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Nursing Series

High Acuity Nursing, 4th Edition

by Prentice Hall

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The Fourth Edition of High Acuity Nursing delivers essential understanding of complex patients and instructs both students and nurses on how to provide nursing care in varied clinical settings.

Broken down into a series of learner-focused, High Acuity Nursing takes complex information and presents it in smaller, more accessible chunks that promote easier mastery by readers. As the modules progress in difficulty, this text addresses the multiple-system problems that nurses face when caring for high acuity patients. With a focus on concepts and principles that can be applied across practice settings and patient populations, High Acuity Nursing, Fourth Edition is a learner-friendly approach that will help nurses and nursing students master the concepts and confidence necessary to succeed in today's health care settings.

Features include:

General concepts module
Relocated topics of organ donation, pain, psychosocial issues, and fluid and electrolytes to this module. Places general concept material that can be used and integrated into all modules in one place for easy cross-referencing.

Module on consciousnessformerly called Responsiveness)
Includes more pathophysiology, new diagnostic tests and drug therapies. Provides students with completely updated and expanded content.

Cerebral dysfunction module
Now addresses abnormalities related to disturbances cerebral bloodflow. Provides students with abnormal as well as normal findings.

Cardiac module
Includes expanded discussion of thrombolytics and non-invasive and semi-invasive procedures.

Self-contained modules
Allows students to use the book across courses; allows instructors to pull from the book in multiple courses.

Self-paced, interactive approach
Especially conducive to adult learners. Students can work at their own pace for better mastery of key concepts and principles.

Authors: Kathleen Dorman Wagner, Karen Johnson, and Pamela Stinson Kidd
Published: July 2005
ISBN: 0-13-124508-2
924 Pages

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