Critical care outreach
By: edited by Lee R. Cutler, Wayne P. Robson.
Contributors: Cutler, Lee R.; Robson, Wayne P.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chichester, England; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780470025840
Subjects: Intensive care nursing -- Great Britain.; Critical Care -- methods -- Great Britain.; Critical Care -- organization & administration -- Great Britain.; Community-Institutional Relations -- Great Britain.; Intensive Care Units -- organization & administration -- Great Britain.; Patient Care Team -- organization & administration -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The origins of critical care outreach / Derek Bainbridge; value: Designing an outreach service / David Wood; value: Audit case study : scoring all observations compared with scoring on concern / David Wood; value: The initial assessment and care of the 'at risk patient' / Jeremy Groves, Jayne Tague and Lee Cutler; value: Specific clinical problems / Lee Cutler, Elaine Shaw and David Wood; value: Sharing critical care skills / Lee Cutler, Kathryn Warren and Rinky Ingles; value: Case study : the use of high level clinical simulation in critical care nurse education / Lee Cutler and Judith Cutler; value: Role expansion and the critical care outreach nurse / Lee Cutler and Denise Honnor; value: Case study : expanding the role of the nurse in critical care outreach / Elaine Shaw; value: Transfering patients from critical care to the ward / Wayne Robson; value: Critical care outreach follow up / Kate Bray; value: Patient diaries / Wayne Robson, Gayle Wheeldon and Denise Penney; value: Establishing and managing a critical care outreach team : a practical approach / Alex Larkin; value: Case study : the role of the physiotherapist in the critical care outreach team / Alex Larkin and Sally Knightly; value: The learning needs of critical care outreach practitioners / Lee Cutler; value: Managing change in critical care outreach : a toolkit for practice / Nicola Platts and Sue Shepherd; value: Evaluation of critical care outreach : are the resources for outreach justified? / Paul Whitting and David Edbrooke.