PART I: THE CONCEPT OF HOLISM APPLIED TO CRITICAL CARE NURSING PRACTICE

1. Critical Care Nursing Practice: An Integration of Caring, Competence, and Commitment to Excellence
2. The Patient’s Experience With Critical Illness
3. The Family’s Experience With Critical Illness
4. Impact of the Critical Care Environment on the Patient
5. Relieving Pain and Providing Comfort
6. Patient and Family Education

PART II: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE ISSUES IN CRITICAL CARE

7. Ethical Issues in Critical Care
8. Legal Issues in Critical Care
9. Genetic Issues in Critical Care
10. Building a Professional Practice Model for Critical Care Nursing Excellence

PART III: SPECIAL POPULATIONS IN CRITICAL CARE

11. The Critically Ill Pediatric Patient
12. The Critically Ill Pregnant Woman
13. The Critically Ill Older Patient
14. The Postanesthesia Patient
15. Interfacility Transport of the Critically Ill Patient

PART IV: CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

16. Anatomy and Physiology of the Cardiovascular System
17. Patient Assessment: Cardiovascular System
18. Patient Management: Cardiovascular System
19. Common Cardiovascular Disorders
20. Heart Failure
21. Acute Myocardial Infarction
22. Cardiac Surgery

PART V: RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

23. Anatomy and Physiology of the Respiratory System
24. Patient Assessment: Respiratory System
25. Patient Management: Respiratory System
26. Common Respiratory Disorders
27. Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome

PART VI: RENAL SYSTEM

28. Anatomy and Physiology of the Renal System
29. Patient Assessment: Renal System
30. Patient Management: Renal System
31. Common Renal Disorders

PART VII: NERVOUS SYSTEM

32. Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System
33. Patient Assessment: Nervous System
34. Patient Management: Nervous System
35. Common Neurological Disorders
36. Head Injury
37. Spinal Cord Injury

PART VIII: GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM

38. Anatomy and Physiology of the Gastrointestinal System
39. Patient Assessment: Gastrointestinal System
40. Patient Management: Gastrointestinal System
41. Common Gastrointestinal Disorders

PART IX: ENDOCRINE SYSTEM

42 Anatomy and Physiology of the Endocrine System
43 Patient Assessment: Endocrine System
44 Common Endocrine Disorders

PART X: HEMATOLOGICAL AND IMMUNE SYSTEMS

45. Anatomy and Physiology of the Hematological and Immune Systems
46. Patient Assessment: Hematological and Immune Systems
47. Organ and Hemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
48. Common Immunological Disorders
49. Common Hematological Disorders

PART XI: INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM

50. Anatomy and Physiology of the Integumentary System
51. Patient Assessment: Integumentary System
52. Patient Management: Integumentary System
53. Burns

PART XII: MULTISYSTEM DYSFUNCTION

54. Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome, and Shock
55. Trauma
56. Drug Overdose and Poisoning

Appendix 1: ACLS Guidelines
Appendix 2: Clinical Applicability Challenges: Answer Key to Study Questions, with Rationales

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