This portable book condenses the essential, need-to-know information from the Ignatavicius &amp; Workman text into a practical A-Z reference for clinical days. The CLINICAL COMPANION formerly entitled "Pocket Companion" has been thoroughly revised by an author team with a wealth of experience in walking students through clinicals. Its newly streamlined format is easier than ever to read and enables readers to find essential information in seconds. The Clinical Companion now incorporates the very latest, 2001-2002 NANDA nursing diagnoses and includes both the complete 2001-2002 NANDA list and the Communication Quick Reference for Spanish-Speaking Clients. It's an essential companion for clinicals. · Concise coverage of every major disease and disorder from the Ignatavicius &amp; Workman text condensed into a portable reference for clinical days · Jointly authored by textbook author and nationally recognized conference speaker Donna Ignatavicius and by Kathy Hausman, who actively teaches in clinical the area, knows what staff nurses needs to know about patientsand understands first-hand what students are being asked to know for clinicals · Organized into two units -- Special Nursing Concerns (Part I) and Diseases and Disorders (Part II) · Part I covers such special nursing concerns as nursing care of the client experiencing loss, nursing care of the dying client, preoperative nursing care, rehabilitation, and more · Part II presents concise coverage of 283 major conditions (approximately 84 more than the Brunner and Suddarth handbook) in A-Z order to help students and nurses entering practice find essential information in seconds · Minor and less common disorders receive focused coverage of need-to-know information
<li>Includes the complete 2001-2002 NANDA list of approved nursing diagnoses</li>
<li>Now highlights Community-Based Care for major diseases and disorders</li>
<li>Streamlined format and improved readability facilitate quick access to essential information for clinical days</li>

Clinical Companion to Medical-Surgical Nursing

Medical Books

Ignatavicius, Donna

Hausman PhD RNC, Kathy A.

Ignatavicius MS RN ANEF, Donna D.

Nursing

Saunders

Introducing VIRTUAL CLINICAL EXCURSIONS a new breed of workbook that is now a critical component of several of Mosby and W.B. Saunders' most prominent nursing texts. This workbook contains an extraordinary new CD-ROM featuring a virtual hospital setting with five highly individual patients. Users can access and review their charts, lab data, and medication administration records, assess them, monitor daily changes when nurses take their vital signs, perform a variety of tests, formulate diagnoses, and planinterventions. Each workbook lesson has a reading assignment from Ignatavicius &amp; Workman: Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking for Collaborative Care, 4th Edition, as well as activities that involve observing and interacting with the patients in the virtual hospital. The result is a uniquely "hands-on" way to master essential nursing knowledge! Workbook and CD-ROM

Virtual Clinical Excursions for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking for Collaborative Care

Tashiro, Jay

Kennedy, Elaine

Kennedy MS EdD RN, Elaine

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