Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Sara J. White and Desiree Tait -- Humanized care and clinical decision making in critical care / Sara J. White and Desiree Tait -- What triggers clinical illness? / Desire Tait and Sara J. White -- Respiratory failure / Sara J. White and Fleur Lowe -- Haemodynamic instability / Jonathan Branney and Debbie Branney -- Cardiac failure / Sara J. White and Fleur Lowe -- Acute kidney injury / Desiree Tait -- Gastrointestinal disorder / Sara J. White and Fleur Lowe -- Endocrine disorders / Sara J. White and Fleur Lowe -- Neurological damage / Sara J. White and Fleur Lowe -- Legal and ethical issues in critical care / Mark Gagan and Desiree Tait -- The impact of critical illness on recovery and rehabilitations / Desiree Tait and Sara J. White -- Conclusion: The way forward / Sara J. White and Desiree Tait

White and Tait provide a much-needed introduction to the complex field of critical care nursing. Reacting to different inquiries into standards of care, White and Tait's humanizing approach to critical care places equal emphasis on the head, hand, and heart to show how each maps to knowledge, evidence, and ethics. The book's depths of clinical knowledge is built through extended care studies of critically ill patients with a variety of needs. This breadth, along with the authors' unique approach prepares students for assignments in critical care, clinical decision-making and practice--From publisher's description

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