Clinical Wisdom and Interventions in Critical Care: A Thinking-In-Action Approach

by Daphne Stannard, Patricia E. Benner, Patricia Hooper-Kyriakidis

Book Overview

This insightful new resource examines how expert critical care nurses use scientific knowledge, professional experience, and a careful attention to each patient's changing condition to provide excellent nursing care. Based on descriptive interviews and observational studies of 205 nurses, it helps readers at all levels develop the critical thinking, reasoning, judgement, and intervention skills they need to become superior critical care nurses.specific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721675115
• ISBN13: 9780721675114
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 588 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful reference book

I bought this book as a registered nurse that is fairly new to the critical care field, and the first night I had it, it came in handy. By reading a few pages before going to work about being a "detective" to find out the cause of changes in a pt's condition, I was able to avert a more serious complication. I enjoyed the narrative descriptions by nurses in various settings of the critical care field, how the situations were handled, and how they could have improved them. I highly recommend this book not only for the veteran nurse, but for all the new nurses out there!! It will better your thinking skills, and improve your care overall!!