The standard-bearer of critical care nursing guides—this succinct, comprehensive resource delivers the most current concepts for treating adult, critically ill patients and their families

Written by top leaders in their field, AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing provides everything you need to excel in your job or secure your CCRN certification.

This unmatched guide is filled with helpful tables and learning aids, including Knowledge Competencies for gauging progress, Principles of Management that summarize key concepts, and Essential Content case studies with questions and answers to reinforce lessons learned. The most thorough, learner-friendly text of its kind, AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing has everything you need to master your profession.

AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing is organized into four sections:

• The Essentials presents core information for providing safe, competent nursing care to all critically ill patients, regardless of their underlying medical diagnoses
• Pathologic Conditions covers conditions and management strategies commonly encountered among adult critical care patients
• Advanced Concepts in Caring for the Critically Ill Patient describes specific pathologic conditions that require specialized critical care management
• Key Reference Information features normal laboratory and diagnostic values, cardiac rhythms and their treatment  and crisis standards of care