Fast Facts for the Critical Care Nurse

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN CRITICAL CARE NURSING

1. The Critical Care Environment

2. The Electronic Medical Record and Documentation

3. Specialty Certification for Critical Care Nurses

4. Nurse Self-Care and Wellness in the ICU

Part II CRITICAL CARE BY BODY SYSTEM

5. Neurological Critical Care

6. Respiratory Critical Care

7. Cardiovascular Critical Care

8. Shock and Multiple-Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

9. Gastrointestinal Critical Care

10. Renal Critical Care

11. Endocrine Critical Care

12. Trauma Critical Care

13. Transplant Critical Care

14. Burn and Integument Critical Care

Part III PATIENT- AND FAMILY-CENTERED CARE

15. Withdrawal of Treatment and Terminal Extubation

16. Palliative Care in the ICU

17. Organ Donation

Appendix A: Common Lab Values

Appendix B: Hemodynamic Parameters

Appendix C: Common Critical Care IV Medications

Appendix D: Basic EKG Rhythm Examples

Appendix E: Respiratory and Ventilator Terminology

Appendix F: Acronyms