A practical guide to the clinical decision-making skills essential for effective respiratory care practice across the continuum of health care. Features actual clinical cases for critical analysis, patient assessment, clinical application, decision-making, and discussion. Also addresses managed care, health care costs, ethics, and alternative site care.
Contemporary and inclusive, Critical Thinking in Respiratory Care features:
* Problem-based learning in a variety of real-life clinical cases
* Case-based exercises that build skills in patient assessment, critical analysis, therapeutic choice, and knowledge put into action
* Systematic strategies for assessing what is known, and what needs to be known and how to make treatment decisions
* Real-life clinical cases of AIDS and TB, chronic bronchitis and emphysema, asthma, cystic fibrosis, trauma, myocardial infarction, and many others
* Covering conditions that range from the neonatal to the adult
* Solid foundation in communication and negotiation skills, ethical and cost considerations, patient education, resource and time management, and other essential skills