Critical Care Nursing

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Summary: Gale D. RN Georgia
Review: I am a RN with 11 years experience. I have worked in critical care units for 4 years; CCU, SICU, MICU, including open heart units and neuro untis. I have been wanting to purchase a good reference book to read through and keep my knowledge up to date. I found a lot of review books for CCRN, etc.; but no basic critical care book that gave more depth and explantions for a better understanding. I am very pleased with this book and am so happy that I chose it. It is easy to read, but not repetetive and boring. It gives the reader a full understanding of the material. I plan to read this whole book in preparation for the CCRN exam and feel it will benefit my nursing career greatly by giving me a greater confidence in my knowledge base and nursing judgements.

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Summary: An excellent resource!
Review: I had been out of critical care for some time and found the book extremely useful in updating my knowledge. It is well-referenced, clearly written and interesting.

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Summary: not enough
Review: this book does not give enough clinical information at one point it even suggested that a post MI patient be referred to a health care professional for information on sexual activity! Are RNs not health care professionals!! There was not enough information on hemodynamics and other clinically important data. But plenty of ethical debates!