The fifth edition of this essential text provides a comprehensive overview of working in intensive care. Written for critical care nurses practising at Level 3, it is fully updated to ensure the evidence base is up to date and the content reflects contemporary best practice.

Intensive Care Nursing covers patient-focused issues of bedside nursing; the technical knowledge necessary to care safely for ICU patients; the more common and specialised disease processes and treatments encountered; and how nurses can use their knowledge and skills to develop their own and others' practice. This feature includes all-new chapters on maternal critical care and principles of pharmacology for intensive care nursing. The chapters include numerous pedagogical features to aid readers in transferring their learning, such as boxes highlighting implications for practice, further reading sections, and clinical scenarios with questions.

Intensive Care Nursing is essential reading for student and qualified nurses and allied health professionals working with critically ill patients, particularly those undertaking post-registration training in the area.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Contexts of Care

1. Nursing Perspectives and the Humanistic Approach

2. Principles of Pharmacology

3. Psychological Care

Part 2: Fundamental

4. Artificial Ventilation

5. Airway Management

6. Sedation

7. Acute Pain Management

8. Thermoregulation

9. Nutrition and Bowel Care

10. Mouthcare

11. Eyecare

12. Tissue Viability

13. Children in Adult ICUs

14. Older Patients in the ICU

15. Infection Prevention and Control

16. Epidemics and Pandemics

Part 3: Monitoring

17. Respiratory Monitoring

18. Gas Carriage

19. Blood Gas Interpretation

20. Haemodynamic Monitoring

21. Blood Results

22. ECGs and Dysrhythmias

23. Neurological Monitoring

Part 4: Micropathologies

24. Cellular Pathology

25. Immunity and Immunodeficiency

26. Haemostasis

Part 5: Respiratory

27. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

28. Alternative Ventilation

Part 6: Cardiovascular

29. Acute Coronary Syndromes

30. Cardiac Surgery and Interventions

31. Shock

32. Sepsis

33. Fluid Management

34. Inotropes and Vasopressors

35. Vascular Surgery

Part 7: Neurological

36. Central Nervous System Injury

37. Peripheral Neurological Pathologies

Part 8: Abdominal

38. Acute Kidney Injury

39. Haemofiltration

40. Gastrointestinal Bleeds

41. Liver Failure

42. Maternal Critical Care

43. Organ Donation

Part 9: Metabolic

44. Severe Acute Pancreatitis

45. Diabetic Crises

46. Self-poisoning

Part 10: Professional

47. Transferring Critically Ill Patients

48. Professional Perspectives

49. Managing the ICU

50. Costs of Intensive Care

Dedicated text for trainee and newly-qualified Advanced Practitioners specialising in acute, emergency and critical care Aligned with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) regulatory body requirements, this formative text is the first of its kind, covering a variety of key topics for advanced practitioners working in acute, emergency and critical care. Written by experienced advanced practitioners and academics closely involved in the delivery of both the clinical and academic components of advanced practice training programmes, The Advanced Practitioner in Acute, Emergency and Critical Care presents: Complex decision making, covering legal and ethical frameworks (including patient safety), communication skills and breaking bad news, and end of life care Diagnosis and management of patients, covering radiology, principles of point of care ultrasound (PoCUS), laboratory tests and prescribing Resuscitation and first stage management of the critically unwell, advanced resuscitation skills, shock, intra- and inter-hospital transfers, and organ donation History taking, physical examination, and consultation models Learning support with accreditation considerations boxes, clinical investigations, examination scenarios, pharmacology boxes, pathological and psychological considerations, social and cultural considerations, case studies, self-assessment questions, and more Utilising a multi-professional and inclusive framework of advanced level practice, this is an essential resource for all trainee and newly-qualified advanced practitioners. The text also serves as an excellent classroom aid for lecturers teaching advanced practice courses.

Long-term Conditions in Adults at a Glance The market-leading at a Glance series is popular among healthcare students and newly qualified practitioners, for its concise, simple approach and excellent illustrations. Each bite-sized chapter is covered in a double-page spread with clear, easy-to-follow diagrams, supported by succinct explanatory text. Covering a wide range of topics, books in the at a Glance series are ideal as introductory texts for teaching, learning and revision, and are useful throughout university and beyond. Everything you need to know about Long-term Conditions in Adults… at a Glance! The go-to textbook for the treatment and management of long-term conditions in adults In Long-term Conditions in Adults at a Glance, a team of distinguished health and social care professionals deliver concise and engaging contemporary knowledge about health and associated disorders. The textbook’s format, which includes visually appealing figures and tables, is particularly beneficial for those who prefer a visual approach to understanding complex concepts. Readers will also find: A thorough introduction to the sociological factors associated with long-term conditions, including environmental, housing, and lifestyle factors Comprehensive explorations of patient education and self-management, including behaviour change, health education, and patient responsibility Practical discussions of a variety of long-term conditions, including arthritis, cancer, liver disease, and epilepsy Evaluations of the treatments and management of long-term conditions, including the use of evidence-based practice and chronic pain management Perfect for student nurses, trainee nursing associates and busy healthcare practitioners, Long-term Conditions in Adults at a Glance will also be of value to registered health and care professionals working in acute and primary care. For more information on the complete range of Wiley nursing publishing, please visit: www.wiley.com/edu/nursing To receive automatic updates on Wiley books and journals, join our email list. Sign up today at www.wiley.com/email All content reviewed by students for students Wiley Health Science books are designed exactly for their intended audience. All of our books are developed in collaboration with students. This means that our books are always published with you, the student, in mind. If you would like to be one of our student reviewers, go to www.reviewnursingbooks.com to find out more.

An essential text for Advanced Practitioners In The Advanced Practitioner: A Framework for Practice, a team of distinguished Advanced Practitioners (APs) and academics deliver the go-to text for trainee APs, with a strong focus on the four pillars that underpin advanced practice: clinical practice, education, research, and leadership. The patient is at the core of this essential resource, which offers the knowledge required to care safely for people in a variety of care settings, as well as with a range of common and specialised holistic interventions. Readers will also find: A thorough introduction to the core principles of advanced practice, including the AP curriculum and the principles of physiology, pharmacology, and pathophysiology Comprehensive exploration of the clinical pillar, including discussions of clinical history taking and physical examination Practical discussion of the education and research pillars, including an exploration of research principles and education and learning Discussion of innovation in practice, the leadership pillar, and how to deal with difficult situations Perfect for trainee advanced practitioners, The Advanced Practitioner: A Framework for Practice will also benefit healthcare students and trainee medical associate professionals.

Barry Hill’s tenth book of poetry selects from his Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, 2013, and described by John Kinsella as a `masterpiece’; Grass Hut Work (2016), his excursion into Hiroshima and Japanese poetry, which Sam Hamill said was `beautiful and quietly powerful’; Lines for Birds (2009) his collaboration with the painter John Wolseley, was acclaimed by Nathaniel Tarn as `a miraculous gift of a book’; The Inland Sea (2001), which David Malouf described as `a mixture of intense contemplation and powerful eroticism’; Ghosting William Buckley (1993), deemed by Barrett Reid a `major work’ of `stories, thought and music’ from the encounter of a `wild white man’ and the indigenous people of the Australian frontier. This Selected also includes recent poetry—lyrical, political and in memoriam.

"In the ancient tradition of poet-as-traveler-and-seer, Barry Hill's Grass Hut Work is, like Basho's Narrow Road to the Interior, both a travelogue of Japan and a journey inward, into what we'll call the Soul-for lack of a better word. He sees with fresh eyes the merger of history and presence, and presents us vital insight at every turn. "In the grass hut," he says, "I strive to be nobody," and thereby becomes an everyman, an exemplar, a master and unsui, a beginner. Beautiful and quietly powerful, this is work to return to again and again." -Sam Hamill

'Naked Clay' is an intimate response to the paintings of Lucian Freud-"the great amplifier of twentieth century figurative art"' as the critic Sebastian Smee has written. The poems are as urgent as the paintings, and taken together they constitute an essay on the ambiguous gifts from a painter of such mortal, material presences. Barry Hill has created a unique space for the senses and the intellect to be prompted, explored and disturbed.