Critical care nursing Book

1. Part I: The Concepts of Holism Applied to Critical Care Nursing Practice

2. Caring and Critical Thinking Within a Holistic Framework
3. The Patient's Experience with Critical Illness
4. The Family's Experience with Critical Illness
5. Impact of the Critical Care Environment on the Patient
6. Relieving Pain and Providing Comfort
7. Patient and Family Education in a Changing Health Care Environment

   Part II: Professional Practice Issues in Critical Care

8. Ethical Issues in Critical Care
9. Legal Issues in Critical Care
10. Rewards and Challenges of Critical Care Nursing

    Part III: Special Populations in Critical Care

11. The Critically Ill Pediatric Patient
12. The Critically Ill Pregnant Woman
13. The Critically Ill Older Patient
14. The Post Anesthesia Patient
15. Interfacility Transport of the Critically Ill Patient

    Part IV: Critical Care Nursing: Alteration in Body Systems Unit I: Cardiovascular System

16. Anatomy and Physiology of the Cardiovascular System
17. Patient Assessment: Cardiovascular System
18. Patient Management: Cardiovascular System
19. Common Cardiovascular Disorders
20. Heart Failure
21. Acute Myocardial Infarction
22. Cardiac Surgery
    Unit I I: Respiratory System
23. Anatomy and Physiology of the Respiratory System
24. Patient Assessment: Respiratory System
25. Patient Management: Respiratory System
26. Common Respiratory Disorders
27. Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
    Unit I II: Renal System
28. Anatomy and Physiology of the Renal System
29. Patient Assessment: Renal System
30. Patient Management: Renal System
31. Common Renal Disorders
    Unit I V: Nervous System
32. Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System
33. Patient Assessment: Nervous System
34. Patient Management: Nervous System
35. Head Injury
36. Common Neurological Disorders
37. Spinal Cord Injuries
    Unit V: Gastrointestinal System
38. Anatomy and Physiology of the Gastrointestinal System
39. Patient Assessment: Gastrointestinal System
40. Patient Management: Gastrointestinal System
41. Common Gastrointestinal Disorders
    Unit V I: Endocrine System
42. Anatomy and Physiology of the Endocrine System
43. Patient Assessment: Endocrine System
44. Common Endocrine Disorders
    Unit V II: Immune and Hematological Systems
45. Anatomy and Physiology of the Hematologic and Immune Systems
46. Patient Assessment: Hematologic and Immune Systems
47. Organ and Hemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
48. Common Immunological Disorders
49. Common Hematological Disorders

    Part V: Multisystem Dysfunction

50. Hypoperfusion States
51. Trauma
52. Burns
53. Drug Overdose and Poisoning

Appendix I: Answers to Study Questions Appendix II: ACLS Guidelines