Understanding the Essentials of Critical Care Nursing

Understanding the Essentials of Critical Care Nursing

Understanding the Essentials of Critical Care Nursing provides novice critical care nurses with a firm foundation so that they are able to understand the complexities of care; deliver safe, effective care; and begin their... read more

Hypertonic vs. Hypotonic, Osmolality, and Other Fun Nursing Concepts

Hypertonic vs. Hypotonic, Osmolality, and Other Fun Nursing Concepts

The basic concepts underlying the body's mechanisms for keeping systems functioning are complex processes involving the ebb and flow of fluid and molecules controlled by several systems. It is a delicate balance and one... read more

2019 Elf on the Shelf

2019 Elf on the Shelf

It is time for the second annual Elf on the Shelf social media photo sweepstakes! Your creative entries help make the season bright. So, just snap a photo of an Elf on the Shelf scene in your unit, and submit it here. Three... read more

Tales From The Bedside: True Stories From A Night-Shift ICU Nurse

Tales From The Bedside: True Stories From A Night-Shift ICU Nurse

Tales From The Bedside is a collection of short stories from a caring and brilliant ICU nurse. Her stories will captivate you, make you laugh, warm your heart, shake your head, and just maybe... will inspire you, too. Step... read more

Trauma Nursing: From Resuscitation Through Rehabilitation

Trauma Nursing: From Resuscitation Through Rehabilitation

Learn to provide state-of-the-art care to any patient in any setting with the most comprehensive trauma nursing resource available. Using the unique cycles of trauma framework, Trauma Nursing: From Resuscitation Through... read more

Palliative Care in the Emergency Department As Seen By Providers and Users

Palliative Care in the Emergency Department As Seen By Providers and Users

This study provides insights into targets for changes in Italian Emergency Departments. Room for improvement relates to training for healthcare professionals on palliative care, the development of a shared care pathway for... read more

Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine

Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine

Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine is the only book that uses a practical, question-and-answer approach to address evidence-based decision making in palliative medicine. Dr. Nathan E. Goldstein and Dr. R.... read more

Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care to the End of Life

Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care to the End of Life

This fourth edition of a comprehensive text/reference that has been valued by students, educators, and practicing nurses for many years, Palliative Care Nursing continues to reflect the fundamental hospice and palliative... read more

The Speaker Gender Gap at Critical Care Conferences

The Speaker Gender Gap at Critical Care Conferences

There is a speaker gender gap at critical care conferences, with male faculty outnumbering female faculty. This gap is more marked among physician speakers than those speakers representing nursing and allied health professionals.... read more

Sedation is Necessary to Minimize Patients’ Discomfort During Mechanical Ventilation

Sedation is Necessary to Minimize Patients’ Discomfort During Mechanical Ventilation

More than half of critical care nurses believe sedation is needed to minimize discomfort and distress among patients receiving mechanical ventilation, according to survey results published recently in the American Journal... read more

Effect of a Nurse-Led Preventive Psychological Intervention on Symptoms of PTSD Among Critically Ill Patients

Effect of a Nurse-Led Preventive Psychological Intervention on Symptoms of PTSD Among Critically Ill Patients

Among critically ill patients in the ICU, a nurse-led preventive, complex psychological intervention did not significantly reduce patient-reported Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptom severity at 6 months. These findings... read more

The Language of Kindness

The Language of Kindness

Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to... read more

Mechanical Ventilation Sedation Necessary for Comfort According to Nurses

Mechanical Ventilation Sedation Necessary for Comfort According to Nurses

Nurses' attitudes toward sedating patients receiving mechanical ventilation have shifted in the past decade, with fewer nurses now believing that all patients should be sedated. However, more than half of nurses still agree... read more

Outcome Assessment in Advanced Practice Nursing

Outcome Assessment in Advanced Practice Nursing

As the role of the nurse continues to expand in today's healthcare environment, APRNs and DNPs are more frequently tasked with quantifying, evaluating, and improving their individual care processes, as well as demonstrating... read more