Part of the popular LPN Threads series, this market-leading text features an easy-to-follow writing style and organization to teach you the concepts and skills you need to know to practice nursing in a variety of care settings. This new edition offers in-depth discussion of QSEN competencies, rationales for the NCLEX-PN review questions, and new icons to point out the most current evidence-based information.Standard LPN Threads features include helpful characteristics such as full-color design, key terms, numbered objectives, key points, critical thinking questions, critical thinking activities, glossary, and references.Easy-to-follow reading level and text organization presents information from simple to most complex.Think Critically boxes help you synthesize information and apply concepts beyond the scope of the chapter. Cultural Considerations related to biocultural variations as well as health promotion for specific ethnic groups demonstrate how to provide culturally competent care.Elder Care Points highlight changes that occur with aging and how they affect nursing care.Home Care boxes highlight the necessary adaptations of nursing skills and techniques for the patient in the home care setting.  NEW! Rationales for NCLEX review questions at the end of each chapter help you understand why your choices were correct or incorrect.NEW! Full text reviews by experts in the field offer consistency and ease understanding as you progress through the book.NEW! Evolve margin icons denote supplemental material for students on Evolve.NEW! Evidence Based Practice margin icons point out the most current and evidence based information.NEW! In depth discussion of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) within the text provides the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems.

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deWit MSN RN CNS PHN, Susan C.

Williams MSN RN CCRN, Patricia A.

Nursing

Saunders

Much more than just a study calendar, Saunders Student Nurse Planner, 2013-2014 will quickly become your lifeline with its wealth of organizational tools, clinical information, and helpful nursing school guidance all within one compact and versatile resource. Designed specifically for busy nursing students like you, this planner’s strategies for time management and stress-reduction, NCLEX Exam review questions and study tips, and abundance of helpful clinical tools can significantly relieve the common aches and pains of nursing school and help you perform to your fullest potential both inside the classroom and throughout clinical practice.  Time-saving, compact design provides a clean and efficient layout that is easy to take to bring along to class and clinical rotations.Time management strategies help you perform to your fullest potential. Advice on study skills and stress reduction techniques improve your focus and increase efficiency ― giving you the edge you need to succeed. Alternate-format questions (explanation and examples) and information on taking the NCLEX exam help prepare you for the licensure exam. Getting the Most from the Clinical Experience chapter educates you on patient safety, communication with patients and colleagues, and documentation. The Joint Commission’s "Do Not Use" List of dangerous abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols appears inside the front cover.Clinical Quick Reference chapter provides you with essential clinical tools and information in a concise, accessible format, and includes:  Commonly used abbreviations, symbols, and notationsPerioperative care and Joint Commission safety guidelines for surgery Fall risk factors and assessmentMost commonly used IV fluids table HIPAA requirements for confidentiality Safety guidelines to prevent medication errorsPain assessment tools Signs of geriatric and pediatric abuseGlasgow Coma Scale Tips for troubleshooting IV pumps Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk Common lab test valuesMyPlate dietary guidelines     NEW! Updated information on common therapeutic diets includes gluten- and lactose-free, high-fiber, and the DASH Eating Plan.NEW! FOUR Score Neurological Assessment Scale guides you in assessing a patient’s level of consciousness.

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Providing a solid foundation in medical-surgical nursing, Susan deWit’s Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts and Practice, 3rd Edition ensures you have the information you need to pass the NCLEX-PN® Examination and succeed in practice. Part of the popular LPN/LVN Threads 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.
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<li>Concept Maps</li> 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>
Get Ready for the NCLEX® Examination! section includes Key Points that summarize chapter objectives, additional resources for further study, review questions for the NCLEX® Examination, and critical thinking questions.</li>
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Nursing Care Plans with critical thinking questions provide a clinical scenario and demonstrate application of the nursing process with updated NANDA-I nursing diagnoses to individual patient problems. </li>
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Anatomy and physiology content in each body system overview chapter provides basic information for understanding the body system and its disorders, and appears along with Focused Assessment boxes highlighting the key tasks of data collection for each body system.</li>
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Assignment Considerations,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>
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Gerontologic nursing presented throughout in the context of specific disorders with Elder Care Points boxes that address the unique medical-surgical care issues that affect older adults.</li>
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Safety Alert boxes call out specific dangers to patients and teach you to identify and implement safe clinical care. </li>
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Evidence-based Practice icons highlight current references to research in nursing and medical practice. </li>
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Patient Teaching boxes provide step-by-step instructions and guidelines for post-hospital care ― and prepare you to educate patients on their health condition and recovery. </li>
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Health Promotion boxes address wellness and disease prevention strategies that you can provide in patient teaching.</li>
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<li>NEW! Content</li> updated with the most current health care standards, including QSEN competencies, hypertension, diabetes, and hypoglycemia, to relate national standards to LPN/LVN practice.<li>
UPDATED! Revised chapter objectives and content reflects higher-level critical thinking, communication, patient safety, and priority setting.</li>
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UPDATED! Get Ready for the NCLEX®! review questions updated per the 2014 NCLEX-PN® test plan.</li>
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Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts & Practice

Stromberg RN BSN MSN PHN Alumnus CCRN, Holly K.

Dallred, Carol

Providing a solid foundation in medical-surgical nursing, Susan deWit’s Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts and Practice, 3rd Edition ensures you have the information you need to pass the NCLEX-PN® Examination and succeed in practice. Part of the popular LPN/LVN Threads 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.Concept Maps 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.Get Ready for the NCLEX® Examination! section includes Key Points that summarize chapter objectives, additional resources for further study, review questions for the NCLEX® Examination, and critical thinking questions. Nursing Care Plans with critical thinking questions provide a clinical scenario and demonstrate application of the nursing process with updated NANDA-I nursing diagnoses to individual patient problems. Anatomy and physiology content in each body system overview chapter provides basic information for understanding the body system and its disorders, and appears along with Focused Assessment boxes highlighting the key tasks of data collection for each body system.Assignment Considerations, 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.Gerontologic nursing presented throughout in the context of specific disorders with Elder Care Points boxes that address the unique medical-surgical care issues that affect older adults.Safety Alert boxes call out specific dangers to patients and teach you to identify and implement safe clinical care. Evidence-based Practice icons highlight current references to research in nursing and medical practice. Patient Teaching boxes provide step-by-step instructions and guidelines for post-hospital care ― and prepare you to educate patients on their health condition and recovery. Health Promotion boxes address wellness and disease prevention strategies that you can provide in patient teaching.NEW! Content updated with the most current health care standards, including QSEN competencies, hypertension, diabetes, and hypoglycemia, to relate national standards to LPN/LVN practice.UPDATED! Revised chapter objectives and content reflects higher-level critical thinking, communication, patient safety, and priority setting.UPDATED! Get Ready for the NCLEX®! review questions updated per the 2014 NCLEX-PN® test plan.

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Take your studying to another level with this trusted medical-surgical nursing learning tool! The Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts &amp; Practice, 3rd Edition reinforces your mastery of the terms and concepts from deWit’s text and provides you with practice for the Boards. It includes updated exercises and creative activities that help you set priorities, apply the nursing process, and think critically ― and a unique Steps Toward Better Communication section in each chapter that improves your communication and vocabulary skills.
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UNIQUE! To the Student preface offers study hints for all students and additional tips for students with limited English proficiency.</li>
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Review Questions for the NCLEX-PN® Examination, which include alternate-item format questions, test your knowledge of chapter content while providing valuable practice for the Boards.</li>
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Critical Thinking activities based on concepts in the textbook encourage you to apply what you have learned and draw conclusions.</li>
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Setting Priorities questions ask you to rank tasks in order of importance.</li>
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Cultural Points explore how the health care field varies in different countries, and how culture affects healthcare in our own country, to give you a broader perspective of nursing care outside your own comfort zone.</li>
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Meeting Clinical Objectives activities help you meet stated clinical practice objectives of the corresponding chapter.</li>
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Completion exercises with key terms reinforce nursing vocabulary. </li>
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Short answer, identification, multiple choice, and matching questions use multiple formats to test your knowledge of concepts conveyed in the text.</li>
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Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts and Practice

Corresponding chapter-by-chapter to Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 4e, Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing is the fun and engaging way to focus your study time and effectively prepare for class, course exams, and the [NCLEX®/certification/licensure] exam. Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing is comprised of a bank of high-quality practice questions that allows you to advance at your own pace ― based on your performance ― through multiple mastery levels for each chapter.. A comprehensive dashboard allows you to view your progress and stay motivated. Duration for access to this product, which may be at the discretion of your institution, is up to 36 months. Elsevier reserves the right to restrict or remove access due to changes in product portfolio or other market conditions.UNIQUE! Elsevier’s trusted, market-leading content serves as the foundation for all questions, which are written, reviewed, and leveled by experienced [nursing/health professions] educators, item writers, and authors.UNIQUE! Unfolding questions become progressively more complex as you advance to higher levels, incorporating concepts such as delegation, multi-system disease, or complicating conditions to help you strengthen your critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills.UNIQUE! Essential test-taking tips and strategies help you learn how to successfully dissect and tackle different question types and improve test-taking skills for both course exams and the [NCLEX/certification/licensure] examination.Confidence level indicators allow you to indicate your confidence when submitting answers, providing valuable insight into areas where you might require further study.UNIQUE! Practice in Study Mode, which provides immediate feedback, or in Exam Mode where the quiz is timed and results are summarized at the end.UNIQUE! In addition to detailed rationales for each question, select questions include interactive, multimedia resources such as illustrations, animations, videos, audio clips, and study tips to help you master challenging material.The engaging, easy-to-use interface ensures that you’ll be able to navigate through the program with ease.Multiple mastery levels for each chapter, topic, or concept allow you to progress from one level to the next based on your performance. Alternate item format questions ― including multiple-response, fill-in-the-blank, prioritizing, graphic item options, chart/exhibit, video, audio, and hot spot ― provide valuable [NCLEX®/certification/ licensure] exam preparation.The comprehensive dashboard allows you to view your personal learning progress with summaries of your strengths, weaknesses, mastery levels, and normative data.

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Corresponding chapter-by-chapter to Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 4e, Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing is the fun and engaging way to focus your study time and effectively prepare for class, course exams, and the [NCLEX®/certification/licensure] exam. Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing is comprised of a bank of high-quality practice questions that allows you to advance at your own pace ― based on your performance ― through multiple mastery levels for each chapter.. A comprehensive dashboard allows you to view your progress and stay motivated. 
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<li>UNIQUE! Elsevier’s trusted, market-leading content</li> serves as the foundation for all questions, which are written, reviewed, and leveled by experienced [nursing/health professions] educators, item writers, and authors.<li>
UNIQUE! Unfolding questions become progressively more complex as you advance to higher levels, incorporating concepts such as delegation, multi-system disease, or complicating conditions to help you strengthen your critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills.</li>
<li>
UNIQUE! Essential test-taking tips and strategies help you learn how to successfully dissect and tackle different question types and improve test-taking skills for both course exams and the [NCLEX/certification/licensure] examination.</li>
<li>
Confidence level indicators allow you to indicate your confidence when submitting answers, providing valuable insight into areas where you might require further study.</li>
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UNIQUE! Practice in Study Mode, which provides immediate feedback, or in Exam Mode where the quiz is timed and results are summarized at the end.</li>
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UNIQUE! In addition to detailed rationales for each question, select questions include interactive, multimedia resources such as illustrations, animations, videos, audio clips, and study tips to help you master challenging material.</li>
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The engaging, easy-to-use interface ensures that you’ll be able to navigate through the program with ease.</li>
<li>
Multiple mastery levels for each chapter, topic, or concept allow you to progress from one level to the next based on your performance. </li>
<li>
Alternate item format questions ― including multiple-response, fill-in-the-blank, prioritizing, graphic item options, chart/exhibit, video, audio, and hot spot ― provide valuable [NCLEX®/certification/ licensure] exam preparation.</li>
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The comprehensive dashboard allows you to view your personal learning progress with summaries of your strengths, weaknesses, mastery levels, and normative data.</li> </ul>

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