Recommend Critical Care Text

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I am a senior BSN student (1 more semester to go) and intend to work in the critical care area. I would appreciate any suggestions of a good critical text or reference/resource book to begin reviewing now. A text will be recommeded for a course in the Spring semester--don't know the name yet.

All your suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Thank you,

Camille

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Fast Facts for Critical Care Nurses is a good one. I have the program on my PDA but it also comes in a book.

http://www.kathywhite.com

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Specializes in Critical Care & FNP.

Check the AACN website. They sell Core Curriculum books that you might find interesting. I don't have any of them.

[email=http://www.aacn.org/]http://www.aacn.org/[/email]

A Mosby book that I did get is called "Manual of Critical Care Nursing" by Pamela L. Swearingen and Janet Hicks Keens. I personally find it useful for looking up disease processes, as well as ventilator and hemodynamic information.

Good luck

:)

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Specializes in Home Health.

I love that Swearingen book, excellent fast reference!!

As for texts,I swear by the ACCN Critica Care Text as the Bible.

Another book I really liked, and it's been awhile, so I am not sure of the name anyore, I think it was called Essentials of Critical care Nursing, I loved the illustrations, esp in hemodynamics section, but t is not just a cardiac book. I love Conover's cardiac Nursing text and Dubin's EKG book. Those are some of my faves. The best book I ever read for critica care is OLD, it was called Shock, written in 1980's. really good cellular-level descriptions of shock, not ll that much has changed. But I think this book is out of print now.

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Thank you to everyone for your suggestions. I am going for amazon to look up these titles; and will check back to see if any new suggestions come up.

Thanks again,

Camille

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Specializes in Home Health.

Techniques in Bedside Hemodynamic Monitoring by Daily is EXCELLENT if you are really into Cradiac critical care and do a lot of Swans, and IABP.

AACN Clinical Reference for Critical Care Nursing by Kinney...the bible, thought I should give yu the correct name, since there are so many out there.

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Thank you Hoolahan.

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"The ICU Book" by Paul Marino. Definetly one of the best books out there for critical care.

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Specializes in Med-Surg Nursing.

I like Thelan's Critical Care Nursing Diagnosis and Management by Mosby Publishing. It is the text that we use in our Critical Care Course. Very thourough!

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I also have Fast Facts from the kathywhite website...very good book. :)

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Specializes in Step down, ICU, ER, PACU, Amb. Surg.

The AACN Critical Care text is good....but dry, drY, DRY! They also have a procedure manual that is very good....going over how different proedures are done, it covers the use of invasive lines to chest tubes and such.

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Thanks Untamed Spirit, I am always looking for more material to help me improve skills and knowledge.

I appreciate it

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