It S Not Easy Being An Icu Nurse And Looking This Good
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Critical Care Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Pdf
This is a handy reference book in the award-winning Incredibly Easy! style--perfect for those entering or needing a refresher in critical care nursing. Critical care nursing is one of the most demanding and complex areas of nursing practice. The critical care nurse has to be "broadly specialized" with a fluency in a wide range of interconnected concepts, body system physiology, pathophysiology, and highly technical interventions, while processing data from multiple sources--all this in an environment where there is no room for error and seconds really do count.
A Truly Amazing ICU Nurse Is Hard To Find, Difficult To Part With And Impossible To Forget by School Sentiments Studio Pdf
Show your love with our "World's Best ICU Nurse" notebook! With it's "A Truly Amazing ICU Nurse Is Hard To Find, Difficult To Part With And Impossible To Forget" quote, it's the perfect gift to show how much you appreciate the ICU nurses in your life and its sweet sentiment will show how thankful you are for what they do each day! This notebook is a helpful tool and an excellent gift for any nurse! Its standard 8 1/2" x 11" size fits easily into a backpack or laptop case and is great for that busy nurse that's on the go. Its simple, easy to use design makes it just right to keep one's thoughts organized, jot down notes or inspiration, use as a daily planner or utilize as a journal. It can also be used to write down medical plans, meeting information, schedules, or anything else a nurse would need - all in one place! It makes a thoughtful and inspiring gift, will make your ICU nurse feel extra special and is the perfect, heartfelt thank-you gift that will make your nurse week appreciation or graduation gift giving just a little easier! 100 pages of premium neutral white paper Wide-ruled lined pages Perfectly sized at 8 1/2" x 11" Premium matte cover design
Surviving the ICU by Rachel Larcom, MSN FNP-BC CCRN Pdf
Have you started an RN role in the ICU setting and are struggling to remember why you started? Maybe you have been doing this for a while and are feeling burned-out, are close to, or just want to know what to do to prevent it. This tool kit is for you. Operating in the critical care nursing role can be full of excitement and wonder, with its fair share of frustration and hurt. There are so many achievements to attain, many complex situations to encounter, and opportunities to grow and learn. This book is a useful tool kit that can be adapted in any ICU setting, serving as a guide with survival tactics that are simple and have been used in real-world ICU environments. It is not easy to stay afloat or even just survive in the ICU, especially within the chaos of what the world is facing right now as many encounter complex diagnoses and suffer from illnesses not foreseen before now. From wherever you are sitting today, take a moment to reflect on what makes you a nurse, a great nurse, and think of what it has taken for you to get to this moment. This tool kit will equip you to maintain momentum in your journey and be the best you have been made to be. We are all in this together and, take it from a fellow CVICU nurse, it takes heart to stay in the game and keep doing what we have been created to do. Let these words impart strength, joy, grace, and encouragement for your journey to stay the course and also give yourself room to breathe and recover as you keep going.
The team of nurses that Tilda Shalof found herself working with in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a big-city hospital was known as “Laura’s Line.” They were a bit wild: smart, funny, disrespectful of authority, but also caring and incredibly committed to their jobs. Laura set the tone with her quick remarks. Frances, from Newfoundland, was famous for her improvised recipes. Justine, the union rep, wore t-shirts emblazoned with defiant slogans, like “Nurses Care But It’s Not in the Budget.” Shalof was the one who had been to university. The others accused her of being “sooo sensitive.” They depended upon one another. Working in the ICU was both emotionally grueling and physically exhausting. Many patients, quite simply, were dying, and the staff strove mightily to prolong their lives. With their skill, dedication, and the resources of modern science, they sometimes were almost too successful. Doctors and nurses alike wondered if what they did for terminally-ill patients was not, in some cases, too extreme. A number of patients were admitted when it was too late even for heroic measures. A boy struck down by a cerebral aneurysm in the middle of a little-league hockey game. A woman rescued – too late – from a burning house. It all took its toll on the staff. And yet, on good days, they thrived on what they did. Shalof describes a colleague who is managing a “crashing” patient: “I looked at her. Nicky was flushed with excitement. She was doing five different things at the same time, planning ahead for another five. She was totally focused, in her element, in control, completely at home with the chaos. There was a huge smile on her face. Nurses like to fix things. If they can.” Shalof, a veteran ICU nurse, reveals what it is really like to work behind the closed hospital curtains. The drama, the sardonic humour, the grinding workload, the cheerful camaraderie, the big issues and the small, all are brought vividly to life in this remarkable book.
Princess Margaret Hospital by Harold Alexander Munnings Jr. Pdf
In 1965, the Yarmouth Castle, a cruise ship that was laden with American tourists, burned and sank en route to Nassau. The rescue effort and the fight to save the many badly burned survivors was centered at the Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) in The Bahamas. The final toll of 90 lives lost made this one of the worst maritime disasters in North American history. The story of the Yarmouth Castle disaster is a part of the fabric of the story of PMH, a story that begins in the 1780s with the opening of the African Hospital in Nassau. We trace the evolution of the Poor House on Shirley Street into the Bahamas General Hospital, forerunner of the PMH. Along the way we describe a commission of inquiry into hospital corruption (1915), a disruptive doctors strike and even the murder of a hospital nurse on the private ward. We knew that our investigations were probing sensitive areas when officials had difficulty locating reports and photographs. Nevertheless, research trumped resistance. We interviewed pioneers and disaster survivors, studied documents in the National Archives of the Bahamas, the Supreme Court registry, the Ministry of Health and even the library of the United States Coast Guard. Princess Margaret Hospital is much more than a sleepy account of the construction of an old hospital. It is a story of disaster, recovery, survival, philanthropy and genius.
Conflicted Health Care by Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano,Charles S. Varano Pdf
Anyone who has spent time in a hospital as a patient or family member of a patient hopes that those who attend to us or our loved ones are at their professional best and that they care for us in ways that console us and preserve our dignity. This book takes an intimate look at how health care practitioners struggle to live up to their professional and caring ideals through (or during?) twelve-hour shifts on the hospital floor. From 3,200 hours of participant-observation and 500 hours of follow-up interviews with twenty-one doctors, thirty registered nurses, twenty-one respiratory therapists, twenty medical social workers, and eighteen occupational, physical, and speech therapists, the authors create a complex picture of the workplace conflicts that different types of health care practitioners face. Though all these groups espouse caring ideals, professional interests and a curative orientation dominate in patient care and interoccupational relations. Because emotive caring is not supported by the organization of health care in the hospital, it becomes an individual virtue that overworked staff find hard to perform, and it takes on an ideological form that obscures the status hierarchy among practitioners. Conflicts between practitioners rest upon the ranking of each group's knowledge base. They manifest in efforts to work as a team or set limits on practitioner responsibilities and in differing views on unionization.
Critical Care Medicine by Joseph E. Parrillo, MD, FCCM,R. Phillip Dellinger, MD, MS Pdf
Take the best possible care of adult critical care patients with Critical Care Medicine: Principles of Diagnosis and Management in the Adult! Editors Dr. Joseph Parrillo and Dr. Phillip Dellinger, two of the most respected names in critical care medicine, combine their extensive knowledge with that of hundreds of top authorities in the field to bring you expert, state-of-the-art answers to any clinical question you may face in the intensive care unit. Offer your adult critical care patients the most effective care with practical, evidence-based guidance from many of the most trusted experts in critical care medicine. Learn from the best ICU specialists worldwide with contributions from an increased number of international authorities. Effectively manage common complications in the ICU with updated coverage of severe sepsis, septic shock, surgical infections, neurogenic and anaphylactic shock, severe heart failure, acute coronary syndromes, and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Access the complete contents online at Expert Consult, along with an image bank and instructional videos!
Memoirs of a Hospice Nurse by Elizabeth Walters Pdf
Most people have been misinformed about hospice care and hospice nurses. This book will put their minds at ease and enlighten them to the fact that hospice nursing comes fully staffed with caring and highly educated individuals, and that, hospice is not a place but a philosophy of care. This team often consists of and is headed by a medical director, RNs, LPNs, social workers, and chaplains. These professionals spend sleepless nights rendering care and comfort and catering to the needs of patients who are bravely on their final journey in life. Memoirs of a Hospice Nurse chronicles the unforgettable experiences that nurse Elizabeth Walters encountered while providing hands-on bedside care to her dying patients. This riveting storytelling will show the compassion and love displayed by this hospice nurse for her patients and their families.
Author : S. Irudaya Rajan Publisher : Taylor & Francis Page : 438 pages File Size : 53,5 Mb Release : 2022-09-06 Category : Medical ISBN : 9781000641219
India Migration Report 2022 by S. Irudaya Rajan Pdf
India Migration Report 2022 is one of the first volumes to focus comprehensively on Indian health professionals’ migration. The essays in the volume discuss the reasons, challenges and opportunities that daunt and prompt health professionals to migrate within and outside India. This volume: • Explores the history of migration of health professionals, especially nurses from India; • Focuses in economic and social drivers of migration among health professionals; • Examines shifting patterns in migration as well as emergence of new destinations for migrants; • Studies the economic and social impact of COVID-19 among migrant health professionals; • Highlights the influence of remittances on rural economies in India. Timely, data-driven and drawing on exhaustive fieldwork, the volume looks at Indian health professionals in North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and South Asia. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of development studies, public health, public policy, economics, demography, sociology and social anthropology, and migration and diaspora studies.
"Doctors heal, or try to, but as nurses we step into the breach, figure out what needs to be done for any given patient today, on this shift, and then, with love and exasperation, do it as best as we can."—from Critical Care "At my job, people die," writes Theresa Brown, capturing both the burden and the singular importance of her profession. Brown, a former English professor at Tufts University, chronicles here her first year as an R.N. in medical oncology. As she does so, Brown illuminates the unique role of nurses in health care, giving us a deeply moving portrait of the day-to-day work nurses do: caring for the person who is ill, not just the illness itself. Critical Care takes us with Brown as she struggles to tend to her patients' needs, both physical (the rigors of chemotherapy) and emotional (their late-night fears). Along the way, we see the work nurses do to fight for their patients' dignity, in spite of punishing treatments and an often uncaring hospital bureaucracy. We also see how a twelve-hour day of caring for the seriously ill gives Brown herself a deeper appreciation of what it means to be alive. Ultimately, this is a book about embracing life, whether in times of sickness or health. As she takes us into the place where patients and nurses meet, Brown shows us the power of human connection in the face of mortality. She does so with a keen sense of humor and remarkable powers of observation, making Critical Care a powerful contribution to the literature of medicine.
Penetrating Trauma by George C. Velmahos,Elias Degiannis,Dietrich Doll Pdf
This book provides clear practical guidance on all aspects of the surgical treatment of penetrating trauma and aims to foster the type of strategic thinking that can save patients’ lives. The coverage encompasses prehospital care, penetrating injuries to various body regions and specific organs, orthopedic injuries, peripheral arterial injuries, injuries to special groups of patients, including children and the elderly, military injuries, and a range of other topics. Based on their extensive personal experience, expert authors provide step-by-step instructions on evaluation, surgical techniques, and management of perioperative problems. Tips and tricks and technical pearls are highlighted and each chapter includes a list of the most important points to observe. This second edition of Penetrating Trauma has been extensively revised and updated – with inclusion of some entirely new chapters – to take into account the most recent trends in resuscitation, diagnostics, and treatment. It will be an ideal resource for those looking for practical solutions on how to treat injuries surgically.
Stories from ICU Doctors by Diane Dennis,Aaron Calhoun,Rahul Khanna,Cameron Knott,Peter Vernon van Heerden Pdf
The intensive care unit (ICU) is a specialised hospital ward where the ‘sickest-of-the-sick’ patients, often with life-threatening illness, receive around-the-clock monitoring and life support. There is a wide spectrum of conditions managed, and these present unique challenges for those who work in this field. Written in lay language by experienced ICU doctors (Intensivists), Psychiatrists, healthcare professionals outside of medicine and other stakeholders, “Stories from ICU doctors” provides insight and commentary around the nature and management of stressors for senior doctors working in the ICU. The first five sections of the book describe the distinctive nature of the ICU environment: the human factors involved, the characteristics of thriving Intensivists, the emotions they experience, and how they behave in response. The final three sections provide a synthesis of the advice of these clinicians for both current and future Intensivists, the advice from those who surround the Intensivist both at work and at home; and some concluding remarks about trainee suitability and selection for intensive care medicine. This book is for ICU patients and their families, it is for the families of ICU doctors, it is for doctors from other specialities, it is for the nurses and others that work alongside ICU doctors, and for anyone considering a career in ICU medicine and those who care for them. We share these stories in hope that readers might better appreciate the human side of these doctors, better understand the complex working environment in which they practice, and perhaps better empathize with their stressors and struggles. Most importantly, this book is also for the ICU doctors who currently work within the specialty, to validate their feelings and experiences, and ultimately provide support by reminding them that they are not alone in navigating the difficulties they face.
This is an excellent guide for students and practicing nurses for writing care plans to provide comprehensive, individualized and holistic family centered care to children. Nursing care plan in this book are divided into two parts. The first section provides generic care plans for common nursing diagnosis. The care plans in this section will be the building blocks for creating customized care plans tailored to each child's unique nursing diagnosis. The second section with nursing care plans for specifically selected health problems with corresponding medical diagnosis is an added advantage for.
Nursing in Critical Care Setting by Irene Comisso,Alberto Lucchini,Stefano Bambi,Gian Domenico Giusti,Matteo Manici Pdf
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.