Critical Care Nursing Secrets

By Kathleen A. Puntillo and Hildy M. Schell

Book Overview

Using the popular question-and-answer format of The Secrets Series, this practical resource offers tips, answers, and secrets on caring for patients in an ICU or critical care setting. Chapters cover such important areas as arrhythmias, blood pressure monitoring, cardiac output monitoring, cardiac surgery patients, transplant patients, acute myocardial infarction, pulmonary hypertension, airway management, respiratory failure, oncologic emergencies, pain management, and much more.Follows the question-and-answer format of The Secrets SeriesServes as a useful resource for practicing nurses in a critical care setting
72 chapters by leading experts in critical care nursingCovers end-of-life and family issues such as brain death and organ donation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560534540
• ISBN13: 9781560534549
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Hanley & Belfus
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Critical Care Nursing Secrets

This manual is a must for both the novice and expert ICU nurse. It is easy to find the answers to your question and detailed enough to expain complicated concepts.

Best critical care book out there

As an experienced critical care RN, I have owned and read many cc books. This is by far the most practical and useful book out there. It is written in a question/answer format that makes it easy to read cover to cover as well as easy to refer to for quick reference. It gives excellent concise yet detailed rationale. It uses language and terms that are used at the bedside. All answers are written for practical bedside use rather than vague theoretical answers. K. Puntillo is one of the leading cc nurses in her field. She, as well as most of the contributors, are nursing faculty, researchers, and clinical nurses at UCSF, the #1 nursing school and nursing research facility in the US.

Fantastic!

This is an excellent CCRN review, AND a really great reference book. I carried mine to work every day for at least a couple of years, but am finally giving some other books a chance. Mine has been used a lot, and is full of margin notes, underlined phrases, stars, and exclamation marks! Buy it now, its great... :-)

Adjunct text for CCRN review

In short order, this book captures the essentials of what you need to know in the ICU, and very frequently seen as subject matter on the CCRN exams. I found the memory-joggers (e.g. MR.PASS, MS.ARD) practical in both didactic and clinical practice, and often refer my orientees to this text.