AACN Bedside v1.0.2 [Unlocked]

AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing Pocket Handbook

Essential Data Critical Care Nurses Must Know

Endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, this go-anywhere handbook features tables and figures that encapsulate all the information required to give safe and effective care to critically ill patients.

Contents include:
• Critical Care Drug Tables
• Normal Values for Laboratory Tests and Physiologic Parameters
• Lists of Assessment Components
• Cardiac Rhythms: ECG Characteristics and Treatment Guides, Including Sample Rhythm Strips
• 12-Lead ECG Changes in Acute Myocardial Ischemia and Infarct
• Troubleshooting Guide for Hemodynamic Monitoring Equipment
• Indications for Mechanical Ventilation
• Weaning Assessment Tool
• ACLS Algorithms.

Biographical note

Marianne Chulay, RN, DNSc, FAAN, is a critical care nursing/clinical research consultant in
Chapel Hill, NC.

Suzanne Burns, RN, MSN, RRT, ACNP, CCRN, FAAN, FCCM, is a Professor of Nursing, an Advanced Practice Nurse 2 in the MICU, and the Director of the Professional Nursing Staff Organization's Clinical Research Program at the University of Virginia Health Systems in Charlottesville, Virginia.

What's New

* Added a searchable index

* Vastly improved image quality

* Decision flow charts can now be navigated one step at a time

* Improved application style and layout

* Added new thumbnails for figures index

* Various other bug fixes and stability improvements

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