Critical Care Nursing Practice Guide

Good and useful book to explore the knowledge in icu and casuallty care especially for nurses and the doctors

I chose this book because I was a new graduate nurse working on a cardiac critical care unit and was feeling very overwhelmed! There is so much to learn and I needed some guidance. This book really broke everything down and I am much more confident in my practice because of it!!

This is a good introductory book for anyone trying to familiarize themselves with critical care. However, I noticed that there are some mistakes littered throughout which tends to lower this book's credibility. I caught these mistakes quite easily because they are not nit-picky mistakes, but clear-cut mistakes that any nurse should pick up. It makes me wonder about the stuff that I don't know about in critical care as to whether or not the book is accurate. For example, on page 100, it states that the T-wave form on an EKG is ventricular DEpolarization, then on page 102 it corrects itself by stating properly that it is ventricular REpolarization. For the most part, this is a great introductory book and I will continue to read it, however, for the price of admission, 35 dollars for a small 330 page book, I would expect basic facts to be correct.

I was a new RN that got hired in MICU when I bought this. I researched for months trying to look for a good book to have with me at work. The layout of the book is nice and understandable. It has everything from lab values to how to work pumps and cvvhd. I especially love the size. It's pretty small and not very thick. I recommend this book for all the new RN's out there!

great product just what I wanted I can recommend to my family and friends, it was very good experience buying the product.

This book is alright. It didnt really do much for me. I did a critical care program through the AACN called ECCO, and studied some books to prepare for the CCRN and thats what helped me as a new grad in the ICU.