High Acuity Nursing 5th Edition PDF Download Ebook. Kathleen Dorman Wagner, Karen L. Johnson and Melanie G. Hardin-Pierce deliver essential understanding of complex patients and instructs both students and nurses on how to provide nursing care in varied clinical settings.
Broken down into a series of learner-focused modules, this book takes complex information and presents it in smaller, more accessible chunks that promote easier mastery by readers. This book is appropriate for use in multiple educational settings, for example, nursing students, novice nurses, novice critical care nurses, and community health/home health nurse. It is also a review book for the experienced nurse wanting to update knowledge in high-acuity nursing for continuing education purposes.
Hospital staff development departments will find it useful as supplemental or required reading for nursing staff high-acuity or critical care classes. It has also been used for teaching basic pathophysiology, and as a review book for the NCLEX exam. Organization of the Text The book consists of nine parts: Special Topics, Respiration and Ventilation, Cellular Oxygenation, Perfusion, Neurologic, Metabolic, Gastrointestinal, Injury, and Life Span: Special Needs.
Parts II through VIII conclude with a nursing care module, which uses a case study problem-solving approach to test the learner's skill in applying the information presented in each part. Part I, Special Topics, is composed of four modules. The topics included in this part apply to high-acuity patients in general or focus on a special procedure, as is the case with the organ transplantation module. Module 1 addresses the psychosocial needs of high-acuity patients, their families, and the nurses who care for them.
Module 2 focuses on acute pain and the unique needs of high-acuity patients in pain assessment and management. Module 3 presents fluid and electrolyte concepts and problems. Finally, Module 4 provides an overview of organ transplantation from two perspectives: the donor and the recipient. Parts II through VIII present topics that represent the complex problems, assessments, and treatments commonly associated with the nursing care of high-acuity patients. Ten modules focus on single organ system dysfunction (e.g., brain, spinal cord, lungs, heart, blood, kidneys, liver, pancreas, gastrointestinal, and skin).
Three modules address concepts related to multiple organ dysfunction. Five modules focus on assessment (e.g., arterial blood gas analysis, hemodynamic monitoring, cardiac monitoring, responsiveness, and trauma assessment). Four modules address interventions (mechanical ventilation, management of stroke/brain attack, wound management, and trauma resuscitation).
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