Description: Real-world nursing care for your critically ill patients, right at your fingertips! Delmar's Critical Care Nursing Care Plans, Second Edition, provides detailed information for nurses who care for patients in the critical care unit. All the information needed to develop specific and effective nursing care plans for the most commonly seen disorders is included. Each care plan presents information to guide users in developing comprehensive, individualized nursing care plans based on solid, scientific understanding of the condition and how it affects each of the patient's body systems. Care plans solicit specific patient data and prompt the user to individualize the interventions, consider cultural relevance, and evaluate the patient's individual responses.

Benefits: • An introductory chapter provides an overview of how to customize a care plan to meet the needs of a specific patient • Fifty-six of the most significant conditions are addressed in the care plans, including cardiac surgery, intra-aortic balloon pumping, mechanical ventilation, disseminated intravascular coagulation, burns, latex allergies, and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome • Each section begins with a description of the disorder, anticipated medical treatment, and nursing care, including interventions, rationales, and discharge and maintenance instructions • Body-system organization helps nurses quickly locate information and disorders • Up-to-date North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) diagnoses are used throughout • Nursing Interventions Classifications (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classifications (NOC) have been added to encourage users to tie care plans into established standards and to ensure that users base their work on the most current research • Important relationships are presented in flowcharts to give users visual cues and to improve understanding of the basis for care • A multimedia CD at the back of the book is fully interactive and customizable, and it gives users flexible tools to create and build individualized care plans