A classic in its field, this popular text provides clinical coverage of critical care nursing, with an emphasis on holism in practice to provide students with a solid grasp of the scientific and clinical knowledge they need to deliver safe and effective care. Beginning with the psychosocial concepts of care, the text progresses through assessment and management of a variety of disorders. Its comprehensive yet concise writing offers students a wealth of information and can be used as a future reference. Now under the head authorship of Tricia Morton, Critical Care Nursing maintains its popular holistic approach to the complexities of adult health and critical care. The Eighth Edition is now in full-color, and has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent changes and advances in critical care nursing. A CD-ROM in the back of this edition has common Critical Care Drug Monographs, Crisis Values of Lab Tests, Critical Care Nursing Procedures, Animations, and comprehensive critical care exams.

Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach

Medical Books

MORTON, PATRICIA GONCE

Nursing

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

University of Maryland, Baltimore. New edition of a text of nursing diagnosis for students. Focus includes holistic care, nursing process application, and developmentally and culturally appropriate care. Variety of illustrations including color plates. Previous edition 1989. 25 U.S. contributors.

Health Assessment in Nursing

F.A. Davis Co.

Revised and expanded, this Second Edition gives all the information you need to assess clients quickly, thoroughly, and confidently. In it, you'll find every important assessment detail and every assessment procedure. Special features include: basic and advanced physical assessment techniques; health history questions and rationales to determine a client's health and illness patterns, health promotion and protection behaviors, and role and relationship patterns; full details on assessment equipment and techniques; checklists for physical assessment preparation; thorough and accurate inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation details for each body system or structure; step-by-step illustrated procedures; practical guidelines for assessing nutritional status, activities of daily living, and sleep and wakefulness patterns; special considerations for pediatric, pregnant, breast-feeding, and elderly clients; body system-specific NANDA nursing diagnoses; sample SOAPIE documentation of assessment findings from case studies; quick-scan charts that summarize techniques, normal findings, and special considerations; basic anatomy illustrations that review each body system; easy-to-review charts of normal values for common laboratory tests; comprehensive master glossary for ready reference; guide to illustrations for fast retrieval of vital visual material and all new appendices, including common laboratory tests.

Davis's Clinical Guide to Health Assessment

Health assessment in nursing

Springhouse Corp.

Nurse's Clinical Guide--Health Assessment

Morton, P.

Springhouse Corporation

Fully revised and streamlined to include the most recent information, Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach , 10e provides students with the theory and application knowledge necessary to fully prepare them for the highly specialized and complicated technical world of critical care nursing. These specially designed features assist students in providing competent and compassionate care to critically ill patients and their families: · NEW!! Evidence-Based Practice Highlights focus attention on the importance of research-based practice and include significant excerpts from AACN practice alerts as well as guidelines from other relevant organizations. · NEW!! Icons to identify drug therapy tables as well as laboratory and diagnostic tables focus attention on significant information. · NEW!! Spotlight on Genetics box, appearing in selected chapters, is key to understanding how genetic factors influence disorders. NEW!! Patient Safety boxes guide safe and effective practice by alerting the critical care nurse of risk factors, signs and symptoms, side effects, and complications. · Considerations for the Older Patient boxes highlight the special needs of the fastest growing part of our population – older patients. · Health History boxes summarize key areas that should be covered and relevant information that may be revealed during the health history. · Collaborative Care Guides, presented in a tabular format containing outcomes and interventions, describe how the health care team works together to manage a patient’s illness and minimize complications. · Teaching Guides help the critical care nurse to prepare patients and family members for procedures, assist patients and family members with understanding the illness they are dealing with, explain post-procedure or postoperative activities, or prepare a patient for discharge from the hospital. · Nursing Diagnoses boxes use current NANDA terminology to summarize common nursing diagnoses for particular conditions. Nursing Interventions tables and boxes highlight key information for the critical care nurse

Critcal Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Lippincot, Williams & Wilkins

Now in its Ninth Edition, this classic text and reference maintains its popular holistic approach to the complexities of critical care nursing. The book's comprehensive coverage begins with the psychosocial concepts of care and progresses through assessment and management of a variety of disorders. Now under the lead authorship of Tricia Morton, this revision of the classic Hudak text maintains the goal of promoting excellence in critical care. Each chapter was written by a subject matter expert to ensure the most up-to-date and accurate information. Presenting theory and principles within the context of practical application helps the reader to gain competence and confidence in caring for critically ill patients and their families. As always, the patient as the center of the health care team's efforts is emphasized throughout. It should be noted that the second author, Dorrie Fontaine, is the Past-President of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.

Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach, International Edition

Fontaine, Dorrie K., RN, Ph.D.

"Streamlined to include the most recent information, Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach, 12e provides students with the theory and application knowledge necessary to fully prepare them for the highly specialized and complicated technical world of critical care nursing"--

THURMAN, PAUL

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Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach

Health Assessment in Nursing

Davis's Clinical Guide to Health Assessment

Health assessment in nursing

Nurse's Clinical Guide--Health Assessment

Critcal Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach

Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach, International Edition

Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach