5th Edition
Intensive Care Nursing A Framework for Practice
The fifth edition of this essential text provides a comprehensive overview of working in intensive care. Written for critical care nurses practising at level 3, it is fully updated to ensure the evidence base is up to date and the content reflects contemporary best practice.
Intensive Care Nursing covers patient-focused issues of bedside nursing; the technical knowledge necessary to care safely for ICU patients; the more common and specialised disease processes and treatments encountered; and how nurses can use their knowledge and skills to develop their own and others' practice. This feature includes all-new chapters on maternal critical care, and principles of pharmacology for intensive care nursing. The chapters include numerous pedagogical features to aid readers transfer their learning, such as boxes highlighting implications for practice, further reading sections, and clinical scenarios with questions.
Intensive Care Nursing is essential reading for student and qualified nurses and allied health professionals working with critically ill patients, particularly those undertaking post-registration training in the area.
Part 1: Contexts of Care
1. Nursing Perspectives and the Humanistic Approach
2. Principles of Pharmacology
3. Psychological Care
Part 2: Fundamental
4. Artificial Ventilation
5. Airway Management
6. Sedation
7. Acute Pain Management
8. Thermoregulation
9. Nutrition and Bowel Care
10. Mouthcare
11. Eyecare
12. Tissue Viability
13. Children in Adult ICUs
14. Older Patients in ICU
15. Infection Prevention and Control
16. Epidemics and Pandemics
Part 3: Monitoring
17. Respiratory Monitoring
18. Gas Carriage
19. Blood Gas Interpretation
20. Haemodynamic Monitoring
21. Blood Results
22. ECGs and Dysrhythmias
23. Neurological Monitoring
Part 4: Micropathologies
24. Cellular Pathology
25. Immunity and Immunodeficiency
26. Haemostasis
Part 5: Respiratory
27. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
28. Alternative Ventilation
Part 6: Cardiovascular
29. Acute Coronary Syndromes
30. Cardiac Surgery and Interventions
31. Shock
32. Sepsis
33. Fluid Management
34. Inotropes and Vasopressors
35. Vascular Surgery
Part 7: Neurological
36. Central Nervous System Injury
37. Peripheral Neurological Pathologies
Part 8: Abdominal
38. Acute Kidney Injury
39. Haemofiltration
40. Gastrointestinal Bleeds
41. Liver Failure
42. Maternal Critical Care
43. Organ Donation
Part 9: Metabolic
44. Severe Acute Pancreatitis
45. Diabetic Crises
46. Self-poisoning
Part 10: Professional
47. Transferring Critically Ill Patients
48. Professional Perspectives
49. Managing the ICU
50. Costs of Intensive Care
Biography
The late Philip Woodrow was Practice Development Nurse in Critical Care at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust, UK. He authored the first four editions of Intensive Care Nursing, as well as Nursing Acutely Ill Adults and High Dependency Nursing Care.
Barry Hill is a Professor of Acute and Critical Care Nursing, and Head of School for Nursing and Midwifery at Buckinghamshire New University, UK. Internationally recognised in education, he has authored 9 books, authored over 60 book chapters, and published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Currently, Barry is the Consultant Editor for the International Journal of Advancing Practice (IJAP) and the Clinical Editor for the British Journal of Nursing (BJN).
