This completely updated and revised new edition of a popular textbook 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. The book is structured in user-friendly sections, with each chapter containing "fundamental knowledge" needed to understand the chapter, a chapter introduction, "implications for practice," a chapter summary, completely up-to-date further reading, "time out" sections for consideration and revision and a clinical scenario written by Jane Roe 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.Written by a practice development nurse with a strong clinical background in intensive care nursing and experience of nursing teaching, Intensive Care Nursing is essential reading for nurses and health professionals working with high dependency patients.

Woodrow, Phillip, MA, RGN, DipN (Middlesex Univ)

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