The Critical Care Manual of Clinical Procedures and Competencies
is the landmark new clinical skills resource designed for healthcare
practitioners caring for critically ill patients. The Manual offers a
complete, evidence-based guide to clinical skills procedures in critical
care, addressing the needs of both novice and expert practitioners and
recognising the roles that different disciplines contribute to the
provision of effective care.
The
Manual provides guidelines on core critical care procedures based on
the best available evidence for each procedure and includes a
patient-centred competency framework, as well as fundamental and
specific competencies to enable practitioners to assess their abilities
and expertise. Each chapter provides a comprehensive overview, beginning
with basic principles and progressing to more complex ideas, to support
practitioners to develop their knowledge, skills and competencies in
critical care.
An
essential clinical companion for all healthcare practitioners caring
for critically ill patients, the Manual is the definitive resource on
critical care clinical skills procedures.
Key features:-
- Provides essential evidence-based procedures for all critical care practitioners.
- Includes a robust competency framework and fundamental competencies that can be used by all disciplines.
- Provides specific competencies for critical care procedures.
- Underpins best practice by drawing on the best available evidence.
- Follows a systematic approach to providing care.
- Facilitates the development of critical care knowledge and skills.
- Provides benchmarks to help assess and develop clinical practice.
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