May Wyckoff

Critical Care: Concepts, Role, and Practice for the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner May Wyckoff

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Jacket Description/Back: "Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award for 2009! Designated a Doody's Core Title! """There is little doubt that every ACNP in practice or in training will want a copy of this reference in their lab coat pocket."" " --Ric Cuming, RN, MSN, EdD (c), CNOR, NEA-BCChief Nursing Officer Jackson Memorial Hospital"""Long overdue-This comprehensive critical care text will fill the void, especially for nurses advancing from BSN to Advanced Practice. The authors have covered all the basics and produced a text that provides a well-rounded knowledge base for critical care.""" -Jeanne H. Siegel, PhD, ARNPUniversity of Miami School of Nursing and Health StudiesThis book defines what it means to be a nurse in critical care. With this text, Acute Care Nurse Practitioners (ACNPs) will learn what to expect in the critical care unit, and how to manage various complications with patients in acute and intensive care settings. Significant emphasis is given to the complex pathophysiology and appropriate management of common problems encountered in the critical care environment, including trauma, infections, and disease. One chapter is also dedicated to the medical, legal, and ethical aspects of critical care. "Critical Care" is thus the must-have reference for graduate students as well as for practicing ACPNs. Key topics include: The role of the ACPN in acute and critical care Pulmonary management Cardiac concepts in acute care settings Managing liver, kidney, and kidney pancreas transplant in the ICU Burn management Multisystem organ failure End-of-life and palliative care Family-centered care Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award for 2009! "Table of Contents: Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Acute Care Nurse Practitioner: An Established Role in Acute and Critical Care / Ruth M. Kleinpell -- Chapter 2. Legal Issues for Critical Care Advanced Practice Nurses / Anna G. Small -- Chapter 3. Critical Care Pulmonary Management / Suzanne M. Burns -- Chapter 4. Cardiac Concepts in Acute Care / Richard B. Silverman, Carolyn Therese LePage -- Chapter 5. Neurological Critical Care / Filissa M. Caserta, Marie S. Depew, Jennifer L. Moran -- Chapter 6. Managing Liver, Kidney, and Kidney-Pancreas Transplant in the ICU / Mary Wyckoff, Valerie Wells, Akin Tekin -- Chapter 7. Care of the Critically Injured Patient / Scott Gmora, Joseph P. Corallo -- Chapter 8. Burn Management / Robin Prater Varas, Olga Quintana, Doris Braddy -- Chapter 9. Multisystem Organ Failure / Barbara A. McLean -- Chapter 10. Nutrition, Fluids, and Electrolytes in the Critically Ill Patient / Jennifer Lefton -- Chapter 11. Endocrine Emergencies / Barbara A. McLean -- Chapter 12. Infection and Antibiotic Use in the Critically Ill Patient / Nicholas Namias, Douglas Houghton -- Chapter 13. End-of-Life and Palliative Care / Douglas Houghton -- Chapter 14. Procedures in Critical Care / Amanda J. Morehouse, Mary Wyckoff, John Mason -- Chapter 15. Sedation and Analgesia in the ICU / Sean M. Quinn, Miguel A. Cobas -- Chapter 16. Family-Centered Care / Carolyn Therese LePage -- Index. Publisher Marketing: Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title! Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award of 2009! ""There is little doubt that every ACNP in practice or in training will want a copy of this reference in their lab coat pocket." " --Ric Cuming, RN, MSN, EdD (c), CNOR, NEA-BCChief Nursing Officer Jackson Memorial Hospital""Long overdue-This comprehensive critical care text will fill the void, especially for nurses advancing from BSN to Advanced Practice. The authors have covered all the basics and produced a text that provides a well-rounded knowledge base for critical care."" -Jeanne H. Siegel, PhD, ARNPUniversity of Miami School of Nursing and Health StudiesThis book defines what it means to be a nurse in critical care. With this text, Acute Care Nurse Practitioners (ACNPs) will learn what to expect in the critical care unit, and how to manage various complications with patients in acute and intensive care settings. Significant emphasis is given to the complex pathophysiology and appropriate management of common problems encountered in the critical care environment, including trauma, infections, and disease. One chapter is also dedicated to the medical, legal, and ethical aspects of critical care. "Critical Care" is thus the must-have reference for graduate students as well as for practicing ACPNs. Key topics include: The role of the ACPN in acute and critical care Pulmonary management Cardiac concepts in acute care settings Managing liver, kidney, and kidney pancreas transplant in the ICU Burn management Multisystem organ failure End-of-life and palliative care Family-centered care Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award for 2009!