Thelan's critical care nursing - Linda Diann Urden

Thelan's Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management is the established
market leader in the field of critical care nursing textbooks. This textbook provides
a comprehensive, detailed discussion of critical care nursing subjects; its ten units
are organized around alterations in body systems.

The first unit of Thelan's Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management lays
the foundation of critical care nursing, providing students with background
information on issues that affect all aspects of their day to day clinical work. The
second unit deals with concerns for specific special populations that the student
may encounter in the critical care unit.

The remaining units of Thelan's Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and
Management are organized around alterations in body systems. Each unit begins
with a chapter overview of anatomy and physiology for that system. Next,
chapters on clinical assessment, complete with specially designated data
collection boxes, and chapters on diagnostic procedures are presented to guide
students through the basic clinical processes for each body system. Each unit
ends with chapters on major disorders and therapeutic management techniques.
The disorders chapters contain nursing diagnosis boxes linked to Patient
Education Boxes that help the student to apply knowledge of the diagnostic
process. The therapeutic management chapters present pharmacologic
management tables showing the dosages, action, and special considerations for
major drugs used in treating disorders for the body system discussed. These
chapters end with Clinical Applications that provide case-based examples to help
move beyond theory into practice.