Includes tables.

Critical care nursing practice -- Ethical issues -- Legal issues -- Patient/family education -- Psychosocial alterations -- Sleep alterations and management -- Nutrition alterations and management -- Pain and pain management -- Agitation and sedation management -- End-of-life issues -- The pediatric patient in the adult critical care unit -- High-risk and critical care in obstetric issues -- Gerontologic alterations and management -- Perianesthesia management -- Cardiovascular anatomy and physiology -- Cardiovascular clinical assessment -- Cardiovascular diagnostic procedures -- Cardiovascular disorders -- Cardiovascular therapeutic management -- Pulmonary anatomy and physiology -- Pulmonary clinical assessment -- Pulmonary diagnostic procedures -- Pulmonary disorders -- Pulmonary therapeutic management -- Neurologic anatomy and physiology -- Neurologic clinical assessment and diagnostic procedures -- Neurologic disorders and therapeutic management -- Renal anatomy and physiology -- Renal clinical assessment and diagnostic procedures -- Renal disorders and therapeutic management -- Gastrointestinal anatomy and physiology -- Gastrointestinal clinical assessment and diagnostic procedures -- Gastrointestinal disorders and therapeutic management -- Endocrine anatomy and physiology -- Endocrine clinical assessment and diagnostic procedures -- Endocrine disorders and therapeutic management -- Trauma -- Shock -- Systemic inflammatory response syndrome and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome -- Burns -- Organ donation and transplantation -- Hematologic disorders and oncologic emergencies.