Page 16 - ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing

Detailed Contents

Section 1 Scope of Critical Care 1 Section 2 Principles and Practice of
Critical Care 103
1 Scope of Critical Care Practice 3
Development of critical care nursing 3 6 Essential Nursing Care of the Critically Ill
Roles of critical care nurses 6 Patient 105
Clinical decision making 6 Personal hygiene 105
Leadership in critical care nursing 7 Eye care 107
Developing a body of knowledge 11 Oral hygiene 109
Summary 12 Patient positioning and mobilisation 110
Bowel management 115
2 Resourcing Critical Care 17 Urinary catheter care 116
Ethical allocation and utilisation of Bariatric considerations 117
resources 17
Historical influences 18 Infection control in the critical care unit: 118
general principles
Economic considerations and principles 19 Transport of critically Ill patients: general
Budget 20 principles 123
Critical care environment 22 Summary 125
Equipment 22
Staff 23 7 Psychological Care 133
Risk management 28 Anxiety 133
Measures of nursing workload or activity 30 Delirium 136
Management of pandemics 33 Sedation 138
Summary 34 Pain 141
Sleep 145
3 Quality and Safety 38 Summary 149
Quality and safety monitoring 42 8 Family and Cultural Care of the Critically Ill
Patient safety 49 Patient 156
Summary 52 Overview of models of care 157
Cultural care 161
4 Recovery and Rehabilitation 57 Religious considerations 170
ICU-acquired weakness 58 End-of-life issues and bereavement 172
Patient outcomes following a critical illness 59 Summary 173
Psychological recovery 61
Rehabilitation and mobility in ICU 66 9 Cardiovascular Assessment and Monitoring 180
Ward-based post-ICU recovery 68 Related anatomy and physiology 180
Recovery after hospital discharge 68 Assessment 190
Summary 72 Haemodynamic monitoring 195
Diagnostics 206
5 Ethical Issues in Critical Care 78 Summary 210
Principles, rights and the link with law 78 10 Cardiovascular Alterations and Management 215
End-of-life decision making 83 Coronary heart disease 215
Brain death 88 Heart failure 227
Organ donation 89 Selected cases:
Ethics in research 91 Cardiomyopathy 241
Summary 96 Hypertensive emergencies 242 xv