Critical Care Outreach gives a comprehensive overview of this new area of critical care practice. The book is written by expert critical care nurses and doctors who have included case studies that demonstrate innovations in practice and useful examples of how the challenges faced in outreach can be managed.

Critical Care Outreach provides prompts for critical thinking and tips to enhance and develop individual practice and clinical service effectiveness.

Contents

The Evolution of Critical Care Outreach

1. The Origins of critical care outreach
2. Designing an Outreach Service
   Audit Case Study: Scoring all observations compared with scoring on concern

Clinical Practice in Critical Care Outreach

3. Assessing and managing the ‘at risk patient’
4. Specific clinical problems
5. Sharing Critical Care Skills
   Case study: Use of a clinical simulator
6. Role Expansion and the Critical Care Outreach
   Expanding the role of the nurse in Critical Care Outreach: A Case study

Continuity of Care for the Critically Ill

7. Transfering patients from critical care to the ward
8. Critical care follow up
9. Patient Diaries

Managing and Supporting Outreach Practitioners

10. Establishing and Managing a Critical Care Outreach Team: A Practical Approach
    Case study: The role of the physiotherapist in the critical care outreach team
11. The Learning Needs of Critical Care Outreach Practitioners

Developing and Evaluating Critical Care Outreach

12. Managing Change in Critical Care Outreach: A Toolkit for Practice
13. Evaluation of Critical Care Outreach: Are the Resources for Outreach Justified?

Index

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