Clinical wisdom and interventions in critical care : a thinking-in-action approach / Patricia Benner, Patricia Lee Hooper-Kyriakidis, Daphne Stannard.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : W. B. Saunders, 1998.Description: 512p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780721675114 (pbk.) :
- 0721675115
- Helping behavior
- Caring
- Clinical competence
- Nursing -- Decision making
- Intensive care nursing
- Terminal care nursing
- Intensive care nursing
- Accident & emergency nursing
- Accident & emergency medicine
- Pain & pain management
- Medical ethics & professional conduct
- Health and Wellbeing
- Nursing Care -- methods
- Critical Care -- methods
- 610.7361 BEN
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Includes index.
1.Thinking-in-action and reasoning-in-transition: an overview -- 2.Clinical grasp and clinical inquiry: problem identificatio and clinical problem solving -- 3.Clinical forethought: anticipating and preventing potential problems -- 4.Diagnosing and managing life-sustaining physiologic functions in unstable patients -- 5.The skilled know-how of managing a crisis -- 6.Providing comfort measures for the critically ill -- 7.Caring for patients\' families -- 8.Preventing hazards in a technological enviromnet -- 9.Facing death: end-of-life care and decision making -- 10.Communicating multiple clinical, ethical, and practical perspectives -- 11.Monitoring quality and managing breakdown -- 12.The skilled know-how of cliical leadership and the coaching and mentoring of others.
Based on descriptive interviews and observational studies the authors examine how expert critical care nurses use scientific knowledge, professional experience, and a careful attention to each patient's changing condition to provide the best care.