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1. ISBN-10

   0323531997
2. ISBN-13

   978-0323531993

Stay updated on crucial matters in high acuity, progressive, and critical care settings with Priority in Intensive Care Nursing, 8th Edition. Ideal for both practicing nurses and critical care nurses reviewing for CCRN® certification alike, this evidence-based textbook utilizes the most recent, most authoritative research to help you identify patient priorities in order to safely and expertly manage patient care. Concise coverage of all core critical care nursing topics includes medication, patient safety, patient education, problem identification, and interprofessional collaborative management. You’ll learn how to integrate the expertise of critical care with the physiological needs and psychosocial considerations of patients and families to provide the highest-quality care. In addition, this new edition places a unique focus on interprofessional patient concerns to help you learn to communicate a consistent language of patient concerns and work effectively as part of an interprofessional team.

• Need-to-know content reflects today’s high acuity, progressive, and critical care environments!
• UNIQUE! Balanced coverage of expertise and psychosocial considerations includes an emphasis on patient care priorities to help you provide the highest-quality nursing care.
• Consistent format includes a Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures chapter followed by multiple Issues and Therapeutic Management chapters for each content area.
• Strong QSEN focus incorporates Evidence-Based Practice boxes that utilize the PICOT framework; Teamwork and Collaboration boxes that provide guidelines for effective handoffs, assessments, and communication between nurses and other hospital staff; and Patient Safety Alert boxes that highlight important guidelines and recommendations to ensure patient safety in critical care settings.
• Nursing management plans at the end of the book provide a complete care plan for every priority patient problem ― including outcome criteria, nursing interventions, and rationales.
• Additional learning aids include case studies, theory maps, Collaborative Management boxes, Patient Education boxes, Priority Treatment boxes, and Cultural Competency boxes.

• NEW! Updated evidence-based content reflects the latest meta-analyses, systematic reviews, evidence-based guidelines, and national and international protocols.
• NEW! Enhanced multimedia resources include 15 links to sample expertise from Elsevier Clinical Skills and 25 3D animations.
• NEW and UNIQUE! Focus on interprofessional patient concerns helps you learn to communicate a consistent interprofessional language of patient concerns and learn to work effectively as a team.
• NEW and UNIQUE! Integration of (IPEC®) Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice incorporates the 4 IPEC Competencies ― Values/Ethics, Teams and Teamwork, Roles/Duties, and Interprofessional Communication ― into textbook content and case studies.
• NEW! Fully updated case studies reflect the current “flavor” of high-acuity, progressive, and critical care settings and now include questions specifically related to QSEN competencies.
• NEW! Additional content on post-ICU outcomes has been added to chapters as they relate to specific complications.
• NEW! Updated information on sepsis guidelines has been added to Chapter 26.
• NEW! More concise boxes with new table row shading enhance the book’s focus on need-to-know information and improve usability.