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Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient, 3rd Edition

ISBN: 978-1-118-27615-0

March 2012

Wiley-Blackwell

384 pages

Description

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient is an invaluable, accessible guide to caring for critically ill patients on the general ward. Now fully updated and improved throughout, this well-established and handy reference guide text assumes no prior knowledge and equips students and newly-qualified staff with the clinical skills and knowledge they need to confidently monitor patients at risk, identify key priorities, and provide prompt and effective care.

This new edition includes the following five new chapters:

  • Monitoring the critically ill child
  • Monitoring the critically ill pregnant patient
  • Monitoring the patient with infection and related systemic inflammatory response
  • Monitoring a patient receiving a blood transfusion
  • Monitoring pain
About the Author
Philip Jevon is Resuscitation Officer/Clinical Skills Lead, Manor Hospital, Walsall. He is Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Birmingham Medical School, and Editor of The British Journal of Resuscitation

Beverley Ewens is Nurse Manager in Critical Care at Joondalup Health Campus, Perth, Western Australia. She is an ALS instructor and Course Director for the ALERT course at Walsall.

Features
  • Third edition of a successful clinical text
  • A practical, how-to approach to monitoring patients at risk of deterioration
  • Applicable to all nurses working on the ward setting, not just critical/intensive care nurses
  • Case studies and examples used to encourage reader to apply their knowledge to a practical setting
  • Suitable for nursing students as well as the newly qualified nurse