Prepare for success in today's high acuity, progressive, and critical care settings! "Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management, 9th Edition" helps you understand and apply critical care nursing principles and concepts to clinical assessment, diagnostic procedures, and therapeutic management. Known for its comprehensive coverage, this leading textbook uses a logical, body systems organization to address the care of patients with physiological alterations. New to this edition are illustrated Patient-Centered Critical Care features aimed at "humanizing the ICU" as well as Next Generation NCLEX Exam-style case studies to help you further develop your clinical judgment skills and prepare for the latest nursing licensure exam. -- From product description.

Unit I: Foundations of critical care nursing -- Unit II: Cardiovascular alterations -- Unit III: Pulmonary alterations -- Unit IV: Neurologic alterations -- Unit V: Kidney alterations -- Unit VI: Gastrointestinal alterations -- Unit VII: Endocrine alterations -- Unit VIII: Multisystem alterations -- Unit IX: Special populations.