Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
This package contains the following components:
-0132541807: Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Patient Care, Volume 1
-0135125227: MyNursingLab -- Access Card -- for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Patient Care
-0132541823: Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Patient Care, Volume 2
Table of Contents
Part 1 Medical-Surgical Nursing Practice
Unit I Dimensions of Medical-Surgical Nursing
1. Medical-Surgical Nursing in the 21st Century
2. Health and Illness in Adults
3. Community and Home-Based Care of Adults
Unit 2 Alterations in Patterns of Health
4. Nursing Care of Patients Having Surgery
5. Nursing Care of Patients Experiencing Loss, Grief and Death
6. Nursing Care of Patients with Problems of Substance Abuse
7. Nursing Care of Patients Experiencing Disasters
Unit 3 Pathophysiology and Patterns of Health
8. Genetic Implications of Nursing Care of Adults
9. Nursing Care of Patients in Pain
10. Nursing Care of Patients with Altered Fluid, Electrolyte, & Acid-Base Balance
11. Nursing Care of Patients Experiencing Trauma and Shock
12. Nursing Care of Patients with Infections
13. Nursing Care of Patients with Altered Immunity
14. Nursing Care of Patients with Cancer
Part II Nutritional-Metabolic Patterns
Unit 4 Responses to Altered Integumentary Function
15. Assessing the Integumentary System
16. Nursing Care of Patients with Integumentary Disorders
17. Nursing Care of Patients with Burns
Unit 5 Responses to Altered Endocrine Function
18. Assessing the Endcrine System
19. Nursing Care of Patients with Endocrine Disorders
20. Nursing Care of Patients with Diabetes Mellitus
Unit 6 Responses to Altered Gastrointestinal Function
21. Assessing the Gastrointestinal System
22. Nursing Care of Patients with Nutritional Disorders
23. Nursing Care of Patients with Upper Gastrointestinal Disorders
24. Nursing Care of Patients with Bowel Disorders
25. Nursing Care of Patients with Gall Bladder, Liver, & Pancreatic Disorders
Part III Elimination Patterns
Unit 7 Responses to Altered Urinary Elimination
26. Assessing the Renal System
27. Nursing Care of Patients with Urinary Tract Disorders
28. Nursing Care of Patients with Kidney Disorders