Ebook: Critical care nursing: a holistic approach

Critical care nursing practice : promoting excellence through caring, collaboration, and evidence -- The patient's experience with critical illness -- The family's experience with critical illness -- Patient and family education in critical care -- Relieving pain and providing comfort -- Palliative care and end-of-life issues in critical care -- Ethical issues in critical care nursing -- Legal issues in critical care nursing -- Building a professional practice model for excellence in critical care nursing -- The critically ill pediatric patient -- The critically ill pregnant woman -- The critically ill older patient -- The postanesthesia patient -- Rapid response teams and transport of the critically ill patient -- Disaster management : implications for the critical care nurse -- Anatomy and physiology of the cardiovasular system -- Patient assessment : cardiovascular system -- Patient management : cardiovascular system -- Common cardiovascular disorders -- Heart failure -- Acute myocardial infarction -- Cardiac surgery -- Anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system -- Patient assessment : respiratory system -- Patient management : respiratory system -- Common respiratory disorders -- Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome -- Anatomy and physiology of the renal system -- Patient assessment : renal system -- Patient management : renal system -- Renal failure -- Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system -- Patient assessment : nervous system -- Patient management : nervous system -- Common neurosurgical and neurological disorders -- Traumatic brain injury -- Spinal cord injury -- Anatomy and physiology of the gastrointestinal system -- Patient assessment : gastrointestinal system -- Patient management : gastrointestinal system -- Common gastrointestinal disorders -- Anatomy and physiology of the endocrine system -- Patient assessment : endocrine system -- Common endocrine disorders -- Anatomy and physiology of the hematological and immune systems -- Patient assessment : hematological and immune systems -- Organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation -- Common immunological disorders -- Common hematological disorders -- Anatomy and physiology of the integumentary system -- Patient assessment : integumentary system -- Patient management : integumentary system -- Burns and common integumentary disorders -- Shock, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome -- Trauma -- Drug overdose and poisoning.