ICU Nursing Clinical Decision Handbook: Stabilization, Monitoring, and Escalation at the Bedside - Couverture souple

Batts, Marilyn C

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798193337133

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Critical care rarely presents as a complete diagnosis. It presents as a change: a patient who becomes quieter, a blood pressure that no longer matches the trend, a rising oxygen requirement, an unfamiliar rhythm, falling urine output, or a monitor alarm that keeps returning. ICU Nursing Clinical Decision Handbook helps nurses turn those bedside signals into organized, timely action.

Written for nurses working with adults who have actual or potential organ failure, this practice-focused handbook centers on the decisions that matter most: what changed, whether the data are reliable, what can harm the patient first, what the nurse can do now, who must be notified, and whether the patient is improving. The result is a clear, repeatable approach to stabilization, monitoring, reassessment, and escalation.

Across fifteen chapters, Marilyn C. Batts guides readers through foundational ICU reasoning; airway assessment and emergency support; oxygenation, ventilation, and mechanical ventilation; hemodynamics, perfusion, and shock; cardiac rhythm surveillance; neurologic deterioration; sepsis and multiorgan dysfunction; renal, fluid, electrolyte, endocrine, metabolic, and temperature emergencies; sedation, analgesia, delirium, sleep, and mobility; high-alert medications and infusions; lines, tubes, drains, and procedure-related risk; nutrition, skin integrity, and complication prevention; communication, documentation, ethics, family-centered care; and integrated deterioration scenarios, rapid response, and safe transfer.

Readers learn to connect the patient’s appearance, monitor data, waveforms, devices, treatment burden, recent trajectory, and response to intervention. The handbook emphasizes validation before interpretation, recognition of compensated decline, support dependence, failure-to-improve patterns, and concise escalation that communicates the urgent problem first. It also reinforces equipment-aware assessment, closed-loop communication, time-linked documentation, and reassessment after every meaningful intervention.

Each chapter is organized for both sequential learning and rapid bedside consultation. Clinical pearls strengthen pattern recognition. Red-flag alerts identify findings that require urgent attention. Documentation points connect assessment and intervention to continuity, safety, and accountability. Composite case studies, skills checklists, key terms, and bedside decision questions help readers practice how to notice, prioritize, communicate, intervene, and reassess without reducing complex care to a rigid formula.

The handbook also includes an ICU primary assessment sequence, a shift safety and device verification checklist, escalation communication templates, a consolidated critical care glossary, and a chapter-and-appendix locator index. These tools support shift preparation, rapid bedside review, precepting conversations, competency development, and post-event reflection.

Designed for nurses entering critical care, experienced ICU nurses refining rapid-assessment habits, preceptors supporting new staff, and students preparing for high-acuity practice, this handbook offers a practical framework for staying organized when the clinical picture is incomplete and the window for action is narrowing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798193337133
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 294
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