Critical Care Outreach - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0470025840 ISBN 13 : 9780470025840

Editeur : Wiley, 2006

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A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Following the publication of the Department of Health document Comprehensive Critical Care (2000), many hospitalsin England have established critical care outreachteams.  This approach to the management of patients who arecared for outside the walls of critical care units is one that isalso used beyond the UK with the development of Medicalemergency teams in Australia.

Critical Care Outreach gives a comprehensive overview ofthis new area of critical care practice in five sections covering:the evolution of outreach; clinical practice; continuity of care;managing and supporting outreach practitioners and developing andevaluating outreach. Each section has chapters covering importanttopics that include:

• The origins of outreach

• Designing an outreach service

• Specific clinical problems

• Sharing critical care skills

• Role expansion for critical care outreach nurses

• Critical care follow–up

• The learning needs of critical care outreachpractitioners

• A toolkit for managing changing in practice

The book is written by expert critical care nurses and doctorswho have included case studies that demonstrate innovations inpractice and useful examples of how the challenges faced inoutreach can be managed.

This easy to use book provides prompts for critical thinking andtips to enhance and develop individual practice and clinicalservice effectiveness. Critical care nurses and doctors, nursingstudents, medical and physiotherapy students and post registrationnurses would find this practical book of great value.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Following the publication of the department of health document –Comprehensive Critical Care (2000), the majority of hospitals inEngland have set up Critical Care Outreach Teams. The Governmentprovided a significant sum of money for hospitals to set upoutreach services. There are now calls for an evaluation of theirimpact. The book is set out in five key sections. Each sectionfeatures chapters that address the conceptual and real life issues.In each section there is a chapter, set out as a case studyexample, demonstrating how innovative practices and servicedevelopments are going on around critical care outreach. The bookwill draw upon the knowledge, experience and clinical expertise ofsenior critical care nurses and doctors from a critical carenetwork. The book will have a definite practical application andwill provide tips to enhance practice.
∗ Chapters contain useful ′how to′ guides, prompts for criticalthinking and case studies.
∗ Very little has previously been published on this topic

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0470025840
• ISBN 13: 9780470025840
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 296