Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, 8th Edition Hardcover - 2010

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Written by a dedicated team of expert authors led by Sharon Lewis, Medical-Surgical Nursing, 8^th 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^(R) 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.

• 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.

• 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 asses