New to ICU® 2.0 — The Visual Guide to Critical Care Nursing
New to ICU® 2.0 — The Visual Guide to Critical Care Nursing
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Any book option — the printed spiral-bound book (full colour, lies completely flat, sized for your work bag), shipped free, plus the complete eBook emailed instantly so you can start tonight.
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New to ICU® 2.0 — The Visual Guide to Critical Care Nursing
What's inside
What's inside
Airway & ventilation · hemodynamics & cardiac · drips and critical medications · renal & CRRT · neuro & assessment · emergencies and procedures.
Every machine, line, drip and waveform drawn out, labelled, and explained in plain English. The eBook is the complete book — every page, nothing held back.
Is this for me?
Is this for me?
Built for new grads starting a critical care residency, nurses transferring in from med-surg, ER or PACU, travel nurses meeting unfamiliar equipment, and students who want a head start.
It assumes you know nursing fundamentals and nothing about ICU equipment. That is the whole point.
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Shipping & delivery
Shipping is free on every option. Printed orders are processed in 1–2 business days and typically arrive in 5–9 business days within the US, with tracking emailed automatically.
eBooks — whether bought on their own or included free with a book — are emailed within minutes of checkout.
30-day guarantee
30-day guarantee
Order it. Take it to work. If it doesn't make a single shift easier within 30 days, email us and we'll refund you in full. No forms, no restocking fee. This covers every option, including the eBook.
Nursing school never showed you what any of it looks like
You walk into a room with a vent, three drips, an art line, a CRRT machine and a patient who is actively getting worse. Then you do what every new ICU nurse does — you nod, you google in the bathroom, and you wait for your preceptor to finish with the other patient.
This book is the shortcut you were never given. Every machine, line, drip and waveform in critical care, drawn out and labelled, so the room stops being a mystery.
Critical care is a visual job. Your reference should be too.
You look at a waveform and decide something. You trace a circuit to find the problem. You glance at a pump and know whether to worry. None of that is a paragraph — it is a picture.
So every page here is drawn. Vent modes and what each setting actually does. Arterial and central lines, with the waveform shapes that mean trouble. The CRRT circuit, filter and alarms. Pressors, sedatives and paralytics, with what to watch for.
Spiral-bound, because your hands are busy
A textbook snaps shut the second you let go of it. This one lies completely flat on a counter, open to the page you need, while you do something else with your hands.
It is sized to live in a work bag or a locker, not on a shelf at home. And the complete eBook comes with it free, so the whole thing is on your phone too.
Your first year in the ICU shouldn't feel like drowning.
You passed the NCLEX. You got the job. And then you walked into a room with a vent, three drips, an art line, a CRRT machine, and a patient who is actively getting worse — and realized nursing school never actually showed you what any of it looks like.
So you do what every new ICU nurse does. You nod. You google in the bathroom. You wait for your preceptor to finish with the other patient. You go home and lie awake replaying the shift, wondering what you missed.
This book is the shortcut you were never given: every machine, line, drip, and waveform in critical care — drawn out, labeled, and explained in plain English.
Why a visual guide changes everything
Critical care is a visual job. Your reference should be too.
| The 900-page textbook | New to ICU 2.0 |
|---|---|
| Walls of text you read once and forget | Hand-drawn diagrams you actually remember |
| Written for exams | Written for 3 a.m. at the bedside |
| Too heavy to bring to work | Spiral-bound — lies flat, fits your bag |
| Ten minutes to find one answer | Flip straight to the picture of the thing |
| Leaves you knowing about the ICU | Leaves you able to work in the ICU |
What's inside the 2.0 Edition
Every page is illustrated. Nothing is buried.
Airway & Ventilation
Intubation setup, ETT and trach anatomy, the laryngoscope tray, vent modes and what each setting actually does, and what the alarm is trying to tell you.
Hemodynamics & Cardiac
Arterial lines, central lines, waveform shapes and what a bad one means, lead placement, and reading the monitor without guessing.
Drips & Critical Medications
The pressors, sedatives and paralytics you'll hang on night one — what they do, how they're titrated, and what to watch for.
Renal & CRRT
The dialysis machine demystified — circuit, access, filters, and the alarms that make new nurses panic.
Neuro & Assessment
Neuro checks that actually mean something, ICP concepts, sedation scales, and how to chart a change you can defend.
Emergencies & Procedures
Proning, chest tubes, blood product administration, restraints and positioning, and what your hands do first when things go sideways.
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Who this is for
- You just got hired into an ICU or stepdown unit
- You're a new grad heading into a critical care residency
- You transferred from med-surg, ER, or PACU
- You're a travel nurse walking into unfamiliar equipment
- You're a nursing student who wants a head start
- You're a preceptor who's tired of explaining the vent again
- You've been in critical care 10+ years and teach it
- You want a CCRN question bank — this isn't an exam prep book
- You want dense pharmacology tables with no pictures
- You're looking for something to replace your hospital's protocols — this supplements them, it doesn't override them
The 30-Day First Shift Guarantee
Order it. Take it to work. Use it on a real patient assignment.
If it doesn't make you feel more prepared within 30 days, email us and we'll refund you in full. You're risking nothing but the time it takes to open the box.
Questions nurses ask before ordering
You're going to learn this either way.
The only question is whether you learn it from a book on a slow morning —
or from a patient who's crashing while you're still figuring out what the alarm means.
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Educational reference for licensed clinicians and nursing students. Not medical advice and not a substitute for your facility's policies, protocols, or provider orders. Always practice within your scope and your institution's standards.