ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing

Description

Developed in conjunction with the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN), the text has been written and edited by the most senior and experienced critical care nursing clinicians and academics across the region. ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing is a resource that will foster the development of skilled and confident critical care nurses. This comprehensive text provides detailed coverage of a number of specialty areas within critical care nursing including intensive care, emergency nursing, cardiac nursing, neuroscience nursing and acute care. It will encourage students to be reflective practitioners, ethical decision-makers and providers of evidence-based care.

Key Features

• Written by expert clinicians, academics, and educators
• Pedagogically rich chapters with learning objectives, key terms, case studies, practice tips, article abstracts, learning activities, research vignettes
• Heavily illustrated and referenced
• Reflects current clinical practice, policies, procedures and guidelines
• The text has a patient-centred approach and will provide students with a sound knowledge base and critical thinking skills
• Image bank of all illustrations from the text will be available to lecturers for teaching

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Readership

Post-graduate and undergraduate critical care nursing students

Table of Contents

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Author Information

By Doug Elliott, RN, PhD, Professor of Nursing in the Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Leanne Aitken, RN, ICCert, BHS(Nurs) Hons, GCertMgt, GDipScM(ClinEpi), PhD, FRCNA, Professor of Critical Care Nursing, Griffith University and Princess Alexandra Hospital, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia; and Wendy Chaboyer, RN, BSc(Nurs), MNurs(Alta), PhD(UQ), Director, Research Centre for Clinical Practice Innovation, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia