Free Critical Care Supplement

Nurses need to be proactive in a critical care setting but this requires expert knowledge.

When it comes to critical care, nurses are often the key provider of information to patients, relatives and other members of the interdisciplinary team, it is therefore essential that nurses have the relevant skills and understanding required of their role. With the right knowledge nurses can reduce the risk of complications, the number of critical care bed days and improve patient outcomes by preventing unnecessary intensive care admission.

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In this exclusive Critical Care supplement, British Journal of Nursing looks at key areas of intensive care nursing. These are just a few of the issues addressed in this 34 page supplement published by BJN:

• How to appropriately assess critically ill patients
• Clinical issues to consider when measuring vital signs as well as proposing additional assessments of pain, level of consciousness and urine output, as part of routine patient assessment
• Airway management: acute and chronic, and associated nursing care
• Arterial catheters and their use within critical care and a step by- step guide on how to remove an arterial catheter
• The use of medical orders in acute care oxygen therapy

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