High-Acuity Nursing

By Melanie Hardin-Pierce, Kathleen Dorman Wagner, Karen Johnson, et al.

Book Overview

For courses in critical care, acute care nursing, and as a supplemental text in advanced medical-surgical nursing. Complete guide to high-acuity nursing in all care settings High-Acuity Nursing provides a comprehensive knowledge set needed to care for adult patients with complex, unpredictable conditions across settings, from high-skill, long-term facilities to critical care units. Focusing on the relationship between pathophysiology and the nursing process, the text encourages students to think critically to reach optimal clinical decisions for high-acuity patients. All chapters in the 7th edition have been updated and many have been reorganized and expanded. A new chapter focuses on palliative care and end-of-life issues, and new features address quality and safety, along with genetic considerations. High-Acuity Nursing , 7th Edition , is also available via Pearson eText, a simple-to-use, mobile, personalized reading experience that lets instructors connect with and motivate students -- right in their eTextbook.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0134459296
• ISBN13: 9780134459295
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 1080 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.5" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

It is an excellent book for nursingn students

Detailed exclusive explanations of medical concept. It is also easy to carry and less expessive as well. I hate Smelxzer after I got this book. Adu.

Great book!!

This book is the single most helpful book I have had in my Level-II nursing courses. We're using Lehne and Monahan as main text books, but this high acuity nursing is really stellar and explains things so much more clearly and concisely. Love it!

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Excellent training resource for new graduates

Filled with self paced modules applicable to the critical care, emergency room, and medical-surical setting, High Acuity Nursing is an excellent clinical resource to supplement orientation & training programs of new graduate nurses. Organized by body system, it integrates A & P, clinical nursing applications, and critical thinking all in one. I used it with my new graduates when orienting them to the IMCU, ED, and med-surg units. They found the information helpful in tying in the clinical content they were learning during orientation and the practical application of it. They rated the self learning modules highly in the evaluations. Internal transfers into the ICU have also found it to be helpful when orienting to that new setting.