This completely updated and revised edition is specially written for qualified nurses working in intensive care nursing units. Fully comprehensive and developed to be as user-friendly as possible it contains four new chapters and valuable, updated and new clinical scenarios to aid learning. Intensive Care Nursing is structured in user-friendly sections. Each chapter contains ‘fundamental knowledge’ needed to understand the chapter, an introduction, ‘implications for practice’, a chapter summary, completely updated further reading, ‘time out’ sections for revision and a clinical scenario with questions included. This second edition has been fully developed and reviewed by practitioners and teachers, as well as a senior pharmacist and covers:
■ patient-focused issues of bedside nursing ■ the technical knowledge necessary to safely care for ICU patients ■ the more common and specialised disease processes and treatments encountered ■ how nurses can use their knowledge and skills to develop their own and others’ practice.