Synopses & Reviews
The Fourth Edition of High Acuity Nursing delivers essential understanding of complex patients and instructs both students and nurses on how to provide nursing care in varied clinical settings. Broken down into a series of learner-focused, active learning modules, High Acuity Nursing takes complex information and presents it in smaller, more accessible chunks that promote easier mastery by readers. As the modules progress in difficulty, this text addresses the multiple-system problems that nurses face when caring for high acuity patients.
With a focus on concepts and principles that can be applied across practice settings and patient populations, High Acuity Nursing, Fourth Edition is a learner-friendly approach that will help nurses and nursing students master the concepts and confidence necessary to succeed in today’s health care settings.
New to this edition:
- Greater attention to problems seen in high acuity populations
- Integration of research and Evidence Based Practice boxes throughout modules
- Conceptual approach to patient care that provides readers with an understanding of rationales
- Consistency and continuity among modules that is achieved by means of a single concept or nursing application format
Table of Contents
SPECIAL TOPICS
1. Caring for the High Acuity Patient: Patient, Family, and Nursing Consideration
2. Acute Pain in the High Acuity Patient
3. Fluid and Electrolyte Balance in the High Acuity Patient
PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE
4. Determination and Assessment of Pulmonary Gas Exchange
5. Alterations in Pulmonary Gas Exchange
6. Mechanical Ventilation
7. Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered Pulmonary Gas Exchange
PERFUSION
8. Determination and Assessment of Cardiac Output
9. Hemodynamic Monitoring
10. Electrocardiographic Monitoring and Conduction Abnormalities
11. Alterations in Myocardial Tissue Perfusion
12. Alterations in Cardiac Output
13. Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered with Altered Myocardial Tissue Perfusion
OXYGENATION
14. Oxygenation
15. Shock States
16. Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
17. Nursing Care of Patient with Impaired Oxygenation
NEUROLOGIC
18. Determinants and Assessment of Cerebral Perfusion
19. Alterations in Cerebral Tissue Perfusion: Acute Brain Attack
20. Decreased Adaptive Capacity: Acute Head Injury
21. Sensory Perceptual Disorders
22. Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered Cerebral Function
METABOLIC
23. Metabolic Responses
24. Hematologic Dysfunction
25. Altered Immune Function
26. Organ Transplantation
27. Altered Glucose metabolism
28. Altered Renal Dysfunction
29. Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered Metabolic Function
GASTROINTESTINAL
30. Acute Gastrointestinal Dysfunction
31. Acute Hepatic Dysfunction
32. Acute Pancreatic Dysfunction
33. Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered Gastrointestinal Function
INJURY
34. Complex Wound Management
35. Acute Burn Injury
36. Trauma
37. Nursing Care of the Patient with Multiple Injuries