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Clinical wisdom and interventions in acute and critical care : a thinking-in-action approach / Patricia Benner, Patricia Hooper-Kyriakidis, Daphne Stannard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benner, Patricia E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Critical care medicine.
- Nursing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (602 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""[This book is] a lavishly detailed guide to the essence of becoming an expert nurse...I believe this book will secure a place on most educators' and expert clinicians' bookshelves. Every once in a while a better book comes along; this is one of those times."". Joan E. Lynaugh , PhD, RN, FAAN. Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. (From the Foreword). A classic research-based text in nursing practice and education, this newly revised second edition explains, through first-hand accounts of the hard-earned experiential wisdom of expert nurses, the clinical reasoning
- Contents:
- Thinking-in-action and reasoning-in-transition : an overview
- Clinical grasp and clinical inquiry : problem identification and clinical problem solving
- Clinical imagination and clinical forethought : anticipating and preventing potential problems
- Diagnosing and managing life-sustaining physiologic functions in acutely ill and unstable patients
- The skilled know-how of managing a crisis
- Providing comfort measures for the critically and acutely ill
- Caring for patients' families
- Preventing hazards in a technological environment
- Facing death : end-of-life care and decision making
- Making a case : communicating clinical assessment and improving teamwork
- Patient safety : monitoring quality, preventing, and managing practice breakdown
- The skilled know-how of clinical and moral leadership and the coaching and mentoring of others
- Educational strategies and implications.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: Clinical wisdom and interventions in critical care / Patricia Benner, Patricia Hooper-Kyriakidis, Daphne Stannard.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-78268-129-9
- 1-283-13705-4
- 9786613137050
- 0-8261-0574-2
- OCLC:
- 731646952
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