Clinical wisdom and interventions in acute and critical care
Subtitle: a thinking-in-action approach
By: Patricia Benner, Patricia Hooper Kyriakidis, Daphne Stannard
Contributors: Hooper-Kyriakidis, Patricia Lee; Stannard, Daphne
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Springer Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780826105738; 9780826105745
Subjects: Catastrophic illness; Intensive care nursing; Nursing; Critical Illness; Critical Care; Methods; Methodology; Critically ill; Care; Nursing Care
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Clinical wisdom and interventions in critical care / Patricia Benner, Patricia Hooper-Kyriakidis, Daphne Stannard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thinking-in-action and reasoning-in-transition : an overview; title: Clinical grasp and clinical inquiry : problem identification and clinical problem solving; title: Clinical imagination and clinical forethought : anticipating and preventing potential problems; title: Diagnosing and managing life-sustaining physiologic functions in acutely ill and unstable patients; title: The skilled know-how of managing a crisis; title: Providing comfort measures for the critically and acutely ill; title: Caring for patients' families; title: Preventing hazards in a technological environment; title: Facing death : end-of-life care and decision making; title: Making a case : communicating clinical assessment and improving teamwork; title: Patient safety : monitoring quality, preventing, and managing practice breakdown; title: The skilled know-how of clinical and moral leadership and the coaching and mentoring of others; title: Educational strategies and implications.