Intensive Care Nursing: A Framework for Practice

by Philip Woodrow (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.23

  Intensive care is a rapidly developing areas of healthcare. This introductory textbook is written specifically for qualified nurses who are working in intensive care units and also for those undertaking post-registration courses in the speciality.

  It is structured in four parts: Fundamentals of Care explores patient-focused issues of bedside nursing; Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient describes the technical knowledge necessary to care safely for ICU patients; Pathophysiology and Treatments illustrates the more common and specialized disease processes and treatments encountered; and Advanced Nursing Practice looks at how nurses can use their knowledge and skills to develop their own and others' practice.

  This accessible text: covers all the key areas of knowledge needed; includes fundamental knowledge sections, introductions, chapter summaries, a glossary of key terms, extensive and up-to-date references and a comprehensive index; and is clearly written by an experienced university lecturer with a strong clinical background of working in intensive care nursing.

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $3.23

  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.