Full Description
Medical-Surgical NursingEdition is appropriate for courses in medical-surgical nursing. It also serves as a helpful reference for practicing nurses.Improving clinical reasoning; focusing on what a new nurse needs to knowMedical-Surgical Nursing provides readers with all of the practical knowledge and skills they need to care for adult patients-without overwhelming readers with unnecessarily dense writing that is beyond the beginning nurse's scope of practice. Carefully selected content focuses on the things that new nurses will need to know when they first enter practice: how to promote health, facilitate recovery from illness and injury, and provide support when coping with disability or loss. Throughout the text, the authors focus on individualized holistic nursing care as the essential element in learning and practicing nursing, regardless of the gender, age, race, culture, or socioeconomic background of the patient or practitioner. Readers are given the tools they need to develop their clinical reasoning abilities so that they can make safe and effective decisions on the job. With its understandable language, visual approach, and consistent teaching and learning format, it's no surprise that readers overwhelmingly report that they truly like reading this text. Medical-Surgical Nursing is available packaged with MyNursingLab (R), an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program that engages students in learning. It helps students review, remember and apply key concepts and skills-resulting in better performance in the course-and provides educators with a dynamic set of tools for gauging individual and class progress. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyNursingLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.Teaching and Learning ExperienceTo provide a better teaching and learning experience, for both instructors and students, this program will help:Improve Results: MyNursingLab better prepares students for the classroom, and beyond.Develop Clinical Reasoning Skills for Today and Tomorrow: Students are encouraged to think creatively and critically about patient care.Visualize Pathophysiology: A highly-visual presentation of the underlying pathophysiology of disease helps bring the content to life, enhancing students' understanding and aiding in clinical application.Focus on Nursing Care: The authors emphasize holistic, individualized care for all patients.
Contents
Part 1? Medical-Surgical Nursing PracticeUnit I? Dimensions of Medical-Surgical NursingUnit 2? Informatics and Evidence-based Practice in NursingUnit 3 Health and Illness Care of Adults?Part II Nutritional-Metabolic Patterns Unit 4 Responses to Altered Integumentary FunctionUnit 5 Responses to Altered Endocrine FunctionUnit 6 Responses to Altered Gastrointestinal Function?Part III Elimination PatternsUnit 7 Responses to Altered Urinary Elimination?Part IV Activity-Exercise PatternsUnit 8 Responses to Altered Cardiovascular FunctionUnit 9 Responses to Altered Respiratory FunctionUnit 10 Responses to Altered Musculoskeletal Function?Part V? Cognitive-Perceptual PatternsUnit 11 Responses to Altered Neurologic FunctionUnit 12 Responses to Altered Eye and Ear Function?Part VI Sexuality-Reproductive PatternsUnit 13 Responses to Altered Sexual-Reproductive Function
