Clinical Wisdom and Interventions in Critical Care A Thinking-in-Action Approach |
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Author:
| Benner, Patricia Hooper-Kyriakidis, Patricia Stannard, Daphne |
Editor:
| Eoyang, Thomas |
ISBN: | 978-0-7216-7511-4 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1998 |
Publisher: | Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
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Imprint: | Saunders |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $35.95 |
Book Description:
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This brilliant work examines how expert critical care nurses use scientific knowledge, professional experience, and a careful attention to each patient's changing condition to provide excellent nursing care. Based on descriptive interviews and observational studies of 205 nurses, it helps readers at all levels develop the critical-thinking, reasoning, judgment, and intervention skills they need to become superior critical-care nurses.
This brilliant work examines how expert critical care nurses use scientific knowledge, professional experience, and a careful attention to each patient's changing condition to provide excellent nursing care. Based on descriptive interviews and observational studies of 205 nurses, it helps readers at all levels develop the critical-thinking, reasoning, judgment, and intervention skills they need to become superior critical-care nurses.