Critical Care Manual of Clinical Procedures and Competencies
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Critical Care Manual of Clinical Procedures and Competencies
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Overview
The Critical Care Manual of Clinical Procedures and Competencies is the landmark new clinical skills resource designed for healthcare practitioners caring for critically ill patients. The Manual offers a complete, evidence-based guide to clinical skills procedures in critical care, addressing the needs of both novice and expert practitioners and recognising the roles that different disciplines contribute to the provision of effective care.
The Manual provides guidelines on core critical care procedures based on the best available evidence for each procedure and includes a patient-centred competency framework, as well as fundamental and specific competencies to enable practitioners to assess their abilities and expertise. Each chapter provides a comprehensive overview, beginning with basic principles and progressing to more complex ideas, to support practitioners to develop their knowledge, skills and competencies in critical care.
An essential clinical companion for all healthcare practitioners caring for critically ill patients, the Manual is the definitive resource on critical care clinical skills procedures.
Key features
- Provides essential evidence-based procedures for all critical care practitioners
- Includes a robust competency framework and fundamental competencies that can be used by all disciplines
- Provides specific competencies for critical care procedures
- Underpins best practice by drawing on the best available evidence
- Follows a systematic approach to providing care
- Facilitates the development of critical care knowledge and skills
- Provides benchmarks to help assess and develop clinical practice
- Indicates areas where specialist training is needed
- Endorsed by the British Association of Critical Care Nurses
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781118496138 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication date: | 05/15/2013 |
| Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 592 |
| File size: | 20 MB |
| Note: | This product may take a few minutes to download. |
About the Author
John Albarran has 30 years experience as a practitioner, educator and researcher. During this time he has served on the British Association of Critical Care Nurses, European Federation of Critical Care Nursing Associations (EfCCNa) and was a founder member of the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses. Dr Albarran has published widely including a number of textbooks. He co-edits Nursing in Critical Care and has been awarded two nurse fellowships from the European Society of Cardiology and EfCCNa for outstanding and distinctive contributions to cardiac and critical care nursing.
Jane Mallett, Consultant in Health Care DevelopmentDr Jane Mallett trained at Guy's Hospital, London in 1980. Since that time she has worked as a practitioner, andhas had lead roles in education, research and practice development. Dr Mallett also jointly edited three editions of The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual for Clinical Nursing Procedures (1992, 1996 and 2000) and The Royal Marsden Hospital Handbook of Wound Management in Cancer Care. More recently she has been joint consultancy lead for the development of the national Essence of Care 2010.She has a BSc in Human Biology, MSc in Social Research Methods and PhD in Nursing.
Table of Contents
List of contributorsForeword by Julian Bion
Foreword by Ged Williams
Preface
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1 Scope and delivery of evidence-based care John W. Albarran and Annette Richardson
Chapter 2 Competency-based practice Julie Scholes, Jo Richmond and Jane Mallett
Chapter 3 Recognizing and managing the critically ill and ‘at risk’ patient on a ward Mandy Odell
Chapter 4 Admitting a critically ill patient Vanessa Gibson and Karen Hill
Chapter 5 Assessment, monitoring and interventions for the respiratory system Maureen Coombs, Judy Dyos, David Waters and Ian Nesbitt
Chapter 6 Monitoring of the cardiovascular system: insertion and assessment Alan T. Platt, Sarah Conolly and Jonathan Round
Chapter 7 Titration of inotropes and vasopressors Kirsty Rutledge
Chapter 8 Assessment and support of hydration and nutrition status and care Kirsty Rutledge and Ian Nesbitt
Chapter 9 Continuous renal replacement therapies: assessment, monitoring and care Annette Richardson and Jayne Whatmore
Chapter 10 Assessment and monitoring of analgesia, sedation, delirium and neuromuscular blockade levels and care Phil Laws and Nicola Rudall
Chapter 11 Assessment and monitoring of neurological status Margaret A. Douglas and Sarah E.C. Platt
Chapter 12 Assessment and care of tissue viability, and mouth and eye hygiene needs Philip Woodrow, Judy Elliott and Pauline Beldon
Chapter 13 Assessment of sleep and sleep promotion Annette Richardson, Micheala Allsop and Elaine Coghill
Chapter 14 Physical mobility and exercise interventions for critically ill patients D.J. McWilliams and Amanda Thomas
Chapter 15 Transfer of the critically ill patient Andrew Baker and Simon M. Whiteley
Chapter 16 Rehabilitation from critical illness Catherine I. Plowright and Christina Jones
Chapter 17 Withdrawal of treatment and end of life care for the critically ill patient Natalie A. Pattison
Chapter 18 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation Jackie S. Younker and Jasmeet Soar
References and further reading
Useful websites
Index