Critical Care Nursing

by Sheila Melander, Linda Bucher RN PhD CEN CNE, Sheila Drake Melander RN DSN ACNP-C FCCM

This new textbook explores the essential concepts that form the basis of critical care nursing practice in all settings. Built on a strong medical-surgical nursing foundation, it examines the impact of current trends in health care on the critical care nursing field and prepares nurses to meet the resultant challenges.An introductory unit investigates critical care across the healthcare continuum ethical/legal issues the professional role of the critical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721669174
• ISBN13: 9780721669175
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 1224 Pages
• Weight: 6.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Gale D. RN Georgia

I am a RN with 11 years experience. I have worked in critical care units for 4 years; CCU, SICU, MICU, including open heart units and neuro untis. I have been wanting to purchase a good reference book to read through and keep my knowledge up to date. I found a lot of review books for CCRN, etc.; but no basic critical care book that gave more depth and explantions for a better understanding. I am very pleased with this book and am so happy that I chose it. It is easy to read, but not repetetive and boring. It gives the reader a full understanding of the material. I plan to read this whole book in preparation for the CCRN exam and feel it will benefit my nursing career greatly by giving me a greater confidence in my knowledge base and nursing judgements.

An excellent resource!

I had been out of critical care for some time and found the book extremely useful in updating my knowledge. It is well-referenced, clearly written and interesting.