This is the indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems faced by nurses working in this specialty.

• Organise your job and yourself
• Assess patients and communicate with them
• Get clinical information on a wide range of conditions
• What to do in emergency

• Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field
• Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis
• Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career.