Cover Article:

Dawn Vollers, Edie Hill, Cynthia Roberts, Lori Dambaugh, and Zara R. Brenner

AACN’s Healthy Work Environment Standards and an Empowering Nurse Advancement System
An empowering clinical nurse advancement system can facilitate institutional behaviors that embrace all of AACN’s healthy work environment.
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 20-27, doi: 10.4037/ccn200263 [Full Text] [PDF] [CE Test]  

Features:

Cheryl Hoyt Zambroski, Pamela Combs, Sherill Nones Cronin, and Carole Pfeffer

Edgar Allan Poe, "The Pit and the Pendulum," and Ventricular Assist Devices
Nurses must target interventions toward reducing the uncertainty associated with living with a ventricular assist device.
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 29-39, doi: 10.4037/ccn2009249 [Full Text] [PDF] [CE Test]  

Karen G. Mellott, Mary Jo Grap, Cindy L. Munro, Curtis N. Sessler, and Paul A. Wetzel

Patient-Ventilator Dyssynchrony: Clinical Significance and Implications for Practice
Nurses continue to face the challenge of preventing the consequences of patient-ventilator dyssynchrony, which is common yet underappreciated in critically ill patients.
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 41-55, doi: 10.4037/ccn2009612 [Full Text] [PDF] [CE Test]  

Management:

Peggy Siegele

Enhancing Outcomes in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit by Implementing Daily Goals Tools
Successful teamwork requires strategic communication to address and meet common goals for patient care.
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 58-69, doi: 10.4037/ccn2009663 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorial:

Grif Alspach

Extending the Tradition of Giving Thanks Recognizing the Health Benefits of Gratitude
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 12-18, doi: 10.4037/ccn2009331 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ask the Experts:

Teresa Wavra and Mary Kay Bader

Bolus Cardiac Output and Accuracy in Therapeutic Hypothermia
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 71-73, doi: 10.4037/ccn2009817 [Full Text] [PDF]  

In Our Unit:

Martha Jurchak and Mary Pennington

Fostering Moral Agency in New Intensive Care Unit Nurses
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 80-79, doi: 10.4037/ccn2009519 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Contributors:

Contributors
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 8 [PDF]  

News & Resources:

News & Resources
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 10 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Call for Papers:

Call for Papers
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 19 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book Reviews:

Linda Bell

Nurse to Nurse: Trauma Care: Nayduch D. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Medical; 2009. Softcover; 622 pages. ISBN: 978-0-07-159677-0
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 74, doi: 10.4037/ccn2009494 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Searching Skills Toolkit: Finding the Evidence: De Brun C, Pearce-Smith N. Oxford, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell; 2009. Softcover, 128 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4051-7888-4
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 74-75 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Why Retire? Career Strategies for Third Age Nurses: Bower FL, Sadler WA. Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International; 2009. Softcover, 191 pages. ISBN: 1930538-76-6
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 75 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Saving Lives: Why the Media’s Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk: Summers S, Summers HJ. New York, NY: Kaplan Publishers; 2009. Hard-cover, 336 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4277-9845-9
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 75 [Full Text] [PDF]  

New Products:

New Products
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 78 [PDF]  

Education Directory:

Education Directory
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 75 [PDF]  

2009 Peer Reviewers:

2009 Peer Reviewers
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 76-77 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Author and Subject Index: Volume 29, 2009:

Author and Subject Index: Volume 29, 2009
Crit Care Nurse 2009 29(6) 1-5 [PDF]