AACN ESSENTIALS OF PROGRESSIVE CARE NURSING 5E

Written by top clinical experts, “AACN Essentials of Progressive Care Nursing,” 5th Ed. offers succinct, comprehensive guidance for delivering the most current treatments in the care of critically ill adult patients and their families.

This engaging, evidence-based guide features everything nurses and students need to know to provide safe and effective progressive care. Endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), this peer-reviewed resource covers the essentials for the care of progressive care adult patients and their families.

The book features helpful tables and algorithms as well as a practical, building-block organization that begins with the basics before logically proceeding to more complex concepts. Whether you’re going through orientation on the hospital floor or you’re enrolled in critical care courses, “AACN Essentials of Progressive Care Nursing” helps you care for every patient across the spectrum of progressive and critical care.

“AACN Essentials of Progressive Care Nursing,” 5th Ed. is divided into four sections:

The Essentials: Presents information you need to provide safe, competent nursing care to the majority of progressive care adult patients, with a wide range of underlying diagnoses

Pathological Conditions: Covers pathologic conditions and management strategies commonly encountered among progressive care adult patients

Advanced Concepts: Offers advanced progressive care concepts to support the delivery of specialized care

Key Reference Information: Features normal laboratory and diagnostic values, summary tables of cardiac rhythms, ECG characteristics and treatment guides, and new crisis standards of care content