High Acuity Nursing
by Wagner, Kathleen Dorman; Johnson, Karen; Kidd, Pamela StinsonEdition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-01-01
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall
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Summary
The Fourth Edition of High Acuity Nursing delivers essential understanding of complex patients and instructs both students and nurses on how to provide nursing care in varied clinical settings. KEY TOPICS: Broken down into a series of learner-focused, active learning modules, High Acuity Nursing takes complex information and presents it in smaller, more accessible chunks that promote easier mastery by readers. As the modules progress in difficulty, this text addresses the multiple-system problems that nurses face when caring for high acuity patients. With a focus on concepts and principles that can be applied across practice settings and patient populations, High Acuity Nursing, Fourth Edition is a learner-friendly approach that will help nurses and nursing students master the concepts and confidence necessary to succeed in today's health care settings. Nursing Students and Nursing Professionals.
Table of Contents
| Special Topics | |
| Caring for the High Acuity Patient: Patient, Family, and Nursing Consideration | |
| Acute Pain in the High Acuity Patient | |
| Fluid and Electrolyte Balance in the High Acuity Patient | |
| Pulmonary Gas Exchange | |
| Determination and Assessment of Pulmonary Gas Exchange | |
| Alterations in Pulmonary Gas Exchange | |
| Mechanical Ventilation | |
| Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered Pulmonary Gas Exchange | |
| Perfusion | |
| Determination and Assessment of Cardiac Output | |
| Hemodynamic Monitoring | |
| Electrocardiographic Monitoring and Conduction Abnormalities | |
| Alterations in Myocardial Tissue Perfusion | |
| Alterations in Cardiac Output | |
| Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered with Altered Myocardial Tissue Perfusion | |
| Oxygenation | |
| Oxygenation | |
| Shock States | |
| Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome | |
| Nursing Care of Patient with Impaired Oxygenation | |
| Neurologic | |
| Determinants and Assessment of Cerebral Perfusion | |
| Alterations in Cerebral Tissue Perfusion: Acute Brain Attack | |
| Decreased Adaptive Capacity: Acute Head Injury | |
| Sensory Perceptual Disorders | |
| Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered Cerebral Function | |
| Metabolic | |
| Metabolic Responses | |
| Hematologic Dysfunction | |
| Altered Immune Function | |
| Organ Transplantation | |
| Altered Glucose metabolism | |
| Altered Renal Dysfunction | |
| Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered Metabolic Function | |
| Gastrointestinal | |
| Acute Gastrointestinal Dysfunction | |
| Acute Hepatic Dysfunction | |
| Acute Pancreatic Dysfunction | |
| Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered Gastrointestinal Function | |
| Injury | |
| Complex Wound Management | |
| Acute Burn Injury | |
| Trauma | |
| Nursing Care of the Patient with Multiple Injuries | |
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