MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING has maintained a long standing tradition as a solid, well respected, comprehensive text. Detailed content focuses on presenting the complete diagnosis and treatment of the most common conditions encountered in the care of adults. The book is well known for its solid, balanced presentation of the medical and nursing management and its in-depth coverage of pathophysiology. The sixth edition features a full-colour and streamlined design to enhance the overall visual appeal. Important changes ...
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MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING has maintained a long standing tradition as a solid, well respected, comprehensive text. Detailed content focuses on presenting the complete diagnosis and treatment of the most common conditions encountered in the care of adults. The book is well known for its solid, balanced presentation of the medical and nursing management and its in-depth coverage of pathophysiology. The sixth edition features a full-colour and streamlined design to enhance the overall visual appeal. Important changes incorporated throughout include collaborative management, patient/family teaching, and health promotion and prevention to address today's nursing practice. Features: * Provides a consistent disorder format presentation for both medical and nursing management to facilitate student learning and understanding of key concepts. * Employs a consistent 5-step nursing process format to encourage students to develop a practice-oriented, problem-solving approach to patient care. * Nursing Care Plans include clinical situations and use nursing diagnosis and expected outcomes to guide the student in selecting interventions for patients with specific disorders. * Home care considerations are presented in a dedicated chapter and integrated throughout as a special subheading in the presentation of major conditions to provide the student with information to help the patient and family manage a condition in the home. * Gerontologic considerations are presented in a dedicated chapter and integrated throughout as a special subheading in the presentation of major conditions to provide an understanding of the older adult's special care needs. * Consistent pedagogy includes Chapter Objectives at the beginning of each chapter and Chapter Summaries and Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each chapter to enhance learning and to reinforce critical thinking skills. * Research boxes are integrated throughout to provide applications to today's nursing practice. New to this edition: * NEW attractive, Full-Color Design and illustration program enhances the overall visual appeal. * Interactive CD-ROM packaged free with the book includes critical thinking case studies, matching and fill-in-the blank questions, NCLEX review questions, and a vocabulary review with sound pronunciations. * Collaborative Management heading in the presentation of each condition stresses the importance of collaboration in care. * Patient/Family Teaching is integrated throughout in special boxes and in special subheadings to Nursing Interventions to provide students with critical information to include in teaching patients and their families about care of conditions. * Health Promotion & Prevention is integrated throughout as a special head to Patient/Family Education and in boxed summaries of Healthy People 2000 goals to highlight important information related to promoting healthy lifestyles and preventing disease. * Incorporates actual examples of 18 critical pathways in the body system chapters to provide students with samples of this collaborative clinical tool. * New Chapter 2, Cultural Care Nursing, provides the most up-to-date information for understanding cultural diversity in providing adult health care. * Guidelines for Care boxes provide step by step instructions for the nurse. * Common Medication boxes highlight drugs commonly used to treat specific conditions. * Clinical Manifestation boxes summarize important indications related to specific conditions. * Gerontologic Assessment boxes in each assessment chapter highlight unique elements to consider in care of the older adult. * Risk Factor boxes alert the student to important considerations in the care of specific conditions. * Critical Care Management included, where appropriate, within the Evaluation stage of the nursing process stresses important considerations for the critically ill patient within the critical care environment.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 3750grams, ISBN: 9780323003100.
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