Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management, 4th Edition

Every body system unit covers Anatomy and Physiology, Clinical Assessment, Diagnostic Procedures, Disorders, and Therapeutic Management. Important updates include a new unit of prepared, detailed care plans; an updated pain management chapter; Nursing Diagnoses boxes featuring at-a-glance NANDA-approved diagnoses, and a new MERLIN website with online Study Guide and useful links for further study.

– Logical body system organization
– Boxed Nursing Diagnosis menus linked to Patient Education Boxes presented with each clinical disorder discussion. Common NANDA diagnoses are listed with cross references to special boxes that provide guidelines for patient education
– Chapters on Anatomy and Physiology, Clinical Assessment, Diagnostic Procedures, Disorders, and Therapeutic Management for each body system unit
– Evidence-based Research Utilization Boxes integrated throughout
– Cultural Insights Boxes encourage culturally-sensitive care
– Boxed information on Data Collection highlight cogent information for students in the clinical assessment chapters. These are in the clinical assessment chapters in units III through VIII and as appropriate in chapters in units I, II, and IX
– Legal Review Boxes present summaries of recent legal findings and proceedings relevant to critical care nursing
– Pharmacologic Management Tables present the dosages, actions, and special considerations for major drugs used in treating disorders in each body system. In units III through VIII, these are in the Therapeutic Management chapters. They also appear in Pain Management, High Risk and Critical Care Obstetric Issues, Perianesthesia Management, and Transplantation chapters
– Includes additional chapters on multisystem and special populations alterations as well as fundamental concepts

– Instructor’s Electronic Resource (CD-ROM) presents new, additional content and allows easier access to a variety of teaching resources
– MERLIN website provides links to relevant critical care websites, additional Clinical Applications for each body system, and discussions for the Case Study questions in the text
– Critical Care Nursing Practice chapter to inform the student nurse about the ever-changing nature of the critical care nursing profession
– New Unit X – Nursing Management Plans of Care allows the student nurse to find all nursing diagnosis care plans in the same area for more effective and efficient care planning
– Pain Management chapter updated for a fully comprehensive chapter on pain and its management in the critical care setting
– Research abstracts changed to Research Utilization Boxes – reformatted with the aim to provide current examples of evidence-based practice
– Clinical Applications feature added to the end of the Therapeutic Management chapter for Units III-VIII . Rationale for the clinical application, additional clinical applications on the topics, and questions are continued on the MERLIN website