Product Review

• Focuses on the advanced clinical management of hospitalized patients that fall between primary care and critical care.


• Encompasses all aspects of acute care, including non-disease causes of illness and medical conditions.


• Describes the CNS’s three spheres of influence: The Patient, Nursing/Healthcare Professional, and Organization/System, and uses a change agency, data-driven model for nursing and organizational leadership to address the nursing/healthcare professional and organizational/system sphere that CNSs can influence.


• Integrates the seven core competencies of the CNS as described by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN).


• Uses a body systems approach that covers pathophysiology, clinical presentation, nursing interventions, as well as pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic management strategies for each disorder define the CNS role as it relates to the patient.


• Features tables highlighting practice guidelines and treatment algorithms.


• Includes methods of data aggregation, use of research, and guidelines to improve outcomes and quality of care.