Review:
'Will continue to be a market leader for registered nurses with 6-12 months ICU experience. Nurses with many years of ICU experience will also find this text an invaluable source of updating and ready reference... New chapters on psychological care, interpreting blood results and SARS reflect developments in practice since 2000. The updated clinical scenarios encourage readers to bring theory and practice together and the addition of website support ... is an excellent move.' - Ruth Endacott, Professor of Critical Care Nursing, La Trobe University, Melbourne and University of Plymouth
‘Comprehensive, clear and clinically focused, this text is becoming a standard text for students undertaking critical care courses and as a reference book on the shelves of critical care units... I would advise all libraries and intensive care units to acquire a copy.’
– L.H. Gelling, ‘Senior Research Officer, Anglia Institute of Health and Social Care, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge’. From review in ‘Journal of Advanced Nursing ‘
I’m impressed by the quality of writing, the accessibility of the chapters and the comprehensiveness of the book. Mr Woodrow has been very diligent in editing content which has become outdated and substituting it with new concepts, innovations and treatments that relate to advancing the art and science of intensive care nursing. I am also pleased that the evidence to support, guide and inform clinical practice has been expanded and strengthened. As before selected readings and case scenarios are helpful in developing knowledge base and in assisting practitioners in the application of theoretical principles into practice. – John Albarran, ‘Principle Lecturer Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of the West of England’
Review:
'Will continue to be a market leader for registered nurses with 6-12 months ICU experience. Nurses with many years of ICU experience will also find this text an invaluable source of updating and ready reference... New chapters on psychological care, interpreting blood results and SARS reflect developments in practice since 2000. The updated clinical scenarios encourage readers to bring theory and practice together and the addition of website support ... is an excellent move.' - ‘Ruth Endacott, Professor of Critical Care Nursing, La Trobe University, Melbourne and University of Plymouth’
‘Comprehensive, clear and clinically focused, this text is becoming a standard text for students undertaking critical care courses and as a reference book on the shelves of critical care units... I would advise all libraries and intensive care units to acquire a copy.’ – ‘Journal of Advanced Nursing ‘
'I’m impressed by the quality of writing, the accessibility of the chapters and the comprehensiveness of the book. Mr Woodrow has been very diligent in editing content which has become outdated and substituting it with new concepts, innovations and treatments that relate to advancing the art and science of intensive care nursing. I am also pleased that the evidence to support, guide and inform clinical practice has been expanded and strengthened. As before selected readings and case scenarios are helpful in developing knowledge base and in assisting practitioners in the application of theoretical principles into practice.' – ‘John Albarran,’ ‘Principle Lecturer Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of the West of England’
Table of contents:
Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Part I CONTEXTS OF CARE
1 Nursing perspectives
2 Humanism
3 Psychological care
Part II FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS
4 Artificial ventilation
5 Airway management
6 Sedation
7 Pain management
8 Pyrexia and temperature control
9 Nutrition amp; bowel care
10 Mouthcare
11 Eyecare
12 Skincare
13 Children in adult ICUs
14 Older patients in ICU
15 Infection control
16 Ethics
Part III MONITORING
17 Respiratory monitoring
18 Gas carriage
19 Acid-base balance and arterial blood gas analysis
20 Haemodynamic monitoring
21 Blood results
22 ECGs amp; dysrhythmias
23 Neurological monitoring
Part IV MICROPATHOLOGIES
24 Cellular pathology
25 Immunity
26 DIC
Part V RESPIRATORY
27 ARDS
28 SARS amp; Legionella
29 Alternative ventilatory modes
Part VI CARDIOVASCULAR
30 Acute coronary syndromes
31 Cardiac surgery
32 Shock
33 Sepsis, SIRS and MODS
34 Fluid management
35 Inotropes amp; vasopressors
36 Vascular surgery
Part VII NEUROLOGICAL
37 Central nervous system injury
38 Peripheral neurological pathologies
Part VIII ABDOMINAL
39 Acute renal failure
40 Haemofiltration
41 Gastrointestinal bleeds
42 Hepatic failure
43 Obstetric emergencies in ICU
44 Transplants
Part IX METABOLIC
45Pancreatitis
46 Diabetic crises
47 Overdoses
Part X PROFESSIONAL
48 Professionalism
49 Managing the ICU
50 Cost of intensive care
Glossary
References
Index
This completely updated and revised new edition of a popular textbook is specially written for qualified nurses working in intensive care nursing units. Fully comprehensive and developed to be as user-friendly as possible it contains four new chapters and valuable updated and new clinical scenarios to aid learning.
The book is structured in user-friendly sections, with each chapter containing 'fundamental knowledge' needed to understand the chapter, a chapter introduction, 'implications for practice', a chapter summary, completely up-to-date further reading, 'time out' sections for consideration and 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 safely care for ICU patients
- the more common and specialised disease processes and treatments encountered
- how nurses can use their knowledge and skills to develop their own and others' practice.
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.
A support website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415373239 links to other important sites, gives answers to the clinical scenario questions and provides a forum for discussion of important clinical issues.
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 with valuable new and updated 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
how nurses can use their knowledge and skills to develop their own and others' practice.
A support website at www.routledge.com\textbooks\0415373239 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 teaching nursing, ‘Intensive Care Nursing’ is essential reading for nurses and health professionals working with high dependency patients.
This is a completely updated and revised new edition of this best-selling textbook, specially written for qualified nurses working in intensive care nursing units. Comprehensive and accessible, it is clearly written and contains valuable clinical scenarios to aid learning.
'Will continue to be a market leader for registered nurses with 6-12 months ICU experience. Nurses with many years of ICU experience will also find this text an invaluable source of updating and ready reference... New chapters on psychological care, interpreting blood results and SARS reflect developments in practice since 2000. The updated clinical scenarios encourage readers to bring theory and practice together and the addition of website support ... is an excellent move.' - Ruth Endacott, Professor of Critical Care Nursing, La Trobe University, Melbourne and University of Plymouth
‘Comprehensive, clear and clinically focused, this text is becoming a standard text for students undertaking critical care courses and as a reference book on the shelves of critical care units... I would advise all libraries and intensive care units to acquire a copy.’
– L.H. Gelling, ‘Senior Research Officer, Anglia Institute of Health and Social Care, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge’. From review in ‘Journal of Advanced Nursing ‘
I’m impressed by the quality of writing, the accessibility of the chapters and the comprehensiveness of the book. Mr Woodrow has been very diligent in editing content which has become outdated and substituting it with new concepts, innovations and treatments that relate to advancing the art and science of intensive care nursing. I am also pleased that the evidence to support, guide and inform clinical practice has been expanded and strengthened. As before selected readings and case scenarios are helpful in developing knowledge base and in assisting practitioners in the application of theoretical principles into practice. – John Albarran, ‘Principle Lecturer Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of the West of England’
Review:
'Will continue to be a market leader for registered nurses with 6-12 months ICU experience. Nurses with many years of ICU experience will also find this text an invaluable source of updating and ready reference... New chapters on psychological care, interpreting blood results and SARS reflect developments in practice since 2000. The updated clinical scenarios encourage readers to bring theory and practice together and the addition of website support ... is an excellent move.' - ‘Ruth Endacott, Professor of Critical Care Nursing, La Trobe University, Melbourne and University of Plymouth’
‘Comprehensive, clear and clinically focused, this text is becoming a standard text for students undertaking critical care courses and as a reference book on the shelves of critical care units... I would advise all libraries and intensive care units to acquire a copy.’ – ‘Journal of Advanced Nursing ‘
'I’m impressed by the quality of writing, the accessibility of the chapters and the comprehensiveness of the book. Mr Woodrow has been very diligent in editing content which has become outdated and substituting it with new concepts, innovations and treatments that relate to advancing the art and science of intensive care nursing. I am also pleased that the evidence to support, guide and inform clinical practice has been expanded and strengthened. As before selected readings and case scenarios are helpful in developing knowledge base and in assisting practitioners in the application of theoretical principles into practice.' – ‘John Albarran,’ ‘Principle Lecturer Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of the West of England’
Table of contents:
Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Part I CONTEXTS OF CARE
1 Nursing perspectives
2 Humanism
3 Psychological care
Part II FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS
4 Artificial ventilation
5 Airway management
6 Sedation
7 Pain management
8 Pyrexia and temperature control
9 Nutrition amp; bowel care
10 Mouthcare
11 Eyecare
12 Skincare
13 Children in adult ICUs
14 Older patients in ICU
15 Infection control
16 Ethics
Part III MONITORING
17 Respiratory monitoring
18 Gas carriage
19 Acid-base balance and arterial blood gas analysis
20 Haemodynamic monitoring
21 Blood results
22 ECGs amp; dysrhythmias
23 Neurological monitoring
Part IV MICROPATHOLOGIES
24 Cellular pathology
25 Immunity
26 DIC
Part V RESPIRATORY
27 ARDS
28 SARS amp; Legionella
29 Alternative ventilatory modes
Part VI CARDIOVASCULAR
30 Acute coronary syndromes
31 Cardiac surgery
32 Shock
33 Sepsis, SIRS and MODS
34 Fluid management
35 Inotropes amp; vasopressors
36 Vascular surgery
Part VII NEUROLOGICAL
37 Central nervous system injury
38 Peripheral neurological pathologies
Part VIII ABDOMINAL
39 Acute renal failure
40 Haemofiltration
41 Gastrointestinal bleeds
42 Hepatic failure
43 Obstetric emergencies in ICU
44 Transplants
Part IX METABOLIC
45Pancreatitis
46 Diabetic crises
47 Overdoses
Part X PROFESSIONAL
48 Professionalism
49 Managing the ICU
50 Cost of intensive care
Glossary
References
Index
This completely updated and revised new edition of a popular textbook is specially written for qualified nurses working in intensive care nursing units. Fully comprehensive and developed to be as user-friendly as possible it contains four new chapters and valuable updated and new clinical scenarios to aid learning.
The book is structured in user-friendly sections, with each chapter containing 'fundamental knowledge' needed to understand the chapter, a chapter introduction, 'implications for practice', a chapter summary, completely up-to-date further reading, 'time out' sections for consideration and 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 safely care for ICU patients
- the more common and specialised disease processes and treatments encountered
- how nurses can use their knowledge and skills to develop their own and others' practice.
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.
A support website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415373239 links to other important sites, gives answers to the clinical scenario questions and provides a forum for discussion of important clinical issues.
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 with valuable new and updated 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
how nurses can use their knowledge and skills to develop their own and others' practice.
A support website at www.routledge.com\textbooks\0415373239 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 teaching nursing, ‘Intensive Care Nursing’ is essential reading for nurses and health professionals working with high dependency patients.
This is a completely updated and revised new edition of this best-selling textbook, specially written for qualified nurses working in intensive care nursing units. Comprehensive and accessible, it is clearly written and contains valuable clinical scenarios to aid learning.