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Fundamentals of Critical Care

A Textbook for Nursing and Healthcare Students
Series: Fundamentals
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Fundamentals of Critical Care offers an accessible, evidence-based introduction to critical care nursing and healthcare practice. The book covers fundamental concepts with practical applications, enhanced by vivid full-colour illustrations. It includes clinical scenarios, practice questions, and alerts to physiological and psychological risks. Topics range from care philosophies and communication to legal, ethical, and organisational influences, providing a comprehensive foundation for managing critical care patients.
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Ideal for nursing students, trainee nursing associates, and healthcare students across physiotherapy, paramedicine, and medicine, as well as professionals returning to practice seeking a well-rounded critical care resource.

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Fundamentals of Critical Care

A Textbook for Nursing and Healthcare Students

In Fundamentals of Critical Care, a team of clinicians and health educators deliver an accessible, timely, and evidence-based introduction to the role of nurses and healthcare practitioners in critical care. The book explores fundamental concepts in critical care and their implications for practice. Each chapter outlines essential knowledge necessary to understand key concepts and includes high quality, full-colour artwork to enhance learning and recall.

Readers are also provided with clinical scenarios, practice questions, and red and orange flags to indicate physiological and psychological alerts respectively. Covering a range of common and specialised disease processes and treatments requiring critical care, the book provides:

  • A thorough introduction to the critical care unit, including philosophies of care, ways of working, humanisation, and outreach
  • Comprehensive exploration of organisational influences, including political, local, national, and international influences
  • Practical discussion of legal, ethical, and professional issues, as well as evidence-based approaches to critical care
  • In-depth examination of nursing care assessment tools, nursing communication, cognition, pharmacology, and more

Perfect for nursing students and trainee nursing associates, Fundamentals of Critical Care: A Textbook for Nursing and Healthcare Students will also earn a place in the libraries of healthcare students in physiotherapy, paramedicine, medicine, and those returning to practice.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119783251

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 September 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

  • Edited by Ian Peate
  • Edited by Barry Hill
  • Edited by Barry Hill
  • Edited by Ian Peate

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 680g

Pages: 544

About the Author

Ian Peate OBE FRCN is Senior Lecturer, Roehampton University; Visiting Professor of Nursing, St George’s University of London and Kingston University London; Visiting Professor, Northumbria University; Visiting Senior Clinical Fellow, University of Hertfordshire, and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Nursing.

Barry Hill is the Director of Education (Employability) for Nursing, Midwifery and Health at Northumbria University. His academic practice includes teaching and learning as well as research which impacts on undergraduate, postgraduate and CPD programmes. He specialises in clinical education relating to acute and critical care, and advanced level practice.

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