Critical care nursing : a holistic approach / [edited by] Patricia Gonce Morton, Dorrie Fontaine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Critical Care Nursing Practice: Promoting Excellence Through Caring, Competence, and Commitment -- 2. The Patient's Experience with Critical Illness -- 3. The Family's Experience with Critical Illness -- 4. Patient and Family Education in Critical Care -- 5. Relieving Pain and Providing Comfort -- 6. End-of-Life Issues in Critical Care -- 7. Ethical Issues in Critical Care Nursing -- 8. Legal Issues in Critical Care Nursing -- 9. Building a Professional Practice Model for Excellence in Critical Care Nursing -- 10. The Critically Ill Pediatric Patient -- 11. The Critically Ill Pregnant Woman -- 12. The Critically Ill Older Patient -- 13. The Postanesthesia Patient -- 14. Rapid Response Teams and Transport of the Critically Ill Patient -- 15. Disaster Management: Implications for the Critical Care Nurse -- 16. Anatomy and Physiology of the Cardiovascular System -- 17. Patient Assessment: Cardiovascular System -- 18. Patient Management: Cardiovascular System -- 19. Common Cardiovascular Disorders -- 20. Heart Failure -- 21. Acute Myocardial Infarction -- 22. Cardiac Surgery -- 23. Anatomy and Physiology of the Respiratory System -- 24. Patient Assessment: Respiratory System -- 25. Patient Management: Respiratory System -- 26. Common Respiratory Disorders -- 27. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome -- 28. Anatomy and Physiology of the Renal System -- 29. Patient Assessment: Renal System -- 30. Patient Management: Renal System -- 31. Renal Failure -- 32. Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System -- 33. Patient Assessment: Nervous System -- 34. Patient Management: Nervous System -- 35. Common Neurosurgical and Neurological Disorders -- 36. Traumatic Brain Injury -- 37. Spinal Cord Injury -- 38. Anatomy and Physiology of the Gastrointestinal System -- 39. Patient Assessment: Gastrointestinal System -- 40. Patient Management: Gastrointestinal System -- 41. Common Gastrointestinal Disorders -- 42. Anatomy and Physiology of the Endocrine System -- 43. Patient Assessment: Endocrine System -- 44. Common Endocrine Disorders -- 45. Anatomy and Physiology of the Hematological and Immune Systems -- 46. Patient Assessment: Hematological and Immune Systems -- 47. Organ and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation -- 48. Common Immunological Disorders -- 49. Common Hematological Disorders -- 50. Anatomy and Physiology of the Integumentary System -- 51. Patient Assessment: Integumentary System -- 52. Patient Management: Integumentary System -- 53. Burns and Common Integumentary Disorders -- 54. Shock, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome -- 55. Trauma -- 56. Drug Overdose and Poisoning -- App. 1. ACLS Guidelines.