Research Catalog

Title

Priorities in critical care nursing / [edited by] Linda D. Urden, Mary E. Lough, Kathleen M. Stacy.

Publication

St. Louis, MO : Mosby, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Lough, Mary E.
• Stacy, Kathleen M.
• Urden, Linda Diann.

Description

xx, 548 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Subjects

• Nursing Care
• Intensive care nursing
• Nurses Instruction
• Critical Care

Genre/Form

Nurses Instruction.

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Essentials of critical care nursing / Linda Diann Urden, Joseph Kevin Davie, Lynne Ann Thelan. c1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The Nursing Process / Linda D. Urden -- 2. Ethical and Legal Issues / Linda D. Urden -- 3. Patient and Family Education / Colleen O'Donnell -- 4. Psychosocial Alterations / Katherine Fortinash -- 5. Sleep Alterations / Jacqueline Kartman -- 6. Nutritional Alterations / Mary Courtney Moore -- 7. Gerontologic Alterations / Mariann Rebenson-Piano -- 8. Cardiovascular Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures / Mary E. Lough, Martha Love and Jennifer Bloomquist -- 9. Cardiovascular Disorders / Mimi O'Donnell -- 10. Cardiovascular Therapeutic Management / Joni Dirks -- 11. Pulmonary Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures / Kathleen M. Stacy -- 12. Pulmonary Disorders / Kathleen M. Stacy -- 13. Pulmonary Therapeutic Management / Kathleen M. Stacy -- 14. Neurologic Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures / Kathleen A. Mendez -- 15. Neurologic Disorders / Kathleen A. Mendez -- 16. Neurologic Therapeutic Management / Kathleen A. Mendez --
• 17. Renal Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures / Lois Catts -- 18. Renal Disorders and Therapeutic Management / Lois Catts -- 19. Gastrointestinal Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures / Wendy Bodwell -- 20. Gastrointestinal Disorders and Therapeutic Management / Wendy Bodwell -- 21. Endocrine Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures / Joann M. Clark -- 22. Endocrine Disorders and Therapeutic Management / Joann M. Clark -- 23. Trauma / Karen Johnson -- 24. Burns / Linda Valentino -- 25. Shock and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome / Kathleen M. Stacy and Lorraine Fitzsimmons -- Nursing Management of Health Promotion -- Nursing Management of Psychosocial Alterations -- Nursing Management of Sleep Alterations -- Nursing Management of Cardiovascular Alterations -- Nursing Management of Pulmonary Alterations -- Nursing Management of Neurologic Alterations -- Nursing Management of Renal Alterations -- Nursing Management of Gastrointestinal Alterations --
• Nursing Management of Endocrine Alterations -- Appendix A: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Guidelines -- Appendix B: Physiologic Formula for Critical Care.

ISBN

0815189478

LCCN

95020589

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries