- NEW! Content on the implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic for critical care nursing includes new content on proning as a standard critical care procedure and expanded coverage of nursing self-care — including new Nursing Self-Care boxes, consistent with the 2021 Future of Nursing report.
- NEW! Expanded tools for the Next-Generation NCLEX® (NGN) Exam includes more coverage of the six cognitive skills of NCSBN’s Clinical Judgment Measurement Model, with new use of the cognitive skills along with nursing process terminology, expanded use of clinical judgment terminology, and expanded, newly interactive NGN-style case studies on the Evolve website.
- NEW! Updated content reflects the latest evidence-based developments as well as national and international guidelines.
- NEW! Integration of the 2021 AACN Essentials features special emphasis on Clinical Judgment and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, including the use of non-gendered language and illustrations with enhanced diversity.
- NEW! Key Points bulleted lists reinforce the most important content in each chapter.
1 Overview of Critical Care Nursing
2 Patient and Family Response to the Critical Care Experience
3 Ethical and Legal Issues in Critical Care Nursing
4 Palliative and End-of-Life Care
5 Organ Donation
6 Comfort and Sedation
7 Nutritional Therapy
8 Dysrhythmia Interpretation and Management
9 Hemodynamic Monitoring
10 Ventilatory Assistance
11 Rapid Response Teams and Code Management
12 Shock, Sepsis, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
13 Cardiovascular Alterations
14 Nervous System Alterations
15 Acute Respiratory Failure
16 Acute Kidney Injury
17 Hematological and Immune Disorders
18 Gastrointestinal Alterations
19 Endocrine Alterations
20 Trauma and Surgical Management
21 Burns
