PRIORITIES IN CRITICAL CARE NURSING succinctly addresses all the topics crucial to students or beginning critical care nurses. Designed for 9-13 week critical care classes, this new edition prepares the reader to integrate the technology of critical care with psychosocial concerns in order to provide high-quality nursing care. Discussions of pathophysiology, disorders, medical, and nursing management are research-based. Covering everything from the foundations of critical care nursing practice to nursing management, the reader will easily identify essential information with the help of special callout boxes throughout the text. Each nursing management plan incorporates nursing diagnosis, etiologic or related factors, clinical manifestations, and interventions with rationales, all liberally cross-referenced throughout the book. Spanish version also available, ISBN: 84-8174-553-7

Priorities in Critical Care Nursing

Medical Books

Stacy PhD APRN-CNS CCNS FCNS, Kathleen M.

Urden DNSc RN CNS FAAN, Linda D.

Nursing

Mosby

The thoroughly revised and updated edition of this classic provides a comprehensive, modern discussion of critical care nursing. Thelan's opening chapters address trends, pressing issues, and recent advances affecting the critical care student and nurse from ethics to pain management to caring for special populations. The remaining clinical units address alterations in the body's systems. Every body system unit covers Anatomy and Physiology, Clinical Assessment, Diagnostic Procedures, Disorders, and Therapeutic Management. Important updates include a new unit of prepared, detailed care plans; an updated pain management chapter; Nursing Diagnoses boxes featuring at-a-glance NANDA-approved diagnoses, and a new MERLIN website with online Study Guide and useful links for further study. · Logical body system organization · Boxed Nursing Diagnosis menus linked to Patient Education Boxes presented with each clinical disorder discussion. Common NANDA diagnoses are listed with cross references to special boxes that provide guidelines for patient education · Chapters on Anatomy and Physiology, Clinical Assessment, Diagnostic Procedures, Disorders, and Therapeutic Management for each body system unit · Evidence-based Research Utilization Boxes integrated throughout · Cultural Insights Boxes encourage culturally-sensitive care · Boxed information on Data Collection highlight cogent information for students in the clinical assessment chapters. These are in the clinical assessment chapters in units III through VIII and as appropriate in chapters in units I, II, and IX · Legal Review Boxes present summaries of recent legal findings and proceedings relevant to critical care nursing · Pharmacologic Management Tables present the dosages, actions, and special considerations for major drugs used in treating disorders in each body system. In units III through VIII, these are in the Therapeutic Management chapters. They also appear in Pain Management, High Risk and Critical Care Obstetric Issues, Perianesthesia Management, and Transplantation chapters · Includes additional chapters on multisystem and special populations alterations as well as fundamental concepts · Instructor's Electronic Resource (CD-ROM) presents new, additional content and allows easier access to a variety of teaching resources · MERLIN website provides links to relevant critical care websites, additional Clinical Applications for each body system, and discussions for the Case Study questions in the text · Critical Care Nursing Practice chapter to inform the student nurse about the ever-changing nature of the critical care nursing profession · New Unit X - Nursing Management Plans of Care allows the student nurse to find all nursing diagnosis care plans in the same area for more effective and efficient care planning · Pain Management chapter updated for a fully comprehensive chapter on pain and its management in the critical care setting · Research abstracts changed to Research Utilization Boxes - reformatted with the aim to provide current examples of evidence-based practice · Clinical Applications feature added to the end of the Therapeutic Management chapter for Units III-VIII . Rationale for the clinical application, additional clinical applications on the topics, and questions are continued on the MERLIN website (Includes a FREE online Study Guide and MERLIN website.) (PREVIOUS EDITION AVAILABLE IN SPANISH:8481745537)

Thelan's Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management

Lough PhD RN CCNS FCCM FAHA FCNS FAAN, Mary E.

Dynamic and engaging, Virtual Clinical Excursions is a workbook and CD-ROM package that guides users through a multi-floor virtual hospital featuring highly complex and diverse patients. Complementing core textbook reading assignments in Urden: Thelan's Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management, 4th Edition, lessons in the workbook provide a perfect opportunity for users to practice what they are learning in the text in a realistic clinical environment. The multi-floor hospital also has built in testing with immediate feedback of clinical knowledge with NCLEX-RN type questions.
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<li>Explores how to care for clients' most basic needs ― addressing activity and immobility, nutrition, oxygenation, and elimination, as well as special needs.</li>
<li>Features an Intensive Care Unit with: - James Story, a patient admitted for renal failure - James Franklin, who has undergone a carotid endarterectomy</li>
<li>Includes a guided tutorial which shows students how to work with a patient in a virtual hospital · collect patient data from various sources (reports, charts, medication administration record, short video clips and audio clips of nurse-patient interactions) · record patient data · listen to a report and itemize a patient's problems and high-priority concerns · sometimes administer medication · and more.</li>
<li>Emphasizes the importance of patient care ― from nursing assessment, diagnosis, and planning, to implementation and evaluation.</li>
<li>Requires students to document client-nurse interactions ― retrieving clinical data, maintaining quality and continuity of care, tracking client outcomes, and meeting current practice standards.</li>
</ul>Produced in conjunction with the Virtual Clinical Excursions CD-ROM authors: Jay Shiro Tashiro, PhD, RN; Ellen Sullins, PhD; Gina Long, RN, DNSc

Virtual Clinical Excursions 2.0 to Accompany Thelan's Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Stillwell DNP RN CNE, Susan B.

Psychology & Counseling

Thelan's Critical Care Nursing and Virtual Clinical Excursions 2.0 Package: Diagnosis and Management

This classic resource for critical care nursing is now a full-color text that provides a thorough examination of all the important aspects of critical care nursing with more appealing illustrations and design elements. Organized in ten units around alterations in body systems, this text's depth and scope will appeal to both novice and expert, while instructors praise its comprehensiveness and depend on its clinical relevance to inform their teaching and practice.
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<li>Special Feature list located in the inside front and back covers provide a quick reference for finding this information.</li>
<li> Clinical Applications promote student learning and critical thinking by illustrating the clinical course of a patient experiencing the history, clinical manifestations, treatment, and outcomes discussed.</li>
<li>Data Collection feature incorporates information that should be included as part of the patient's history.</li>
<li>Nursing Diagnoses feature fosters critical thinking and decision making in a boxed "menu" of nursing diagnoses, complete with specific etiologic or related factors.</li>
<li>Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) feature lists the important nursing actions for a variety of nursing interventions that would be commonly incorporated in the management of a critically ill patient requiring a specific therapeutic management.</li>
<li>Patient Education feature list the special topics that should be taught to the patient and family to prepare them for discharge. </li>
<li>Pharmacologic Management Tables outline the common medications, along with any special considerations, used in treatment of the different disorders presented in the text.</li>
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<li>Full-color design and illustrations visually enhance the text.</li>
<li>Evidence-Based Collaborative Practice feature highlights important research based articles on important topics like diabetic ketoacidosis, coronary artery disease and stable angina, and severe sepsis to help students understand the clinical significance of the problem.</li>
<li>Patient Safety Alert feature highlights any safety issue for the learner that is specific and related to the chapter discussion as well as prepares the learner for important clinical situations.</li>
<li>Collaborative Management boxes focus on the aspects of multidisciplinary care in the management of patients in the critical care setting. These are found in the nursing management sections, where appropriate, and are a numbered box.</li>
<li>Pulmonary Disorders chapter now covers SARS.</li>
<li>Neurologic Alterations chapters are restructured to three chapters in the unit.</li>
<li>Organ Donation and Transplantation chapter now has important information on organ donation and procurement process.</li>
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In this essentials version of the bestselling critical care nursing textbook (Thelan's Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management, 5th Edition), Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 5th Edition concisely addresses all of the core critical care nursing topics and helps you identify priorities to effectively manage patient care. Priorities in Critical Care Nursing also covers ethical and legal issues, patient and family education, psychosocial alterations, sleep alterations, nutritional alterations, gerontologic considerations, and end-of-life care.
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<li>UNIQUE! Determining your diagnosis priorities is simple with Nursing Diagnosis Priorities boxes accompanying each medical disorder and major medical treatment discussion.</li>
<li>UNIQUE! Patient Safety Priorities boxes included in each therapeutic management chapter highlight important patient safety considerations.</li>
<li>Collaborative Management boxes guide you through management of a wide variety of disorders.</li>
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<li>Full-color design and illustrations throughout give you a real-life look at critical care.</li>
<li>End-of-Life Care chapter discusses advance directives, palliative care, withdrawal of mechanical ventilation, and organ donation.</li>
<li>Hematologic and Oncologic Issues chapter in the "Multisystem Alterations" unit addresses issues related to immunosuppression oncology and hematologic oncology, including disseminated intravascular coagulation, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, and tumor lysis syndrome.</li>
<li>Evidence-Based Collaborative Practice features summarize evidence-based recommendations for a variety of therapies.</li>
<li>Patient Education features guide you in patient education for disorders including stroke, craniotomy, and Guillain-Barré syndrome.</li>
<li>Common critical conditions are easily understandable with Concept Maps on conditions including intracranial hypertension, acute respiratory failure, acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage, myocardial infarction, acute respiratory distress syndrome, diabetes mellitus, and septic shock.</li>
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This classic resource for critical care nursing is now a full-color text that provides a thorough examination of all the important aspects of critical care nursing with more appealing illustrations and design elements. Organized in ten units around alterations in body systems, this text's depth and scope will appeal to both novice and expert, while instructors praise its comprehensiveness and depend on its clinical relevance to inform their teaching and practice.

Thelan's Critical Care Nursing - Text and E-Book Package: Diagnosis and Management

Ensure you are up to date on all the common and urgent issues in the critical care unit withPriorities in Critical Care Nursing, 7th Edition! With its succinct coverage of all core critical care nursing topics,this evidence-based text is the perfect resource for both practicing nurses and nursing students alike. Using the latest, most authoritative research, this book will help you identify priorities to accurately and effectively manage patient care. Content spans the areas of medication, patient safety, patient education, nursing diagnosis, and collaborative management and much more to equip you for success in all aspects of critical care nursing. This new edition also features new case studies, new QSEN-focused call-out boxes throughout the text, a complete digital glossary, and revised chapter summaries.
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<li>Evidence-based approach offers the most accurate and timely patient care recommendations based on the latest and most authoritative research, meta-analyses, and systematic reviews available.</li>
<li>UNIQUE! Nursing Diagnosis Priorities boxes list the most urgent potential nursing diagnoses, with a page reference to the corresponding Nursing Management Plan.</li>
<li>Nursing Management Plans provide a complete care plan for every Priority Diagnosis that includes the diagnosis, definition, defining characteristics, outcome criteria, nursing interventions, and rationales.</li>
<li>Case studies with critical thinking questions test your understanding of key concepts and their practical applications.</li>
<li>Concept maps help students understand common critical health conditions, including acute coronary syndrome, acute renal failure, ischemic stroke, and shock.</li>
<li>Collaborative Management boxes guide you through the management of a wide variety of disorders.</li>
<li>Patient Education boxes list the concepts that must be taught to the patient and the family before discharge from the ICU.</li>
<li>Priority Medication boxes offer a foundation in the pharmacology used most in critical care.</li>
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<li>NEW! QSEN Evidence-Based Practice boxes use the PICOT framework to cover a timely topic and the research that underlies current patient care.</li>
<li>NEW! TEACH for Nurses manual includes unique case studies, outlines, instructor resources, student resources, answer keys, and more.</li>
<li>NEW! PowerPoint slides with unfolding case studies have been updated to include interactive questions and sample handoff information in the ISBARR format for appropriate chapters.</li>
<li>NEW! Cultural Competency boxes provide information on basic cultural topics, including what cues to watch for and how to better provide culturally competent care.</li>
<li>NEW! QSEN Teamwork and Collaboration boxes offer concise guidelines for effective handoffs, assessments, and communications between nurses and other hospital staff.</li>
<li>NEW! QSEN Patient Safety Alert boxes highlight important guidelines and tips to ensure patient safety.</li>
<li>NEW! QSEN Internet Resources boxes identify key organizations and websites for both general critical care practice and for each specific body system.</li>
<li>NEW! Key points at the end of each chapter offer a quick study tool for students.</li>
<li>NEW! More-detailed objectives now include every dis</li>
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Priorities in Critical Care Nursing - Text and E-Book Package

Book by Urden DNSc RN CNS NE-BC FAAN, Linda D., Stacy PhD RN CNS CCRN PCCN CCNS, Kathleen M., Lough PhD RN CNS CCRN CNRN CCNS, Mary E.

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Priorities in Critical Care Nursing

Thelan's Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management

Virtual Clinical Excursions 2.0 to Accompany Thelan's Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management

Thelan's Critical Care Nursing and Virtual Clinical Excursions 2.0 Package: Diagnosis and Management

Thelan's Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management

Priorities in Critical Care Nursing

Thelan's Critical Care Nursing - Text and E-Book Package: Diagnosis and Management

Priorities in Critical Care Nursing - Text and E-Book Package

Critical Care Nursing - Text and E-Book Package: Diagnosis and Management

Priorities in Critical Care Nursing