Sole's Introduction to Critical Care Nursing, 9th Edition
$282.64
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
2 September 2024
Summary
Sole’s Introduction to Critical Care Nursing, 9th Edition is a concise, easy-to-understand guide to safe and effective patient care, offering excellent preparation for the Next-Generation NCLEX® Examination.
- Balance of depth and breadth: Covers concepts, technology, and procedures of critical and progressive care nursing, emphasizing patient safety and person-centered care.
- Organized by body system/special situation: Disorders commonly seen in critical and progressive care settings are conveniently organized, with nursing management chapters including quick-reference nursing care plans.
- Practical learning aids: Features true-to-life illustrations, integrated clinical judgment activities, case studies with additional clinical judgment questions, in-text self-check questions, and a Universal Collaborative Plan of Care for the Critically Ill Patient.
- Evidence-Based Practice boxes: Demonstrate the connection between theory and practice, including a problem, clinical question, evidence, and implications for nursing.
- Clinical Judgment Activities: Throughout the text, promoting development of clinical nursing judgment for NGN and clinical practice.
- Clinical Alerts: Highlight concerns, significance, and procedures to help understand potential problems.
- Hundreds of full-color photographs and drawings: Clarify key concepts and demonstrate equipment in the critical care environment.
- NEW! Content on COVID-19 implications: Includes proning as a standard critical care procedure and expanded coverage of nursing self-care.
- NEW! Expanded tools for NGN Exam: More coverage of the six cognitive skills of NCSBN’s Clinical Judgment Measurement Model, with new use of cognitive skills along with nursing process terminology, and expanded, newly interactive NGN-style case studies.
- NEW! Updated content: Reflects the latest evidence-based developments and national/international guidelines.
- NEW! Integration of 2021 AACN Essentials: Special emphasis on Clinical Judgment and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, including non-gendered language and diverse illustrations.
- NEW! Key Points bulleted lists: Reinforce the most important content in each chapter.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780443110368 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0443110360 |
| Author: | Mary Beth Flynn Makic, Lauren T. Morata |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Health Sciences |
| Imprint: | Churchill Livingstone |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Edition: | 9th |
| Release Date: | 2 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 1.43kg |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 276mm |
Mary Beth Flynn Makic
Mary Beth Flynn Makic has more than 30 years of critical care experience in research, evidence-based practice, and clinical education. She is a Professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing and Program Director for the Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist graduate program. She is also a Research Scientist at a Level I trauma center in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Makic achieved her BSN from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. She completed her Masters of Science at the University of Maryland at Baltimore with a focus on trauma patient populations and the advanced practice role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist. Her PhD was conferred in 2007 by the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. She is active locally and nationally in several professional organizations and recently served on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. She also serves on the editorial board of several critical care journals, has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and is a successor co-author of two Elsevier books on nursing diagnosis. Dr. Makic is well known for her passion for improving patient outcomes and nursing practice through evidence-based practice.
Lauren T. Morata is an experienced critical care and trauma nurse with a passion for evidence-based practice and research. She is a Clinical Nurse Specialist for Clinical Quality at Lakeland Regional Health. Dr. Morata graduated with her BS from the University of Central Florida. She received her MSN as Clinical Nurse Specialist from the University of Cincinnati and a DNP from the University of Central Florida. She is involved in professional organizations both locally and nationally, including the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. She has been honored with awards both locally and nationally, most recently AACN’s Circle of Excellence.
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