Critical Care: Concepts, Role, and Practice for the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner / Edition 1

by Mary Wyckoff PhD, APRN, BC,, Douglas Houghton MSN, ARNP, CCRN, Carolyn LePage PhD

Overview

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!

Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award of 2009!

There is little doubt that every ACNP in practice or in training will want a copy of this reference in their lab coat pocket."

—Ric Cuming, RN, MSN, EdD (c), CNOR, NEA-BC

Chief Nursing Officer

Jackson Memorial Hospital

Long overdue-This comprehensive critical care text will fill the void, especially for nurses advancing from BSN to Advanced Practice. The authors have covered all the basics and produced a text that provides a well-rounded knowledge base for critical care.

-Jeanne H. Siegel, PhD, ARNP

University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies

This book defines what it means to be a nurse in critical care. With this text, Acute Care Nurse Practitioners (ACNPs) will learn what to expect in the critical care unit, and how to manage various complications with patients in acute and intensive care settings.

Significant emphasis is given to the complex pathophysiology and appropriate management of common problems encountered in the critical care environment, including trauma, infections, and disease. One chapter is also dedicated to the medical, legal, and ethical aspects of critical care. Critical Care is thus the must-have reference for graduate students as well as for practicing ACPNs.

Key topics include:

• The role of the ACPN in acute and critical care
• Pulmonary management
• Cardiac concepts in acute care settings
• Managing liver, kidney, and kidney pancreas transplant in the ICU
• Burn management
• Multisystem organ failure
• End-of-life and palliative care
• Family-centered care

Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award for 2009!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826138262
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	07/08/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	580
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

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Table of Contents

Contributors vii

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Chapter 1 The Acute Care Nurse Practitioner: An Established Role in Acute and Critical Care Ruth M. Kleinpell 1

Chapter 2 Legal Issues for Critical Care Advanced Practice Nurses Anna G. Small 17

Chapter 3 Critical Care Pulmonary Management Suzanne M. Burns 49

Chapter 4 Cardiac Concepts in Acute Care Richard B. Silverman Carolyn Therese LePage 89

Chapter 5 Neurological Critical Care Filissa M. Caserta Marie S. Depew Jennifer L. Moran 139

Chapter 6 Managing Liver, Kidney, and Kidney-Pancreas Transplant in the ICU Mary Wyckoff Valerie Wells Akin Tekin 247

Chapter 7 Care of the Critically Injured Patient Scott Gmora Joseph P. Corallo 271

Chapter 8 Burn Management Robin Prater Varas Olga Quintana Doris Braddy 297

Chapter 9 Multisystem Organ Failure Barbara A. McLean 319

Chapter 10 Nutrition, Fluids, and Electrolytes in the Critically Ill Patient Jennifer Lefton 357

Chapter 11 Endocrine Emergencies Barbara A. McLean 399

Chapter 12 Infection and Antibiotic Use in the Critically Ill Patient Nicholas Namias Douglas Houghton 443

Chapter 13 End-of-Life and Palliative Care Douglas Houghton 459

Chapter 14 Procedures in Critical Care Amanda J. Morehouse Mary Wyckoff John Mason 481

Chapter 15 Sedation and Analgesia in the ICU Sean M. Quinn Miguel A. Cobas 519

Chapter 16 Family-Centered Care Carolyn Therese LePage 533

Index 551