Core Curriculum for Critical Care Nursing

CORE CURRICULUM FOR CRITICAL CARE NURSING FOURTH EDITION Now Includes Nursing Diagnoses! Here's the essential knowledge for critical care nursing - directly from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses! In the Core Curriculum, you'll find nursing assessment, nursing diagnoses, and interventions for patient health problems in each body system physiologic data to complete your understanding of each problem and its management psychosocial considerations legal and management psychosocial considerations legal and ethical concerns encountered in critical care nursing practice - all in an easily accessible outline format! This new edition is the ideal study outline for critical care orientation and continuing education programs and serves as an important resource to help you prepare for critical care certification. You'll also appreciate coverage of the latest advances in critical care nursing practice nursing diagnoses appropriate for critically ill patients new coverage of gastrointestinal disorders, including malignancies, inflammatory bowel disorders, bowel infarction, and trauma and new coverage of peripheral vascular disease, cardiac assist devices, PET scans, and other emergent diagnostic tests.