This guide provides a summary of key nursing practices and established guidelines necessary to provide care to the spectrum of patients with COVID-19. Experts in the field offer concise and relevant information to fill current knowledge gaps.With the discovery of the novel Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and the development of the subsequent pandemic, large amounts of information have become available about the nature of the virus and how best to care for those afflicted. As nurses caring for these critically ill patients, discerning good evidence-driven data from the masses can be overwhelming, and integrating it into current guidelines can be challenging. This book is meant as a practical nursing guide for both the inpatient and outpatient settings as well as the adult and pediatric populations. This virus has progressed rapidly, causing substantial disruption on a global scale never before seen in our lifetime. Caring for these patients has proven especially challenging due to the rapid growth of research and ever evolving data that comes with the discovery of a new disease. The editors desired to produce a concise, current, and convenient resource accessible to nurses of any background, in any geographical location, which would provide a foundation for the care of patients with COVID-19.


Amanda Bergeron has over 17 years of experience in nursing and has been an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner for the past 7 years at Memorial Hermann Hospital- Texas Medical Center in Houston, TX. She has been involved in research and has published articles on nursing and ECMO. She has written several lectures for the MSN program at the University of Texas Cizik School of Nursing as well as served as clinical faculty. 
Russell Perkins has been an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner since 2020 working at Memorial Hermann in the Texas Medical Center at the Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation. Prior to this, he has been a registered nurse since 2011 with experience ranging from emergency medicine and trauma to critical care and abdominal transplantation. 
Emily Ingebretson is an acute care nurse practitioner for the past year, who began her career at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to this, she was a registered nurse for six years. She has spent the past five years working with patients with cardiopulmonary disease requiring advanced therapies, such as transplantation, at Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. She has been a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners since 2019.
Linda Holifield is a critical care nurse practitioner with 7 years of experience in cardiology and cardiac surgery, most recently with advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology at Memorial Hermann Hospital.