Editorial Review:

From AACN experts comes a resource dedicated to helping you oversee or care for critical care patients in any practice setting. This comprehensive critical care nursing textbook addresses serious and potentially life-threatening patient conditions with a foundation rooted in the critical thinking process: the comprehension, analysis, synthesis, and application of knowledge.

• Endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the largest specialty nursing organization in the United States, for the most authoritative coverage available.
• Thorough discussions of each body system emphasize advanced concepts, presenting physiology in an application format that examines the clinical implications of physiological science.
• Coverage of assessment focuses on interpreting abnormal findings and linking those findings to diagnosis and intervention.
• Appropriate interventions are discussed from an interdisciplinary, evidence-based perspective.
• Hundreds of new, full-color illustrations and design clarify important concepts and improve the book's usability.
• Complex, unfolding case studies are presented in all disease chapters, accompanied by review questions with a comprehensive answer key.
• Multidisciplinary Plans of Care provide at-a-glance information for common ICU conditions.
• Nutrition boxes appear in each relevant chapter, offering guidelines for patient needs with specific illnesses.
• Research-Based Practice Guidelines boxes and Promoting Evidence-Based Practice features appear throughout the text whenever applicable to present the latest research-supported nursing assessment and intervention practices.
• Drug boxes include common classifications of critical care drugs for specific disorders, including drug, actions, dosage, and special considerations.
• Applying the Technology features help you apply the latest technology to patient care.
• NIC Interventions boxes list NIC intervention labels appropriate for the conditions discussed in a chapter.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Best Ever:

Books are very expensive and if I could only buy one this would be it. It is very comphrensive and has all the info needed while working in an ICU.

AACN Advanced Critical Care Nursing Book Review:

I have over 34 years of critical care nursing experience including the roles of staff nurses, clinical nurse specialist, and nurse faculty. For many years, I have wanted a critical care nursing textbook that contained more advanced content for myself and to recommend for my graduate nursing students. The content of this textbook is more advanced than any other available critical care nursing textbook. In addition, the formatting of this textbook is very well done. There are many figures, flow charts and... more info

Must have ICU reference book:

I have been out of ICU nursing for the past 1 1/2 years and this book is great at getting me up to speed. It's current and explains everything very well.

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