Introductory Medical-Surgical Nursing

Introductory Medical-Surgical Nursing

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<div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">This 11th Edition of Timby and Smith’s best-selling text equips LPN/LVN students with the practical knowledge and skills necessary to provide safe and effective nursing care to today's medical-surgical clients.  </p><p class="ProductDescription">Acclaimed for its highly visual and easy-to-understand presentation, this edition prepares you to manage client nursing care in today's changing healthcare environments and eases the transition from classroom to clinical practice. </p><ul> <li>Increase your understanding of the nursing process and its relationship to the client’s needs through new <b>Nursing Concept Map</b> visuals.<b> </b></li> <li> See<b> </b>how the NCLEX-PN exam relates to chapter content through new<b> </b>Integrated <b>NCLEX-PN questions</b> that appear in each chapter.</li> <li>See how research relates to practice through <b>Evidence-Based Practice boxes</b> that include a <i>Clinical Question, Evidence</i>, and <i>Nursing Implication</i>s. </li> <li>Fine tune your understanding of diseases, procedures, signs, symptoms, and normal vs. abnormal comparisons through dynamic visuals that replace text explanations when a picture better tells the story.</li> <li>Enhance your understanding of how pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, and nursing care differ for the older population through updated <b>Gerontologic Considerations</b> displays.</li> <li>Master the special considerations you need to remember when caring for clients who are receiving specific drugs through <b>Pharmacologic Considerations</b> displays<b>.</b></li> <li>Handle the special nutritional needs of clients with certain types of conditions with <b>Nutrition Notes</b> displays.</li> <li>Increase your understanding of important physiological or pathophysiological concepts by viewing  <b>Concepts in Action Animations </b>on thePoint website.</li> <li>Increase your recall and practical assimilation of concepts with each chapter’s <b>Stop, Think, and Respond exercises. </b></li> <li>Develop a solid understanding of nursing care with <b>more than 30 Nursing Care Plans</b> (with rationales) that address such issues as Alzheimer's disease, cancer, myocardial infarction, stroke, diabetes mellitus, modified radical mastectomy, and chronic renal failure.</li> <li>Prepare for your future career with <b>Nursing Process</b> sections in each clinical chapter that emphasize a nursing process approach to care and provide rationales in italics for all interventions.</li> <li>Learn the major categories of drugs used for common conditions with the book’s <b>Drug Therapy Tables</b> that list examples of generic and trade names, mechanisms of action, common side effects, and nursing considerations.</li> <li>Learn to perform specific nursing skills and manage client care using the  <B>Nursing Guidelines</B>.</li></ul><p></p></div>