Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts & Practice

Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts & Practice

<p>Providing a solid foundation in medical-surgical nursing, Susan deWit’s <b>Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts and Practice, 3rd Edition</b> ensures you have the information you need to pass the NCLEX-PN® Examination and succeed in practice. Part of the popular <i>LPN/LVN Threads</i> series, this uniquely understandable, concise text builds on the fundamentals of nursing, covering roles, settings, and health care trends; all body systems and their disorders; emergency and disaster management; and mental health nursing. With updated content, chapter objectives, and review questions, this new edition relates national LPN/LVN standards to practice with its integration of QSEN competencies, hypertension, diabetes, and hypoglycemia.</p><ul><b><li>Concept Maps</b> in the disorders chapters help you visualize difficult material, and illustrate how a disorder's multiple symptoms, treatments, and side effects relate to each other.</li><li><b><i>Get Ready for the NCLEX® Examination!</b></i> <b>section </b>includes <b>Key Points</b> that summarize chapter objectives, <b>additional resources</b> for further study, <b>review questions for the NCLEX® Examination</b>, and <b>critical thinking questions</b>.<b><i> </i></b></li><li><b>Nursing Care Plans with critical thinking questions</b> provide a clinical scenario and demonstrate application of the nursing process with updated NANDA-I nursing diagnoses to individual patient problems. <b></b></li><li><b>Anatomy and physiology</b> <b>content </b>in each body system overview chapter provides basic information for understanding the body system and its disorders, and appears along with <b><i>Focused Assessment</b> </i><b>boxes</b> highlighting the key tasks of data collection for each body system.</li><li><b><i>Assignment Considerations</b></i>,<b> </b>discussed in Chapter 1 and highlighted in feature boxes, address situations in which the RN delegates tasks to the LPN/LVN, or the LPN/LVN assigns tasks to nurse assistants, per the individual state nurse practice act.</li><li><b>Gerontologic nursing </b>presented throughout in the context of specific disorders with<i> <b>Elder Care Points</b></i> <b>boxes</b> that address the unique medical-surgical care issues that affect older adults.</li><li><b><i>Safety Alert</i> boxes</b> call out specific dangers to patients and teach you to identify and implement safe clinical care. </li><li><b><i>Evidence-based Practice</i> icons</b> highlight current references to research in nursing and medical practice. <b><i></i></b></li><li><b><i>Patient Teaching</b></i> <b>boxes</b> provide step-by-step instructions and guidelines for post-hospital care ― and prepare you to educate patients on their health condition and recovery. </li><li><b><i>Health Promotion</b></i> <b>boxes </b>address wellness and disease prevention strategies that you can provide in patient teaching.</li></ul><ul><b><li>NEW! Content</b> <b>updated with the most current health care standards,</b> including QSEN competencies, hypertension, diabetes, and hypoglycemia, to relate national standards to LPN/LVN practice.</li><li><b>UPDATED! Revised chapter objectives and content</b> reflects higher-level critical thinking, communication, patient safety, and priority setting.</li><li><b>UPDATED! <i>Get Ready for the NCLEX<SUP>®</SUP>!</i> review questions</b> updated per the 2014 NCLEX-PN® test plan.</li></ul>