Medical Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems (2 Volume Set)

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Lewis (nursing, U. of Texas Health Science Center), Heitkemper (biobehavioral nursing and health systems, U. of Washington), and Dirksen (nursing, Arizona State U.) present the new edition of their nursing school textbook thematically organized around the concept of the nursing process. The first section discusses general concepts related to adult patients. The bulk of the material is devoted to nursing assessment and nursing management of medical-surgical problems, grouped by body systems. The CD-ROM contains case studies, a glossary, a list of nursing diagnoses, a laboratory values reference, and self-testing materials.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Description
This book contains solid, research-based content presented in a concise, readable, and consistent format. Special features highlight the content that is most relevant and challenging for today's nursing students, including patient teaching, community and home care, gerontology, cultural and ethnic considerations, collaborative care, nutrition, and critical thinking. Nursing management content is discussed in a unique levels-of-care approach, with separate headings for Health Promotion, Acute Intervention, and Ambulatory and Home Care. More than just a textbook, it is a comprehensive resource with the essential information that students need to prepare for lectures, classroom activities, examinations, clinical assignments, and comprehensive care of patients.

Book Info
Univ. of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Brandon/Hill Nursing List selection (#174). Textbook provides accurate and current information on nursing care management. Provides more than 60 nursing care plans and includes learning and review features in every chapter. Includes new material on end-of-life care, cultural issues, and dementia. Previous edition: c2000.

About the Author
Sharon Mantik Lewis, RN, PhD, FAAN, Professor, School of Nursing and Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center; Clinical Nurse Scientist, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas; Margaret McLean Heitkemper, RN, PhD, FAAN, Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, School of Nursing; Adjunct Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; and Shannon Ruff Dirksen, RN, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona


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This book contains solid, research-based content presented in a concise, readable, and consistent format. Special features highlight the content that is most relevant and challenging for today's nursing students, including patient teaching, community and home care, gerontology, cultural and ethnic considerations, collaborative care, nutrition, and critical thinking. Nursing management content is discussed in a unique levels-of-care approach, with separate headings for Health Promotion, Acute Intervention, and Ambulatory and Home Care. More than just a textbook, it is a comprehensive resource with the essential information that students need to prepare for lectures, classroom activities, examinations, clinical assignments, and comprehensive care of patients. Key Features All content is written and reviewed by leading experts in the field to ensure that information is comprehensive, current, and clinically accurate. Extensive gerontologic content identifies age-related changes for each body system and alerts the nurse to differences often encountered in older patients. Attractive four-color design and over 1,300 full-color illustrations enhance learning by presenting disease processes and related anatomy and physiology more clearly. More than 70 comprehensive nursing care plans are thoroughly updated to incorporate current NANDA diagnoses, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, specific nursing interventions with rationales, evaluation criteria, and collaborative problems. Ethical Dilemmas boxes promote critical thinking for timely and sensitive issues that nursing students will face in practice-topics such as informed consent, patient adherence, guardianship, confidentiality, and sterilization. More than 70 Patient and Family Teaching Guides provide students with critical information to include in teaching patients about care of conditions and stress points for educating family members when they will be helping to care for the patient.


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