Nursing Care of the Acutely Ill and Deteriorating Patient

      Patient assessment (how do the scoring systems work and what do they relate to exactly?)
      Clinical decision making (essential for students who cannot prioritize)
      The breathless patient / respiratory support
      The patient with chest pain / cardiac arrest
      The patient in pain
      The patient in shock
      The patient with sepsis and distributive shock
      The patient with delirium
      The patient with acute kidney injury
  The patient with physiological trauma
  The patient with altered consciousness
  The patient with an overdose
  The patient with an endocrine disorder
  Safe transfer of patients
  Sudden death and end-of-life care
  Professionalism, accountability, law and teamwork
  Vulnerability and safeguarding
  Human Factors and error in the acute environment
  Conclusion
Answers to end-of-chapter assessment
Glossary