Clinical wisdom and interventions in critical care : a thinking-in-action approach

Clinical wisdom and interventions in critical care : a thinking-in-action approach /

Rather than reducing critical care to basic and easily understood principles, the authors attempt to ground critical care nursing in real time, in context, and in real practice situations. They take advantage of day-to-day nursing stories that illustrate the system of long-term care, and they allow...

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Main Author: Benner, Patricia E.
Other Authors: Hooper-Kyriakidis, Patricia Lee, Stannard, Daphne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Saunders, ©1999.
Subjects:
Intensive care nursing.
Nursing > Decision making.
Clinical competence.
Caring.
Helping behavior.
Nursing Care > methods.
Critical Care > methods.
Nursing care > Methods.
Critical care > Methods.
Soins infirmiers en soins intensifs.
Soins infirmiers > Prise de décision.
Compétence clinique.
Humanité (Morale)
Comportement d'aide.
Table of Contents:
  • Thinking-in-action and reasoning-in-transition: an overview
  • Clinical grasp and clinical inquiry: problem identification and clinical problem solving
  • Clinical forethought: anticipating and preventing potential problems
  • Diagnosing and managing life-sustaining physiologic functions in unstable patients
  • Skilled know-how of managing a crisis
  • Providing comfort measures for the critically ill
  • Caring for patients' families
  • Preventing hazards in a technological environment
  • Facing death: end-of-life care and decision making
  • Communicating multiple clinical, ethical, and practical perspectives
  • Monitoring quality and managing breakdown
  • Skilled know-how of clinical leadership and the coaching and mentoring of others Description of research design and data analysis
  • Educational strategies and implications.

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