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RCN: Introducing critical care

• This programme will provide the participant with resources to support an introduction to critical care for the nursing and midwifery workforce. It is free for everyone to access.
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RCN: COVID-19 (coronovirus)

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天美传媒 (no date) RCN position on self-isolation of in-flight nursing crews. London: RCN.

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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.

• Please check that guidance is applicable for your country. NICE guidance is officially England and Wales only.
  

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.

Freeman S, Steen C and Bleakley G (2022) Essentials of nursing critically ill adults. Los Angeles: SAGE.

Leach R M (2023) Critical care medicine at a glance. 4th edn. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell. 

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Migliozzi J (2021) ‘Shock’, in Peate I (ed.) Fundamentals of applied pathophysiology. 4th edn. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 130-152.

Myers A and Samuels T (2023) Clinical cases in critical care. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell. 

Adam S, Osborne S, Welch J (editors) (2017) Critical care nursing: science and practice (3rd edition), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Evans C (2016) Oxford specialist handbook of retrieval medicine, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Finch J (2017) Acute and critical care nursing at a glance, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Good V and Kirkwood P L (eds.) (2018) Advanced critical care nursing. 2nd edn. St. Louis: Elsevier.

Hickman R (2018) Handbook of clinical nursing: critical and emergency care nursing, New York: Springer.

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.

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.

Use these links to see details of books on each topic.

Journals of interest for continence care. Use these links to see details of availability. 

Journals of interest for continence care. Use these links to see details of availability.

Critical care reviews : newsletter, meeting presentations, studies, review articles, guidelines and more

The bottom line: summaries and critiques of landmark papers on critical care