The mission of CRITICAL CARE NURSE, a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal, is to provide critical care and acute care nurses with accurate, relevant, and useful information concerning the bedside care of critically and acutely ill patients and to keep critical and acute care nurses informed on issues that affect their practice. By reading any issue of CRITICAL CARE NURSE, critical care and acute care nurses should benefit through increased knowledge concerning critical and acute care nursing practice and be able to use this knowledge to care for patients and their families in a more effective manner.

Critical Care Nurse (ISSN 0279-5442) is published bimonthly (February, April, June, August, October, December) by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), 101 Columbia, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656. Telephone: (949) 362-2000. FAX: (949) 362-2049. Email: ccn@aacn.org. Copyright 2017 by AACN. All rights reserved.

Critical Care Nurse is an official publication of AACN. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage retrieval system without permission of AACN. For all permission requests, please contact the Copyright Clearance Center, Customer Service, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923. (978) 750-8400. The statements and opinions contained herein are solely those of individual contributors and not of the editors or AACN. The editors and AACN assume that articles emanating from a particular institution are submitted with the approval of the requisite authority, including all matters pertaining to human studies and patient privacy requirements. Advertisements in this journal are not a warranty, endorsement, or approval of the products by the editors or AACN, who disclaim all responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas or products referred to in articles or advertisements.

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