Intensive Care Nursing

This completely updated and revised new edition is specially written for qualified nurses working in intensive care nursing units. Fully comprehensive and developed to be as accessible as possible, it contains four new chapters and valuable updated and new clinical scenarios to aid learning. "Intensive Care Nursing" is structured in user-friendly sections. Each chapter contains 'fundamental knowledge' needed to understand the chapter, an introduction, 'implications for practice', a chapter summary, completely updated further reading, 'time out' sections for revision and a clinical scenario with questions included. This second edition has been fully developed and reviewed by practitioners and teachers, as well as a senior pharmacist and covers: patient-focused issues of bedside nursing; the technical knowledge necessary to care safely for ICU patients; the more common and specialized disease processes and treatments encountered; and how nurses can use their knowledge and skills to develop their own and others' practice. A support website links to other important sites, gives answers to the clinical scenario questions and provides a forum for discussion of important clinical issues. Written by a practice development nurse with a strong clinical background in intensive care nursing and experience of nursing teaching, "Intensive Care Nursing" is essential reading for nurses and health professionals working with high dependency patients.