Prentice Hall Nursing Reviews & Rationales: Medical-Surgical Nursing (2nd Edition)

Prentice Hall Nursing Reviews & Rationales: Medical-Surgical Nursing (2nd Edition)

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Essential for NCLEX, course and competencey review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of medical-surgical nursing. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post chapter tests with comprehensive rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts and new test-taking strategies. Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering nursing care for respiratory, cardiac, neurological, renal, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, and other health problems, emergency and critical care, and much more.

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Prentice Hall's Nursing Review & Rationales Series is the complete foundation for success within the classroom, in clinical settings and on the NCLEX-RN exam. Each topical volume offers a concentrated review of core content from across the nursing curriculum, while providing hundreds of practice questions and comprehensive rationales. The only review series offering a tear-out reference card and additional audio reviews, the complete series includes the following volumes:

• Nursing Fundamentals
• Anatomy & Physiology 
• Child Health Nursing
• Fluids, Electrolytes, & Acid-Base Balance
• Maternal-Newborn Nursing
• Medical-Surgical Nursing
• Mental Health Nursing
• Nutrition & Diet Therapy
• Pathophysiology
• Pharmacology
• Physical Assessment
• Community Health Nursing
• Leadership & Management
• Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-RN
• Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-PN
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Medical-Surgical Nursing: Patient-Centered Collaborative Care, 7th Edition

Clinical Decision-Making Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Patient-Centered Collaborative Care, 7e

Author : Donna D. Ignatavicius MS RN ANEF, Patricia B. Conley, Amy H. Lee RN MSN, Donna Rose

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Designed to accompany Ignatavicius and Workman's Medical-Surgical Nursing: Patient-Centered Collaborative Care, 7th Edition, this study guide helps you understand and apply material from each chapter in the text, and gives you added support as you learn to make safe and effective clinical decisions.

• Study/review questions provide a review of key content using a variety of question formats, including a high percentage of questions in traditional and alternate NCLEX^® Examination formats. Answers are provided in the back of the book.
• Case studies in most chapters give you the opportunity to apply higher-level thinking skills to true-to-life clinical scenarios.

• NEW! Increased emphasis on clinical decision-making prepares you to confidently make safe and effective decisions in clinical practice.
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Medical-Surgical Nursing: Patient-Centered Collaborative Care, Single Volume, 6e

Medical-Surgical Nursing: Patient-Centered Collaborative Care, Single Volume, 6e

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Written by two expert authors, this trend-setting textbook of medical-surgical nursing offers cutting-edge content that's easy to understand. The sixth edition includes a new emphasis on clinical decision-making for patient-centered collaborative care and more streamlined and balanced coverage of the core body of knowledge needed for safe clinical practice. There is also expanded coverage of emergency and disaster preparedness along with an enhanced "Get Ready for the NCLEX Examination” feature that includes the addition of new NCLEX Challenge questions.

• UNIQUE! A collaborative approach that presents all medical, surgical, nursing, and other interventions through the lens of the nursing process.
• A reader-friendly, direct writing style makes this one of the most readable medical-surgical textbooks on the market.
• Chapter-opening Learning Outcomes are linked to Self-Assessment Questions for the NCLEX Examination on the companion CD and EVOLVE website.
• Unique chapter-ending Get Ready for the NCLEX Examination! sections include Key Points lists organized by NCLEX Client Needs Categories.
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Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Management for Positive Outcomes

Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Management for Positive Outcomes (Single Volume), 8th Edition

Joyce M. Black PhD RN CPSN CWCN FAPWCA (Author), Jane Hokanson Hawks DNSc RN BC (Author) 


Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Management for Positive Outcomes (Single Volume), 8th Edition


Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Management for Positive Outcomes, 8th Edition takes you from basic to advanced medical-surgical nursing with an enhanced multimedia package that makes it easier to learn and apply concepts. This text provides a reliable foundation in anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, medical management, and nursing care for the full spectrum of adult health conditions. The roles of various healthcare professionals in managing each disorder and are clearly outlined, and evidence-based practice and clinical guidelines are integrated throughout the text.

• UNIQUE! Evidence-Based Practice icons identify statements based on primary research or standardized guidelines and teach you to base your practice on solid research evidence.
• Translating Evidence into Practice boxes present a topic in the form of a clinical question and summarize the conclusions of 4-5 research articles, encouraging you to judge the research for yourself and consider how it relates to the nursing setting.
• Care Plans highlight nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems, expected outcomes, interventions with rationales, and evaluation to help you prioritize tasks and determine the appropriate treatment.
• Thinking Critically questions at the end of each nursing care chapter pose short, typical client scenarios followed by questions about what actions to take to test your critical thinking skills.
• Concept Maps illustrate the links among pathophysiological processes, clinical manifestations, medical treatment, and nursing interventions.
• Integrating Pharmacology boxes help you understand how medications can be used for disease management by exploring common classifications of routinely used medications.
• Bridge to Critical Care and Bridge to Home Health Care boxes introduce you to critical care and home health nursing by connecting these related specialties to medical-surgical nursing.
• Feature boxes highlight issues in Critical Monitoring, Management and Delegation, Genetics, Terrorism, Community-Based Practice, and Physical Assessment in the Healthy Adult.

• UNIQUE! Completely revised and newly illustrated chapter on structural cardiac disorders provides the latest information on the expected outcomes of transplantation and the related nursing care.
• UNIQUE! Chapter on management of clients with integumentary disorders includes author Joyce Black's cutting-edge research on pressure ulcers.
• Chapter on critical thinking helps you to establish a foundation for high-level nursing care.
• Expanded infectious diseases chapter includes vital content on bioterrorism.
• Revised health assessment chapter introduces the assessment format used throughout the text.
• NIC and NOC labels incorporated throughout in the Nursing Care Plans demonstrate the application of these standardized nursing taxonomies to everyday clinical practice.
• UNIQUE! Integrating Diagnostic Studies boxes in every assessment chapter provide examples of laboratory and imaging studies that may be ordered during the course of a client's illness.
• Safety Alert icons identify common hospital emergencies and The Joint Commission's patient safety goals and sentinel events to help you keep your patients safe.

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Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Patient Care

Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Patient Care  (5th Edition) [Hardcover]

Priscilla LeMone (Author), Karen M. Burke (Author), Gerene Bauldoff (Author)

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Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Patient Care, 5e has been revised and updated to provide the knowledge and skills needed to care for adult patients to promote health, facilitate recovery from illness and injury, and provide support when coping with disability or loss. Throughout the text, the authors make every effort to communicate that both nurses and patients may be male or female; and that patients require holistic, individualized care regardless of their age; gender; or racial, cultural, or socioeconomic background. The goal of the fifth edition is to provide the knowledge and resources that ensure a solid base for critical thinking and clinical judgment and that can be applied to provide safe, individualized, and competent clinical nursing care. Multiple learning strategies have been developed to facilitate success–audio, illustrations, teaching tips, and video and animation media. Understandable language and a consistent format are used, and students overwhelmingly report that they actually like reading the text.

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Understanding Medical-Surgical Nursing

Understanding Medical-Surgical Nursing

Linda Williams (Author), Paula Hopper (Author)

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The 4th Edition of this groundbreaking textbook continues to teach the "why" of medical-surgical nursing more effectively than any other resource in the field. It presents complex issues in a clear and easy-to-understand manner that encourages students to think critically while applying theory to clinical practice. New chapters, new features, and new content fill the pages from cover to cover while a bonus CD-ROM in every book and a wealth of resources online at DavisPlus create a true multimedia learning experience. Rely on the Study Guide (sold separately) to master the principles, concepts, and skills that are the foundation of a nursing education. Each chapter corresponds to a chapter in the textbook and features vocabulary exercises, connection and critical-thinking question and documentation exercises.

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Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing

Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing (Two Volume Set) Twelfth Edition

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Suzanne C. Smeltzer (Author), Brenda Bare (Author), Janice L. Hinkle (Author), Kerry H. Cheever (Author)

Now in its 12th edition, Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing is designed to assist nurses in preparing for their roles and responsibilities in the medical-surgical setting. This leading textbook focuses on physiological, pathophysiological, and psychosocial concepts as they relate to nursing care. Brunner is known for its strong Nursing Process focus and its readability. This edition retains these strengths and incorporates enhanced visual appeal and better portability for students.


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Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems

Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, Single Volume, 8e (MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING (LEWIS))

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Sharon L. Lewis (Author), Shannon Ruff Dirksen (Author), Margaret M. Heitkemper (Author), Linda Bucher (Author), Ian Camera (Author) 

Written by a dedicated team of expert authors led by Sharon Lewis, Medical-Surgical Nursing, 8th Edition offers up-to-date coverage of the latest trends, hot topics, and clinical developments in the field, to help you provide exceptional care in today's fast-paced health care environment. Completely revised and updated content explores patient care in various clinical settings and focuses on key topics such as prioritization, clinical decision-making, patient safety, and NCLEX® exam preparation. A variety of helpful boxes and tables make it easy to find essential information and the accessible writing style makes even complex concepts easy to grasp! Best of all - a complete collection of interactive learning and study tools help you learn more effectively and offer valuable, real-world preparation for clinical practice.

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• Provides a strong foundation in medical-surgical nursing in a highly readable format.
• All content is written and reviewed by leading experts in the field to ensure that information is comprehensive, current, and clinically accurate.
• Colorful design and over 1,400 full-color illustrations clearly demonstrate disease processes and related anatomy and physiology.
• UNIQUE! A complete collection of study tools and resources, including the innovative Stress-Busting Kit for Nursing Students, offers engaging, interactive exercises and activities that make learning more effective and help prepare you for clinical practice.
• UNIQUE! Presents key nursing management content using a "levels of care" approach that explains how nursing care varies for different levels of health and illness.
• Approximately 55 comprehensive nursing care plans incorporate NIC, NOC, and current NANDA diagnoses, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, specific nursing interventions with rationales, evaluation criteria, and collaborative problems.
• Bridge to NCLEX Examination Review Questions at the end of each chapter focus on prioritization and help reinforce your understanding of key content.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes summarize key interdisciplinary research and clearly demonstrate how it applies to nursing practice.
• Collaborative Management headings and Collaborative Care tables emphasize the importance of total patient care in today's health care settings and provide a clear understanding of each provider's role in managing disorders.
• Drug Alert boxes highlight important considerations applicable to key drugs.
• Healthy People boxes summarize government health care goals as they relate to specific disorders and identify important strategies for the prevention and early detection of diseases.
• Drug Therapy tables highlight vital medication information for quick reference.
• Nutritional Therapy tables summarize nutritional interventions and strategies for promoting healthy lifestyles in patients with various conditions.
• Cultural and ethnic health disparities content includes a dedicated chapter on health disparities and culturally competent care, as well as summary boxes highlighting important issues (including risk factors) related to the nursing care of various ethnic populations.
• Extensive gerontologic content discusses age-related changes for each body system and alerts you to differences often encountered in older patients.
• Emergency Management tables outline the treatment of health problems most likely to create medical emergencies.
• Health History tables summarize the key questions you should ask, as well as important assessment parameters.
• Patient and Caregiver Teaching Guides provide critical information to help you educate others who will be helping to care for the patient.
• Ethical Dilemmas boxes promote critical thinking for timely and sensitive issues such as informed consent, patient adherence, guardianship, confidentiality, and sterilization.
• Complementary and Alternative Therapies boxes summarize what you need to know about the clinical uses, effects, and nursing implications of herbal remedies, acupuncture, biofeedback, and more
• Genetics in Clinical Practice boxes cover key topics such as genetic testing, Alzheimer's disease, sickle cell disease, and genetics-related ethics issues.
• A glossary of key terms and definitions in the back of the book provides definitions and page references.
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• Completely revised and revamped content is more readable, concise, and user-friendly.
• Reorganized coverage reflects an increased emphasis on more common disorders versus rare disorders.
• An increased focus on prioritization is featured throughout the text and in the review questions, nursing care plans, and case studies.
• Expanded coverage of delegation includes Delegation Decisions boxes throughout the text that highlight specific topics and skills related to delegation.
• End-of-chapter Clinical Decision-Making Exercises feature case scenarios that emphasize prioritization, delegation, and concept mapping.
• End-of-chapter review sections now feature alternate item-format questions.
• Safety Alerts highlight patient safety issues and focus on the latest National Patient Safety Goals.
• Pathophysiology Map flow charts make it easier to visualize and understand changes occurring in major diseases.
• Focused Assessment boxes reflect a realistic "assessment on the run" approach and offer brief checklists for evaluating the status of previously identified health problems and monitoring for signs of new problems.
• Assessment Case Studies for all assessment chapters help reinforce the importance of integrating and prioritizing assessment findings.
• UNIQUE! A separate Sleep and Sleep Disorders chapter expands upon this key topic that impacts multiple disorders and body systems, as well as nearly every aspect of daily functioning.
• UNIQUE! The Patient and Caregiver Teaching chapter emphasizes the increasing importance and prevalence of patient management of chronic illnesses and conditions, as well as the role of the caregiver in patient care.
• The Emergency, Terrorism, and Disaster Nursing chapter features expanded coverage of terrorism.
• Revised Infection chapter features updated infection control guidelines, an expanded section on emerging and reemerging infections, and new information about prions and H1N1 flu.
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