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A Nurse's Survival Guide to Critical Care - Updated Edition, 1st Edition

Authors :
Sharon L. Edwards & Joyce Williams
Date of Publication: 05/2019
Are you a starting work in critical care? Are you an experienced nurse but need to check guidelines and best practices? This is the indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems faced by nurses working in this specialty. This book will he ...view more

Are you a starting work in critical care? Are you an experienced nurse but need to check guidelines and best practices?

This is the indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems faced by nurses working in this specialty.

This book will help you to

  • Organise your job and yourself
  • Assess patients and communicate with them
  • Get clinical information on a wide range of conditions
  • What to do in emergency

This UPDATED edition:

  • Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field
  • Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis
  • Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career.

Part of the A Nurse’s Survival Guide series

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Are you a starting work in critical care? Are you an experienced nurse but need to check guidelines and best practices?

This is the indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems faced by nurses working in this specialty.

This book will help you to

  • Organise your job and yourself
  • Assess patients and communicate with them
  • Get clinical information on a wide range of conditions
  • What to do in emergency

This UPDATED edition:

  • Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field
  • Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis
  • Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career.

Part of the A Nurse’s Survival Guide series


Key Features

Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field

Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis

Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career.

 


Author Information
By Sharon L. Edwards, EdD SFHEA NTF MSc PGCEA DipN(Lon) RN, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Allied Health, Buckinghamshire New University, Uxbridge, UK and Joyce Williams, RN BSc (Hons) MSc PGCert FHEA, Senior Lecturer, Buckinghamshire New University, Uxbridge, UK