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Advanced Practice in Critical Care: A Case Study Approach

ISBN: 978-1-119-09639-9

January 2015

Wiley-Blackwell

288 pages

Description
Advanced Practice in Critical Care provides experienced critical care nurses with a clear and distinct evidence base for contemporary critical care practice. Central to the book is the application of research and evidence to practice and therefore, case studies and key critical care clinical situations are used throughout to guide the reader through the patient care trajectory.

 

 

Each chapter introduces an initial patient scenario and as the chapter progresses, the patient scenario develops with the theoretical perspectives and application. In this way, it is evident how multi-organ dysfunction develops, impacting upon and influencing other body systems, demonstrating the multi-organ impact that is often experienced by the critically ill patient. In this way, consequences of critical illness such as acute renal failure, haemostatic failure and liver dysfunction are explored. Throughout the text, key research findings and critical care treatment strategies are referred to, applied and evaluated in the context of the given patient case study. Advanced assessment techniques are explained and the underlying pathophysiology is discussed in depth. Advanced Practice in Critical Care is an essential resource for experienced practitioners within critical care whom primarily care for patients requiring high dependency or intensive care.

About the Author
Sarah McGloin is Senior Lecturer in Acute Care at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

Anne McLeod is Senior Lecturer Critical Care at City University, UK.

Features
  • Case study focus
  • The structure of the individual chapters will largely follow the patient trajectory
  • This book will not have a systems focus. Therefore individual organ failure, for example renal failure, will not be the focus of just one chapter; however, it will be examined in the context of multi-organ failure.
  • This approach will illustrate the multi-system pathologies associated with the critically ill.
  • International appeal
  • Key areas of critical care practice will be explored in depth
  • There will be an in-depth explanation of the physiological basis to critical illness