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Acute and Critical Care in Adult Nursing (Transforming Nursing Practice Series)
£5.80
This book will help adult nursing students to competently manage care of critically and acutely ill patients, and to recognize and deal with the early signs of deterioration. The book takes a practical real-life approach to care, with each chapter focusing on patients with specific problems, then interweaving the knowledge and skills needed to care for that patient, including the nurse’s role and responsibilities, assessment, diagnosis, planning, and management skill, related pathophysiology and collaborative team working.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (6 July 2012), Learning Matters |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 232 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0857256459 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0857256454 |
| Dimensions | 17.15 x 1.27 x 24.13 cm |
by Sarah Smith
Perfect for nursing students.
by Kindle Customer
To all nurses whether trained or a student nurse, been a nurse for a long time or just starting out. This is the book to get.
by idolgaming
I am a third year nursing student within the final 6 months of my training, and using this book for my penultimate assignment (assessing and managing an acutely ill patient)helped me to achieve a distinction. Without it, I would have not got a high mark.
The book is laid out in chapters that individually discuss a health problem with a patient and apply up-to-date knowledge to treat the patient from a nursing perspective and then analyse the health problem on its own. In conjunction with an A&P book, you can enhance your learning so much and believe it or not, actually enjoy it. An example of a chapter in the book is ‘The patient with altered consciousness’. It addresses the NMC essential skills clusters, discusses a case study and goes into depth on the causes of unconsciousness and the assessment tools you would use i.e. AVPU, GCS and even how to prevent a secondry brain injury.
As it is also a new edition, it is ideal for referencing and was recommended on my nursing program. I always hated having to read academic text books, but this one I read from start to finish and have referred back to since my assignment. I would, and already have, recommended this book to nursing students.
by froggpondde
This was a good buy. I will refer to it once I start practising. It is understandable and a good reference.
by emma robinson
This is a very easy book to understand! It is not bogged down with complicated senarios or ridiculously big words unappropriately.
Each chapter gives the relevance of the objectives to the NMC code and explains why you should know these conditions and act on them. Each chapter is based on a case study (which is also helpful for when student nurses sit their exams as the questions are usually set out in this format) at the end of the case study it asks questions about what you think is wrong with them and gives you the answers, to check your knowledge against. This is encouraging when you do realise that you actually know stuff relevant to the conditions as a basis for the additional learning this book gives you.
The book is clearly divided up into sections and information is displayed in tables to show what is normal vs abnormal, excellent for revision.
Learning matters produce fantastic up to date learning resources for student nurse, I would recommend the majority of their books concerning nursing as they are very relevant to the new nursing degree commenced in 2012.
by Anton Prasanna
Very good book
by EMB
I chose this as a book to recap after my return to practice course before starting back in ITU.
It is up to to date using evidence based practice. Indepth,, but not too complicated as a first book before embarking on something more specialised. Would suit a newly qualified nurse in critical care medicine or A& E.
I borrowed this book at first, but decided I needed to buy it!~
by Helen Crisp
Good value for money. Nice and easy to understand. This was a present but going to get a 2nd for myself.