Any tips for help with learning critical care

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hi there,

i'm getting ready to start back to school next tuesday for my final semester. i will have critical care on my schedule. i was wonderingif anyone could offer any tips, websites, books, reference books or anything that would help facilitate learning critical care nursing? :confused:

i have the following books:

critical care made incredibly easy

brunner & suddarth textbook of medical surgical nursing

memory notebooks of nursing

i was wondering if i should order critical care notes (davis)

any information would be greatly appreciated.

thanks!!

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Specializes in ER, progressive care.

Critical Care Notes (Davis) is a nice reference for clinical. I also highly recommend the Manual of Critical Care Nursing.

index is a great website. There was another website that has a lot of critical care information but I can't remember it and of course I don't have it bookmarked, so I'm hoping someone will post it.

As for tips, you really just need to study, study, study! The things they want you to learn in your critical care rotation is no joke and I honestly studied really hard for this class, harder than my other nursing classes. I found the material to be very interesting which made me want to study.

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Thank you! :yeah:

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Kaplan Review was offering it's CCRN review book free for Kindle. I downloaded the program for PC Kindle about a week ago and got the book. It's the only medical text I downloaded. It may help you although I've got to say most of the review material in it seems pretty darn fundamental.

Note: I've never taken the test nor care to, at this point in life, work in critical care or get a CCRN cert. I just wanted to read the book.

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I just downloaded that yesterday.....I have read through it and feel it will be helpful. Thanks!!

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I've been wondering the same thing. I'm in my last semester also and we are doing critical care and advanced hemodynamic monitoring, etc. I usually do hundreds of NCLEX questions before each test, but none of my NCLEX books include any of this information. I even asked my teacher and she said most of the critical care books on the market are geared for people who are taking the CCRN and are way more advanced than what we will be tested on. So I'm also wondering if anyone has any good resources for practice questions and info for this content in the RN program.

I did take a look at the Hemodynamic Monitoring-Made Incredibly Easy book in the bookstore and it had some good info and was helpful, but it didn't have any practice questions in it and those help me the most.

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Are there enough critical care questions on the NCLEX to warrant that much focus?

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Are there enough critical care questions on the NCLEX to warrant that much focus?

I don't think so. The NCLEX seems to focus more on delegation/prioritization and med-surgey type things (along with psych, OB & peds).

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Are there enough critical care questions on the NCLEX to warrant that much focus?

I don't think so. The NCLEX seems to focus more on delegation/prioritization and med-surgey type things (along with psych, OB & peds).

Well at this point I'm concerned about the test in class not the NCLEX. One of the most effective study tools for me on each individual test is practicing questions from the NCLEX books on whatever subject matter we are going to be tested on in class. But unfortunately this content is not in any NCLEX books I have found thus far and our text book has very few practice q's along with this chapter compared to others as well. I know it's probably not that important for the NCLEX, but I need it for class right now since this is the content we are going over and what we will be tested on.

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Specializes in ER, progressive care.
Well at this point I'm concerned about the test in class not the NCLEX. One of the most effective study tools for me on each individual test is practicing questions from the NCLEX books on whatever subject matter we are going to be tested on in class. But unfortunately this content is not in any NCLEX books I have found thus far and our text book has very few practice q's along with this chapter compared to others as well. I know it's probably not that important for the NCLEX, but I need it for class right now since this is the content we are going over and what we will be tested on.

I have a few NCLEX books and unfortunately I have not found any "practice critical care questions" in any of them or any of the books I have, other than the CC Nursing Made Incredibly Easy book but I really don't think those are NCLEX-type questions. If you have instructors like I did, they will incorporate NCLEX-style questions related to critical care in lecture.

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