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Critical Care and Flight Nursing.

Use this guide to find information resources about critical care and flight nursing including books, reports and journal articles.

Last updated: 17/09/2024

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RCN: Introducing critical care
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Royal College of Nursing (no date) RCN position on self-isolation of in-flight nursing crews. London: RCN.

Key Resources

Blumlein D and Griffiths (2022) Shock: aetiology, pathophysiology and management, British Journal Of Nursing, 31(8), pp. 422–428.
Elearning for healthcare (no date) Critical care intravenous therapy. 
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2024) Sepsis: recognition, diagnosis and early management. NICE guideline NG51.
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The UK Sepsis Trust: Clinical tools
Critical Care Network National Nurse Leads (2015) National competency framework for registered nurses in adult critical care (Step competency framework), (no place): CC3N.
Intensive Care Society and The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (2019) The transfer of the critically ill adult. London: ICS.

The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (2022) Guidelines for the provision of intensive care services. Version 2.1. London: FICM.

Royal College of Physicians (2017) National Early Warning Score (NEWS) 2: Standardising the assessment of acute-illness severity in the NHS. Updated report of a working party. London: RCP.
We would like to thank the RCN Critical Care and Flight Nursing member community for their input into the development of this subject guide.

Books

Freeman-Essentials-of-nursing-critically-ill Freeman S, Steen C and Bleakley G (2022) Essentials of nursing critically ill adults. Los Angeles: SAGE.
Leach-Critical-care-medicine Leach R M (2023) Critical care medicine at a glance. 4th edn. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell. 
Peate-Fundamentals-of-applied-pathophysiology Migliozzi J (2021) ‘Shock’, in Peate I (ed.) Fundamentals of applied pathophysiology. 4th edn. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 130-152.
Myers-Clinical-cases Myers A and Samuels T (2023) Clinical cases in critical care. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell. 
Book cover Adam S, Osborne S, Welch J (editors) (2017) Critical care nursing: science and practice (3rd edition), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Book cover Evans C (2016) Oxford specialist handbook of retrieval medicine, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Book cover Finch J (2017) Acute and critical care nursing at a glance, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Book cover Good V and Kirkwood P L (eds.) (2018) Advanced critical care nursing. 2nd edn. St. Louis: Elsevier.
Book cover Hickman R (2018) Handbook of clinical nursing: critical and emergency care nursing, New York: Springer.
Book cover Parsons P and Wiener-Kronish J (eds.) (2018) Critical care secrets. 6th edn. Amsteram: Elsevier.
Sole M L, Klein D G, Moseley M J, Makic M B F and Morata L T (2021) Introduction to critical care nursing. 8th edn. St. Louis: Elsevier.
Book cover Tait D, Williams C, Barton D and James J (2022) Acute and critical care in adult nursing. 3rd edn. London: Learning Matters.
Urden L, Stacy K and Lough M (eds.) (2022) Critical care nursing: diagnosis and management. 9th ed. Maryland Heights: Elsevier.

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