Critical Care Nursing - Learning from Practice

This small, pocket-sized book provides a solid introduction to aspects of care and management in critical care. The book contains not only information on patient assessment, ventilation, haemodynamic monitoring, emergencies, critical care interventions, common conditions and pharmacology, all clearly relating to critical care, but also psychological, professional practice issues, palliative care and caring for relatives. It provides the factual information needed to assist nurses in providing holistic care in the critical care environment, in an accessible format.

•  Pocket-book format makes the book portable and user-friendly
• Pull-out boxes highlight hints and tips for practice
• Diagrams used to explain clearly difficult concepts

Pregnancy Sucks, by Joanne Kimes and Sanford A. Tisherman, M.D., gives you real solutions to all the annoying and somewhat awkward situations that can unexpectedly arise during your pregnancy.

• Farm-fresh butter, or petroleum jelly, works just as well for your itchy belly as a fancy and overpriced "pregnancy" product?
• If you're put on bedrest, walkie-talkies will allow you to yell at your husband-no matter where he is in the house!
• Surrounding yourself with regular pillows (don't forget to swipe your husband's) is just as good as buying a special large "pregnancy pillow"-and more adaptable to giving support where you personally need it?
• Doing the hokey pokey, or taking a warm shower, can ease Braxton Hicks contractions?

Full of insight, hilarity, and practical solutions on every page, Pregnancy Sucks shows how, through it all, you can survive with your health, dignity, and sanity intact!

Day trading is undoubtedly the most exciting way to make your own money. Before you begin, you need three things: patience, nerves of steel, and a well-thumbed copy of Day Trading For Dummies?the low-risk way to find out whether day trading is for you.

This plain-English guide shows you how day trading works, identifies its all-too-numerous pitfalls, and gets you started with an action plan. From classic and renegade strategies to the nitty-gritty of daily trading practices, it gives you the knowledge and confidence you'll need to keep a cool head, manage risk, and make decisions instantly as you buy and sell your positions.

• Advice on choosing an online broker
• Updated examples reflect current market and economic conditions and the latest information on SEC rules and regulations (and tax laws)
• Other titles by Logue: Hedge Funds For Dummies, Socially Responsible Investing For Dummies, and Emerging Markets For Dummies

America’s bestselling guide to caring for a baby, with over 10 million copies in print, What to Expect the First Year is the bible for taking care of a newborn though the milestone of his or her first birthday.

• Comprehensive and clinically oriented
• Examines best practice in wound management
• Incorporates national and international clinical guidelines where applicable
• Superbly illustrated with full colour throughout

The Clinical Companion for Ignatavicius & Workman: Medical-Surgical Nursing: Patient-Centered Collaborative Care, 7^th Edition, is an easy-to-use, A-Z guide to 245 common medical-surgical conditions and their management. Written in a reader-friendly, direct-address style, this handbook is a convenient quick reference that you can carry with you on clinical days.

• A-Z synopses of 245 diseases and disorders, along with related collaborative care, serve as both a quick reference for clinical days and a study resource for essential information
• Streamlined format helps you focus more effectively on nursing care priorities
• Consistent collaborative care format helps you prepare for clinical days more efficiently.
• Special Considerations highlights call your attention to important aspects of nursing care, such as Genetic/Genomic Considerations, Considerations for Older Adults, Women's Health Considerations, and Cultural Considerations.
• National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) icons help you provide safe and effective care by highlighting safety information identified in The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals.
• Concepts of Medical-Surgical Nursing sections provide a quick, one-stop review of eight concepts that are critical to medical-surgical nursing practice.
• A-Z thumb tabs along the edges of the pages facilitate quick access to clinical information for just-in-time learning and review at the bedside.
• 10 quick-reference appendices provide need-to-know, quick-reference coverage of common or important clinical topics


• Guide to Head-To-Toe Physical Assessment of Adults
• Terminology Associated With Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
• Laboratory Values
• Interventions for Common Environmental Emergencies
• Chemical and Biological Agents of Terrorism
• Discharge Planning
• Electrocardiographic Complexes, Segments, and Intervals
• The Patient Requiring Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation
• The Patient Requiring Chest Tubes
• Communication Quick Reference for Spanish-Speaking Patients

• Updated content matches the Ignatavicius & Workman textbook for a reliably seamless reference and study experience.
• UNIQUE! Nursing Safety Priorities highlights have been refined and divided into three types of Nursing Safety Priority highlights: Drug Alert!, Critical Rescue!, and Action Alert! to help you recognize critical situations in which the patient's health or very life may be in jeopardy.
• Increased use of color improves table readability and highlights headings and new Nursing Safety Priority boxes.