Critical Care Nursing: the Humanised Approach
- 280 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Critical Care Nursing: the Humanised Approach
About This Book
Tait and White provide a much-needed introduction to the complex field of critical care nursing for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Covering the essential aspects of critical care nursing, students are asked to consider the biopsychosocial triggers of critical illness, and are walked through a number of different patient scenarios. Reacting to the Francis Report and other inquiries into standards of care, Tait and White's humanising approach to critical care places equal emphasis on the ?head, hand and heart? knowledge; evidence, technical and ethical.
The book's depth of clinical knowledge is built and cemented through extended case studies of critically ill patients with a variety of needs. This breadth, along with the author's unique approach prepares students for courses and assignments in critical care, as well as preparing critical care nurses for clinical decision making and practice. A must-have for anyone studying or working in critical care nursing.
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Chapter 1 Humanised Care and Clinical Decision Making in Critical Care
Chapter Aims
- To understand the relationship between person-centred care and a humanising philosophy.
- To discuss how the humanising dimensions can relate to the patient, family and critical care nurse.
- To explore the professional gaze of the critical care nurse and how this relates to effective clinical decision making.
Introduction
What is Patient-Centred Care?
- Department of Health (2000) National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease; Modern Standards and Service Models.
- Department of Health (2001) National Service Framework for older people.
- Department of Health (2006) Dignity in Care Campaign.
- Department of Health (2012) NHS England: Compassion in Practice. Nursing, Midwifery and Care Staff, Our Vision and Strategy.
- Health Improvement Scotland (2017) People at the Centre of Health Care. Person-Centred Health and Care.
- NHS Wales (2015) Health and Care Standards.
- World Health Organisation (2015) Preparing a Health Care Workforce for the 21st Century: The Challenge of Chronic Conditions.
Does Patient-Centred Care Improve Patient Outcome?
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Publisherâs Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Humanised Care and Clinical Decision Making in Critical Care
- Chapter 2 What Triggers Critical Illness?
- Chapter 3 Respiratory Failure Case Studies: Anna and David
- Chapter 4 Haemodynamic Instability Case Study: Joseph Knight
- Chapter 5 Cardiac Failure Case Study: Michael
- Chapter 6 Acute Kidney Injury Case Study: Brian
- Chapter 7 Gastrointestinal Disorder Case Study: Rebecca
- Chapter 8 Endocrine Disorders Case Study: Conner
- Chapter 9 Neurological Damage Case Studies: Richard and Steven
- Chapter 10 Legal and Ethical Issues in Critical Care Case Study: Ms B
- Chapter 11 The Impact of Critical Illness on Recovery and Rehabilitation Case Study: Fred
- Conclusion: The Way Forward
- Index