Mosby's Critical Care Nursing Reference, 2e [Turtleback]

Susan B. Stillwell DNP RN CNE (Author)

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Publication Date: January 15, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0815182414 | ISBN-13: 978-0815182412 | Edition: 2

MOSBY'S CRITICAL CARE NURSING REFERENCE, 2ND EDITION, is a carefully organized resource that condenses the essentials of critical care nursing. The book's format promotes quick, easy access to information on disorders, treatment, assessment, monitoring, diagnostic testing, and drug therapy. It is helpful to nursing practitioners new to critical care as well as experienced critical care nurses who need a reference when dealing with less common situations.

A Volume in the Nursing Reference Series

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A convenient, pocket-sized reference containing the most essential information for critical care nursing

Improve the care you give your critical care patients!

Guidelines, formularies, dosages, and more!

The ultimate go-anywhere guide for critical care nurses! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Susan Stillwell, RN, MS

Product Details

• Turtleback: 799 pages
• Publisher: Mosby; 2 edition (January 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815182414
• ISBN-13: 978-0815182412
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 4.7 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,380,851 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Answers at your fingertips, January 10, 2001

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"aallkk" (Fresno California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mosby's Critical Care Nursing Reference, 2e (Turtleback)

This is the best critical care reference tool I have used. The content is clearly written, and offers easy to find answers to common and not so common situations. The content has a brief review of the major body systems, and also includes the "what to look for, what to do, and How to do it" information we critical care nurses are sometimes looking for. Nursing diagnosis is included, as well as many indexes of quick reference information. I bought this book when I first entered critical care five years ago, it has been very useful.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Quite a Textbook; Not Quite a Reference, October 4, 2008

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Jacob Hantla "hantla.com" (Chandler, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mosby's Critical Care Nursing Reference, 3e (Paperback)

I have graduated from ASU's Nursing College 2.5 years ago and was privileged to have Susan Stillwell, the author of this book, as a professor. She is an excellent and knowledgeable teacher. Since graduation I have worked as a CVICU & CV Recovery nurse at a cardiovascular specialty hospital.

I found this book difficult to navigate while taking the critical course and I have not found it helpful since graduating. In my opinion it is not organized clearly enough to be helpful as a quick reference (like say Kathy White material). The explanation of how to do tasks is broken down into too much common-sense minutia (like "gather materials"). On the flipside it is not detailed enough to qualify for a textbook, so the book falls into some unfortunate I-don't-know-what-to-do-with-you middle ground. I suppose that accounts for the low resale costs. I think most students sell this one after school.

What the book does well that I have not seen others do is to group critical care topics according to nursing diagnoses; therefore, it will serve the nursing student very well, and may help you to think more like they teach nurses are supposed to think and less like a doctor.

4.0 out of 5 stars Its ok, February 1, 2011

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This review is from: Mosby's Critical Care Nursing Reference, 4e (MOSBY'S CRITICAL CARE NURSING REFERENCE ( STILLWELL)) (Paperback)

Still gets the job done and helpful with making some aspects of nursing easy to understand but I was surprised that there wasn't anything about cholelithiasis! Still had a patient come in to ccu with this complication with her having respiratory issues so yeah this book still has gaps! It is useful though