Urden Linda D., Stacy Kathleen M., Lough Mary E. Critical Care Nursing. Diagnosis and Management

7th ed. — Elsevier, 2014. — 1232 p. — ISBN: 978-0-323-09178-7.A dominant theme of the book is nursing diagnosis and management, reflecting the strength of critical care nursing practice. Wherever possible, evidence-based critical
care practice is incorporated into nursing interventions. To foster critical thinking and decision making, a boxed “menu” of nursing diagnoses complete with specific etiologic or related factors accompanies each medical disorder and major medical
treatment discussion where appropriate nursing management is detailed. To facilitate
student learning, the nursing management plans of care incorporated nursing diagnosis definition, etiologic or related factors, clinical manifestations, and interventions with rationale.
The book provides detailed information on intensive care in the following areas:
foundations of critical care nursing, cardiovascular alterations, pulmonary alterations,
neurologic alterations, kidney alterations, gastrointestinal alterations, multisystem
alterations, endocrine alterations, special populations.