facts for the Critical Care Nurse, Second Edition (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This newly updated, quick-access guide for critical care nurses covers the most common admitting diagnoses and reviews their causes, signs and symptoms, and interventions. Critical care nursing requires astute assessment, adept communication, and the ability to multitask, as well as a high degree of adaptability. In the ICU, patient status and plan of care change constantly, presenting multifaceted problems for nurses and healthcare providers. This authoritative resource, with bulleted, bite-sized content, provides information to the busy ICU nurse in a heartbeat.

Fast Facts for the Critical Care Nurse, Second Edition, has been updated with the most current evidence-based guidelines and standards. Now organized by body system, this reference presents the latest treatment modalities and provides quick access to lab values and hemodynamic parameters. Part I introduces the foundations of critical care. Part II progresses by body system to cover common procedures and interventions. Part III covers patient- and family-centered care, discussing palliative directives and organ donation.

New to the Second Edition:
• Seven completely new chapters
• Chapter reorganization by body system
• Updated to include newest treatment modalities
• Speedy access to appendices with common lab values, hemodynamic parameters, IV medications, and EKG rhythm examples

Key Features:
• Provides quick access to essential information needed on a daily basis
• Includes Fast Facts boxes to help guide the reader
• Authored by a respected nurse leader, educator, and AACN/Wharton Executive Leadership Fellow

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826177216
• Artikelnr.: 60201615

Autorenporträt

Dina McDade Hewett, Ph.D., RN, MSN, JM, CCRN (Alumnus), received her Bachelor of Science in nursing from Brenau University in 1988, her Master of Science in nursing from Georgia Southern in 1995, and her Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Georgia in 1999. She recently completed a JM in law from Liberty University. She has worked as a cardiothoracic critical care nurse for over 15 years and in hospital administration and higher education for 20 years.

Dr. Hewett is currently the Regional Vice President - Campus Operations at Chamberlain University.