Critical Care Nursing

<i>Critical Care Nursing: Learning from Practice</i> takes a unique approach to critical care. Based around case scenarios that have the patient as the central focus, each chapter is constructed around an example of a critically ill patient with specific care needs. The chapters then go on to critically explore the knowledge and skills required to deliver expert care. This book looks at a range of critical care scenarios, including: <ul> <li>The patient with acute lung injury</li> <li>The patient with fever</li> <li>The patient with an acute kidney injury</li> <li>The patient with long term needs</li> <li>The patient with increased intra-abdominal pressure</li> <li>The Patient following cardiac surgery <p>Each chapter develops knowledge of the related physiology/pathophysiology, appropriate nursing interventions that are research/evidence based, technical skills, data interpretation and critical appraisal skills, enabling the reader to apply fundamental knowledge to more complex patient problems.  Critical Care Nursing: Learning from Practice is an essential resource for practitioners faced with complex and challenging patient cases.</p> </li> </ul>