Fundamentals of Critical Care (eBook)

A Textbook for Nursing and Healthcare Students

Ian Peate, Barry Hill (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781119783282 (ISBN)

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Fundamentals of Critical Care

Fundamentals of Critical Care

A Textbook for Nursing and Healthcare Students

In Fundamentals of Critical Care, a team of clinicians and health educators deliver an accessible, timely, and evidence-based introduction to the role of nurses and healthcare practitioners in critical care. The book explores fundamental concepts in critical care and their implications for practice. Each chapter outlines essential knowledge necessary to understand key concepts and includes high quality, full-colour artwork to enhance learning and recall.

Readers are also provided with clinical scenarios, practice questions, and red and orange flags to indicate physiological and psychological alerts respectively. Covering a range of common and specialised disease processes and treatments requiring critical care, the book provides:

• A thorough introduction to the critical care unit, including philosophies of care, ways of working, humanisation, and outreach
• Comprehensive exploration of organisational influences, including political, local, national, and international influences
• Practical discussion of legal, ethical, and professional issues, as well as evidence-based approaches to critical care
• In-depth examination of nursing care assessment tools, nursing communication, cognition, pharmacology, and more

Perfect for nursing students and trainee nursing associates, Fundamentals of Critical Care: A Textbook for Nursing and Healthcare Students will also earn a place in the libraries of healthcare students in physiotherapy, paramedicine, medicine, and those returning to practice.

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Ian Peate OBE FRCN is Senior Lecturer, Roehampton University; Visiting Professor of Nursing, St George's University of London and Kingston University London; Visiting Professor, Northumbria University; Visiting Senior Clinical Fellow, University of Hertfordshire, and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Nursing.

Barry Hill is the Director of Education (Employability) for Nursing, Midwifery and Health at Northumbria University. His academic practice includes teaching and learning as well as research which impacts on undergraduate, postgraduate and CPD programmes. He specialises in clinical education relating to acute and critical care, and advanced level practice.

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Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

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1. The critical care unit

2. Organisational influences

3. Legal and ethical issues

4. Professional issues in critical care

5. Using an evidence-based approach

6. Nursing care

7. Skin integrity

8. Shock

9. Communication

10. Electronic health records

11. Pharmacology

12. Anaesthesia/sedation

13. Medicines management and drug calculations

14. Neurological

15. Cognition

16. Respiratory care: intubation and mechanical ventilation

17. Lung function in critical care

18. Cardiac physiology

19. Cardiovascular

20. Fluid and electrolytes in critically ill patients

21. Emergencies/recognising and responding to CPR

22. The gastrointestinal system

23. Nutrition in critical care

24. Renal and renal function

25. Endocrine in critical care

26. Haematological issues and the immune system

27. Musculoskeletal considerations in critical care

28. Burn care within a critical care setting

29. Maternal health

30. Critical care transfers

31. Rehabilitation after critical illness

32. Dying and death

Index

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Contributors

Aileen Aherne, RN, Dip HE (Nursing), BHSc Nursing, MSc Nursing Studies, MSc Advanced Clinical Practice, V300
Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Aileen’s interests lie in hepatology, nursing Science and Oncology Aileen has skills and expertise in nursing, palliative medicine, and clinical nursing. She works in the Department of General Surgery at Manchester Royal Infirmary.

Pamela Arasen, RN, FHEA, BScN in Cardiorespiratory Care, MSc in Advanced Practice in Critical care, PGCE
Senior Lecturer in Critical Care Nursing, University of West London (UWL).

Pamela started her career as a registered nurse after completing a Diploma in Nursing at St Bartholomew School of Nursing, City University in 2005. She spent a few years working in Acute Medical/Surgical wards and A&E, continued her education pathway in a BSc in Cardiorespiratory Care, before moving to Critical Care at West Middlesex University Hospital. She specialised in the Critical Care Outreach Team at King’s College Hospital, after completing her MSc in Advanced Practice in Critical Care in 2015. In 2018, she was appointed as a Lecturer Practitioner in Intensive Care at UWL teaching on the ITU course. She had a joint appointment at the London Northwest Healthcare Trust as the Lead in Education in Intensive Care Nursing, where she introduced the inhouse Intensive Care Adult course with UWL partnership during the COVID 19 pandemic. After the completion of the Academic Professional Apprenticeship, she works as a Senior Lecturer in Critical Care at the UWL, teaching in the Continuous Professional Development modules. Pamela’s special interests are Critical Care, Education and Career Development in Nursing.

Leonie Armstrong, RGN, NMP, Ma Ethics in Cancer and Palliative Care

Leonie qualified as a registered general nurse in 1994. She has worked in the speciality of palliative care for over 25 years in hospices and hospital palliative care services in the North East. Her current role is clinical lead nurse for hospital palliative care at Northumbria specialised emergency care hospital.

Joe Box, RN, BSc, MSc (Advanced Clinical Practice), V300

Joe has worked in emergency surgical admissions for 15 years, initially in Liverpool and Melbourne, before settling in Manchester. Whilst a ward‐based nurse, he facilitated the student nurse programme and received multiple award nominations for mentor of the year and then placement provider of the year. Going back to university to complete a MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice after 10 years of experience, he now works in a Nursing Times award winning team of emergency general surgical Advanced Nurse Practitioners and retains his passion for educating existing staff and the next generation of nurses.

Mark Cannan, MSc, BSc (Hons), Dip HE
Advanced Critical Care Practitioner, Intensive Care, North Cumbria University Hospitals Foundation Trust, UK

Mark entered the health care profession as an Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) in 2013 with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), having witnessed the work of an ODP first hand in the theatres of Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. On qualification, he rotated through anaesthetic and scrub practice, in both elective and emergency surgical procedures in two busy district general hospitals. Whilst qualifying with a diploma, he continued in education by completing an Honours Degree in Acute and Critical Care at the University of Cumbria, which is where he discovered the Advanced Critical Care Practitioner (ACCP) role. Having excluded career progression in managerial or educational roles, the ACCP role seemed to best fit his aspirations by being retained at the bedside, performing clinical duties. Mark started his ACCP training with Northumbria University in 2017 and qualified in 2019 with a Post Graduate Diploma and works across two general intensive care units, which increased to four during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Mark has since completed his Master’s Degree and has specialist interests in advanced airway management, regional anaesthesia and transfer of the critically ill patient. He is also on the national working group for legislation change in allowing ODPs who have progressed into advanced practice the ability to undertake non‐medical prescribing.

Tracey Carrott, MA, RGN

Tracey qualified as a Registered General Nurse some 40 years ago (1982) and she has worked in the Northeast of England the entire time. Tracey have witnessed many changes to the provision of health care during this time, however, she is still as passionate about the role as a nurse as she was and when she began nurse training. Tracey’s nursing background and clinical expertise is that of scientific paradigm having predominantly worked within the biomedical domain of critical care. Her current role is that of a Specialist Nurse in Organ Donation (SNOD). This niche role involves promoting and raising awareness about the value of organ and tissue donation. Fundamentally, she has the opportunity to be able to empower a family and to support them should their loved one become an organ and tissue donor. She has been in this role for 12 years although now work part‐time. Prior to becoming a SNOD she worked as a nurse in Cardio‐thoracic critical care and as a nurse practitioner in an accident and emergency department. She also managed a Coronary Care Unit for several years. Tracy has always had an avid interest in education and posess an MA in Advanced Practice. She is also a Registered NMC Lecturer Practitioner, having achieved a Post Graduate Diploma with Commendation in Health and Social Care Practice, Education and Development.

Iain Carstairs, MBBS, BSc (Hons) Pharmacology and Neuroscience
Specialist Grade Doctor in Anaesthetics.

Iain studied medicine at Newcastle University and practiced his early career in the speciality of Emergency Medicine at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. In 2009 he transferred to the speciality of anaesthesia within the Northern Deanery and currently works as a Specialty Grade Anaesthetist at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. In his current role Iain provides planned and emergency care across a range of clinical settings that includes theatres, obstetrics, pre‐assessment and CPEX, and critical care to patients of all age ranges. He supports the clinical education and development of many members of the multidisciplinary team including trainee doctors, ODPs and Physician Associates. Iain is a member of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland and an SAS member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

Victoria Clemett, PhD, RN (adult), BNurs, FHEA

Victoria began her nursing a career as a healthcare assistant before completed her registered nurse (RN) training at The University of Birmingham, UK in 2005. Following her junior staff nurse rotations at The University Hospital Birmingham, she specialised in burns and reconstructive practice surgery. Victoria relocated to the southeast and moved into research and education. Victoria is an NMC registered teacher and has several years’ experience in nurse education. Special interests include wound care, clinical decision making, translational research and simulated learning.

Sarah Crowe, MN, PMD‐NP(F), CNCC(C), NP
Critical Care Nurse Practitioner, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Fraser Health
Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia
Instructor, Critical Care Speciality Nursing Program, British Columbia Institute of Technology
President, Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses Adjunct Professor, UBC School of Nursing
Sarah began her nursing career at Surrey Memorial Hospital in 2000 in the Emergency department before transitioning to critical care in 2004. She completed dual specialty certification in both Emergency and Critical Care Nursing. She went on to complete a Master’s of Nursing in 2010, and a post‐Master’s graduate diploma in Nurse Practitioner in 2018. Her key areas of research and interest are in ICU survivorship, chronically critically ill patients, and supporting the mental health and practice of critical care nurses. She has received several research grants for her work. Sarah is currently the Vice President of the Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses.

Stuart Cox, BSc (Hons), MSc (ACCP), mFICMAdvanced Critical Care Practitioner, University Hospitals Southampton NHS & Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance.
Stuart works as an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner (ACCP) at University Hospitals Southampton NHS & Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance. Prior to this he was employed as a Senior Charge Nurse ICU at Southampton and Senior Nurse CEGA Air Ambulance. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Nursing Science and completed his MSc in ACCP in 2018. Stuart is a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), and an ACCP with membership with the faculty of intensive care medicine (FICM).

Sadie Diamond‐Fox, MCP ACCP (mFICM), BSc (Hons) RN, PGCAHP, NMP (V300), FHEA

Sadie Diamond‐Fox graduated from Northampton University in 2008 with a BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing and immediately began her critical care career, initially working at Papworth and Cambridge Hospitals. In 2012 she moved to Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals to commence training as an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner, completing a Masters of Clinical Practice in Advanced Critical Care Practice (ACCP) in 2015 and was awarded ACCP membership to the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine in 2016. Sadie has since continued to work clinically as an ACCP alongside...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.8.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Fundamentals
• Reihe/Serie: Fundamentals
• Reihe/Serie: Fundamentals
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Schlagworte: critical care ethical issues • critical care ethics • critical care influences • critical care nursing • critical care nursing communication • critical care nursing concepts • critical care units • General Clinical Nursing • Healthcare Ethics • Intensive/Critical Care • Intensivpflege • Klinische Krankenpflege • Krankenpflege • Medical Science • Medizin • nursing • Nursing code of conduct • nursing ethics • Nursing Special Topics • Spezialthemen Krankenpflege
• ISBN-13: 9781119783282 / 9781119783282