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Nursing in Critical Care Setting
An Overview from Basic to Sensitive Outcomes
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This book provides essential insights into how the approach to nursing care in ICU patients has markedly changed over recent years. It shows how the focus has progressively moved away from the technical approach that characterized early ICUs to a wider personalization of patient care that also highlights general problems such as basic hygiene and general comfort. It also demonstrates that, at the same time, the nurses' role has become more professionalized, with increasing competences in assessing and managing patients' problems and measuring related outcomes. It is structured in four units: Unit 1 presents the essential elements of accurate vital-function and basic-needs assessments for ICU patients, using both instrumental monitoring and specially validated assessment tools. Unit 2 addresses basic care in ICU patients, particularly hygiene and mobilization, reflecting recent developments in nursing that focus on the importance of these activities. Unit 3 highlights the main nursing outcomes in ICU patients, particularly focusing on risk prevention and complication management. Lastly, Unit 4 discusses advances in ICU nursing, from clinical, organizational and research perspectives.


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PREFACEI. Comisso
INTRODUCTIONG. Becattini
DEDICATIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
UNIT 1. ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING IN ICU1. Monitoring patients: what's new in intensive care setting?M. Manici 2. Neurological, pain, sedation and confusion assessmentG. Giusti, G. Mistraletti3. Respiratory and ventilatory assessmentA. Lucchini, S. Bambi, C. De Felippis4. Cardiovascular assessment and monitoringI. Comisso, A. Lucchini5. Early mobility, skin and pressure ulcer risk assessmentG. Giusti, A. Peghetti
UNIT 2. BASIC CARE IN ICU6. The Interventional Patient Hygiene ModelS. Bambi7. Bed bath, eye, mouth and skin careG. Giusti, I. Comisso9. Patients' positioningS. Bambi, S. Elli10. General considerations about infection preventionI. Comisso, S. Bambi
UNIT 3. CARE QUALITY MEASUREMENT: FROM PERFORMANCE INDICATORS TO NURSING SENSITIVE OUTCOMES11. Ventilator Associated Pneumonia and Hospital Acquired Pneumonia preventionS. Bambi, 12. Hospital-Acquired Catheter Related Blood Stream Infection preventionI. Comisso, A. Lucchini13. Hospital-Acquired Urinary Tract Infection preventionI. Comisso, A. Lucchini14. Deep vein Thrombosis and pulmonary embolism preventionM. Manici, I. Comisso15. Hospital-acquired injuries: device-related pressure ulcers, falls and restraintsS. Bambi, G. Giusti16. Gastrointestinal function: enteral nutrition and bowel managementI. Comisso, S. Bambi17. Visiting policies in Intensive Care UnitM. Manici, G. Giusti
UNIT 4. FUTURE PERSPECTIVES IN INTENSIVE CARE NURSING18. A systemic approach: ABCDE bundleM. Manici, A. Negro, G. Giusti 19. Nurse staffing levels: skill mix and nursing care hours per patient-dayA. Lucchini, I. Comisso, M. Pirovano, C. De Felippis20. Evolutions in ICU nursing S. Bambi


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ISBN-13: 9783319505589
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
Publication date: July, 2018
Pages: None
Weight: 5358g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Critical Care Medicine, Nursing, Public Health

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