A complete outline and course review in one book, now including study questions, key points in color, learning objectives, and abundant white space for notes. Also added is a StudySmart disk with more than 1 00 NCLEX-style, multiple choice questions with answer rationales, nursing-process step, client needs category, and taxonomic level. Brand-new decision trees, chapter overviews, patient-teaching tips, and clinical alerts boost learning and promote critical thinking. Contents include perspectives on critical care and emergency nursing, psychosocial aspects of critical care and emergency nursing, nutritional support, infection control, emergency life support; resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic monitoring, intracranial pressure monitoring, continuous cardiac monitoring, cardiac arrhythmias, alternative management therapies, cardiovascular disorders, respiratory disorders, metabolic and renal disorders, endocrine disorders, neurologic systems, trauma, appendices, selected references, and index.

297 pages, softcover, with disk