High Acuity Nursing

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Prentice-Hall, 2001 - Medical - 1042 pages

A supplement for a variety of junior/senior-level courses in Critical Care or Advanced Med-Surg Nursing courses and others throughout the nursing curriculum.

Written by practicing nurses in acute care, this text provides students with a basic understanding of complex patients and the ability to provide nursing care across a variety of settings by using a series of reality-based, self-paced, self-contained modules that focus on multiple system problems frequently encountered in working with high acuity patients. Using a "nuts and bolts" approach, it addresses essentials by using examples, analogies, and metaphors; focuses on concepts and principles that can be applied across practice settings and patient populations; and includes nursing diagnoses. The modules progress from simple to complex and contain pretests and posttests with answers, learning objectives, glossary, abbreviations, and review questions and answers.

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RESPIRATION AND VENTILATION
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Arterial Blood Gas Analysis
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TitleHigh Acuity Nursing
AuthorsPamela Stinson Kidd, Kathleen Dorman Wagner
Edition3, illustrated
PublisherPrentice-Hall, 2001
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedAug 21, 2008
ISBN0838537456, 9780838537459
Length1042 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Medical / Nursing / Critical & Intensive Care
Medical / Nursing / Emergency
Medical / Nursing / General
  
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