AACN Core Curriculum for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care Nursing | 7 Edition

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Details about AACN Core Curriculum for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care Nursing:

  • Authored by the experts at the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
  • Reflects the most recent blueprint of the CCRN examination.
  • Content spans basic to advanced levels with an emphasis on nursing practice.
  • Organized by body system and written in a concise outline format for ease of use.
  • Coverage of the AACN Synergy Model is featured in the new opening chapter.
  • Professional Care and Ethical Practice is integrated into the Core Curriculum series framework.
  • A new chapter on Critical Care Patients with Special Needs includes bariatric and geriatric patients in critical care, as well as high-risk obstetric patients.
  • Features new content on chest tubes, liver transplantation for acute liver failure, spirituality, and spiritual aspects of care.
  • Integrates pain as the 5th vital sign and includes JCAHO, HCFA, and AHCPR guidelines relating to pain management.
  • Features AHRQ evidence-based practice guidelines as reference sources for practice interventions.
  • New organization for Patient Care presents patient problems, needs, etc. in order of clinical priority.
  • Expanded Nursing Interventions includes considerations related to patient/family education, patient transfer, and discharge planning.
  • Web-based resources for CDC, AHA, NINR, National Guideline Clearinghouse, NIH Consensus Conference Proceedings, ADA.

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