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Opening chapters of this text for students of critical care nursing address current trends and advances that affect day-to-day clinical work, looking at issues such as ethics and caring for special populations. Remaining clinical units address alterations in the body's systems. Each body system unit covers anatomy and physiology, clinical assessment, diagnostic procedures, disorders, and therapeutic management. This fourth edition contains a revised chapter on critical nursing care featuring coverage of holistic critical nursing methodologies, and clinical applications. Urden teaches in the Adult Health Department at Indiana University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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The thoroughly revised and updated edition of this classic provides a comprehensive, modern discussion of critical care nursing. Thelan's opening chapters address trends, pressing issues, and recent advances affecting the critical care student and nurse from ethics to pain management to caring for special populations. The remaining clinical units address alterations in the body's systems. Every body system unit covers Anatomy and Physiology, Clinical Assessment, Diagnostic Procedures, Disorders, and Therapeutic Management. Important updates include a new unit of prepared, detailed care plans; an updated pain management chapter; Nursing Diagnoses boxes featuring at-a-glance NANDA-approved diagnoses, and a new MERLIN website with online Study Guide and useful links for further study.(Includes a FREE online Study Guide and MERLIN website.)(PREVIOUS EDITION AVAILABLE IN SPANISH:8481745537)
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