Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient (Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses)

Philip Jevon, Beverley Ewens, Jagtar Singh Pooni

ISBN 10: 1444337475 / ISBN 13: 9781444337471

Published by Wiley-Blackwell 2012-03-09, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient (Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses)
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell 2012-03-09
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1444337475
• ISBN 13: 9781444337471
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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.