Priorities in Critical Care Nursing 7e: Your Ultimate Resource for Critical Care Excellence

Stay up-to-date on all common and urgent issues in the critical care unit with Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 7th Edition. This evidence-based text is the perfect resource for both practicing nurses and nursing students, providing succinct coverage of all core critical care nursing topics.

Evidence-Based Approach for Accurate Patient Care

With its evidence-based approach, this book offers the most accurate and timely patient care recommendations based on the latest and most authoritative research, meta-analyses, and systematic reviews available. This ensures that you have the confidence to accurately and effectively manage patient care.

Unique Features to Enhance Your Learning

This comprehensive text includes unique features that set it apart from other critical care nursing resources:

• Nursing Diagnosis Priorities boxes: list the most urgent potential nursing diagnoses, with a page reference to the corresponding Nursing Management Plan.
• Nursing Management Plans: provide a complete care plan for every Priority Diagnosis that includes the diagnosis, definition, defining characteristics, outcome criteria, nursing interventions, and rationales.
• Case studies with critical thinking questions: test your understanding of key concepts and their practical applications.
• Concept maps: help students understand common critical health conditions, including acute coronary syndrome, acute renal failure, ischemic stroke, and shock.
• Collaborative Management boxes: guide you through the management of a wide variety of disorders.
• Patient Education boxes: list the concepts that must be taught to the patient and the family before discharge from the ICU.
• Priority Medication boxes: offer a foundation in the pharmacology used most in critical care.

New Features in the 7th Edition

This latest edition includes new features to enhance your learning experience:

• QSEN Evidence-Based Practice boxes: use the PICOT framework to cover a timely topic and the research that underlies current patient care.
• TEACH for Nurses manual: includes unique case studies, outlines, instructor resources, student resources, answer keys, and more.
• PowerPoint slides with unfolding case studies: have been updated to include interactive questions and sample handoff information in the ISBARR format for appropriate chapters.
• Cultural Competency boxes: provide information on basic cultural topics, including what cues to watch for and how to better provide culturally competent care.
• QSEN Teamwork and Collaboration boxes: offer concise guidelines for effective handoffs, assessments, and communications between nurses and other hospital staff.
• QSEN Patient Safety Alert boxes: highlight important guidelines and tips to ensure patient safety.
• QSEN Internet Resources boxes: identify key organizations and websites for both general critical care practice and for each specific body system.
• Key points at the end of each chapter: offer a quick study tool for students.
• More-detailed objectives: now include every disorder covered in the chapter.
• Digital glossary: on the Evolve companion site helps to increase students’ critical care nursing vocabulary.

This comprehensive text is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to excel in critical care nursing. With its evidence-based approach and wealth of unique features, Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 7th Edition is the perfect tool to help you identify priorities and accurately manage patient care.