This extensive study guide presents over 400 pages of review and testing material which has been thoroughly revised to reflect Mosby's MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING textbook. This clinically relevant guide reinforces students' learning and enables further review outside of the classroom. Focusing on key components of care for all common medical-surgical conditions and procedures, the STUDY GUIDE reinforces the essential, need-to-know information to better prepare students for practice in the medical-surgical nursing setting. * Presents approximately 300 worksheets for student learning and review. * Fosters the development of critical thinking skills in the clinical setting with critical thinking activities and case studies. * Features an extensive variety of exercises which makes review and study of this challenging content more interesting for students. Includes fill-in-the-blank worksheets, quiz-art review sheets, true-false questions, critical thinking activities, crossword puzzles, case studies, word scrambles, matching, and multiple-choice questions. * Includes comprehensive cross-references to Lewis, MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING, 5/e, which provide students with thorough background information. * Contains answers to all exercises in the back of the study guide to facilitate self study. * Perforated and hole-punched 8-1/2" x 11" format facilitates removal and storage in a 3-ring binder.

Study Guide to Accompany Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems

Medical Books

Dirksen RN PhD, Shannon Ruff

Bucher RN PhD CEN CNE, Linda

Lewis RN PhD FAAN, Sharon L.

Nursing

Mosby

This clinical manual presents 300 common medical-surgical conditions and procedures in a concise, alphabetical format for quick clinical reference. Designed for portability, CLINICAL COMPANION TO MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING includes the essential, need-to-know information for medical-surgical nursing practice. Part 1, Disorders, uses a consistent format of: definition/description; pathophysiology; clinical manifestations; diagnostic studies; therapeutic management; nursing management with therapeutic outcomes, interventions, and nursing diagnoses; and patient teaching. Part 2 covers common medical-surgical procedures, and Part 3 contains reference material commonly used in the medical-surgical setting. * Presents approximately 300 medical-surgical disorders in a consistent, clinically-functional format for practical use in the clinical environment. * Includes the most up-to-date information, including isolation precaution guidelines, lab values, and ECGs. * Features a portable format for utility in the medical-surgical environment. * Contains cross references to Lewis MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING, 5/e, to provide students with more thorough background information. * Focuses on treatments in which the nurse plays a major role. * Contains a list of commonly-used abbreviations. * Features an attractive two-color design which makes the content more accessible.

Clinical Companion to Medical-Surgical Nursing

Heitkemper RN PhD FAAN, Margaret M.

Mosby's Electronic Image Collection CD-ROM to accompany Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment & Management of Clinical Problems

Medical-Surgical Nursing Single Volume & Winningham: Critical Thinking in the Medical-Surgical Setting 2/e Package

Medical-Surgical Nursing 2 Volume Set & Winningham Critical Thinking in the Medical-Surgical Setting 2e Package

This book contains solid, research-based content presented in a concise, readable, and consistent format. Special features highlight the content that is most relevant and challenging for today's nursing students, including patient teaching, community and home care, gerontology, cultural and ethnic considerations, collaborative care, nutrition, and critical thinking. Nursing management content is discussed in a unique levels-of-care approach, with separate headings for Health Promotion, Acute Intervention, and Ambulatory and Home Care. More than just a textbook, it is a comprehensive resource with the essential information that students need to prepare for lectures, classroom activities, examinations, clinical assignments, and comprehensive care of patients.
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<li>All content is written and reviewed by leading experts in the field to ensure that information is comprehensive, current, and clinically accurate.</li>
<li>Extensive gerontologic content identifies age-related changes for each body system and alerts the nurse to differences often encountered in older patients.</li>
<li>Attractive four-color design and over 1,300 full-color illustrations enhance learning by presenting disease processes and related anatomy and physiology more clearly.</li>
<li>More than 70 comprehensive nursing care plans are thoroughly updated to incorporate current NANDA diagnoses, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, specific nursing interventions with rationales, evaluation criteria, and collaborative problems.</li>
<li>Ethical Dilemmas boxes promote critical thinking for timely and sensitive issues that nursing students will face in practice―topics such as informed consent, patient adherence, guardianship, confidentiality, and sterilization.</li>
<li>More than 70 Patient and Family Teaching Guides provide students with critical information to include in teaching patients about care of conditions and stress points for educating family members when they will be helping to care for the patient.</li>
<li>Critical Thinking Exercises at the end of each nursing management chapter include Case Studies with Critical Thinking Questions to help students apply information presented and promote critical thinking. Also included are Nursing Research Issues questions to highlight current topics for research and encourage further study.</li>
<li>Collaborative Management headings and Collaborative Care tables emphasize the importance of total patient care in today's health care settings and provide a clear understanding of each provider's role in managing disorders.</li>
<li>Multiple-choice Review Questions at the end of each chapter test students' mastery of the content and correspond with learning objectives in the chapter openers.</li>
<li>Nutritional Therapy tables summarize nutritional interventions and promote healthy lifestyles in patients with various conditions.</li>
<li>Gerontologic Differences in Assessment and Effects of Aging tables present information about older adults' special needs for nursing care.</li>
<li>Nursing Research boxes apply research to clinical practice and cover such timely topics such as pain medication adherence, ethnic influences on cancer screening, family-centered focus in lung transplant care, health promotion for women with multiple sclerosis, and caring for battered women in the emergency department.</li>
<li>Emergency Management tables outline the treatment of health problems most likely to create medical emergencies.</li>
<li>Common Assessment Abnormalities tables alert the nurse to typically encountered abnormalities.</li>
<li>Nursing Assessment tables summarize the subjective and objective data for which the nursing student assesses.</li>
<li>Health History tables present key assessment questions to summarize important assessment parameters.</li>
<li>Diagnostic Studies tables highlight important information relevant to diagnostic studies.</li>
<li>Drug Therapy tables pull out medication information in a format that provides easy student reference</li>
<li>Learning Objectives at the beginning of each chapter help students identify key content</li>
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<li>New chapter on Culturally Competent Care discusses cultural variations affecting health care and key nursing implications to help prepare nurses to interact with the increasingly diverse patient populations entrusted to nursing care.</li>
<li>New chapter on End-of-Life Care discusses the physical and psychosocial manifestations at the end of life, related legal and ethical issues, palliative care, and the special needs of caregivers.</li>
<li>New chapter on Nursing Management: Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia covers Alzheimer's disease and other causes of dementia.</li>
<li>Evidence-Based Practice boxes discuss non-nursing or interdisciplinary research topics.</li>
<li>Genetics in Clinical Practice boxes cover timely topics such as genetic testing, Alzheimer's disease, sickle cell anemia, and genetics-related ethics issues.</li>
<li>Complementary and Alternative Therapies boxes summarize what nurses need to know about topics such as various herbal remedies, acupuncture, and biofeedback.</li>
<li>The accompanying CD-ROM has been expanded and includes: case studies, disorder overviews, interactive learning activities, NCLEX-style review questions, and a comprehensive glossary.</li>
<li>Selected nursing care plans incorporating NIC (Nursing Interventions Classification) and NOC (Nursing Outcomes Classification) show how NIC and NOC are used in clinical practice.</li>
<li>Included on the Evolve website are the concept map creator program and sample concept maps to familiarize students these clinical tools which are used by increasing numbers of nursing instructors.</li>
<li>Chapter 9: Pain has been completely updated and rewritten.</li>
<li>New chapter on Nursing Management: Musculoskeletal Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery covers sprains, strains, fractures, joint surgery, and other related conditions.</li>
<li>The Genetics and Altered Immune Responses chapter includes expanded content on genetics and immunosuppressant therapy for transplant patients.</li>
<li>Key Terms are listed in chapter openers (with page numbers) and bolded where defined in the text narrative.</li>
<li>The Addictive Behaviors chapter features a more holistic approach and contains expanded content on tobacco abuse and smoking cessation.</li>
<li>New color photos throughout feature ethnic and cultural diversity.</li>
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Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems (2 volume set)

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 their nurses take their vital signs and perform a variety of tests, formulate nursing diagnoses, and plan interventions. Each workbook lesson has a reading assignment from Lewis, Heitkemper &amp; Dirksen: Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, 5th 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

Giddens PhD RN FAAN, Jean Foret

Medical-Surgical Nursing Two Volume Text and Virtual Clinical Excursions 1.0 Package

Medical-Surgical Nursing presents thorough coverage of the concepts that provide the framework for medical-surgical nursing, including pathophysiology, nursing assessment and care, adult development, and critical thinking. The easy-to-follow, full-colour design and logical format promote learning of essential nursing management in the medical-surgical setting. Text is available as a single volume or in a two-volume set.

Medical-Surgical Nursing Single Volume Text and Virtual Clinical Excursions 1.0 Package

Thoroughly revised to reflect the revision of the text, this study guide includes a wide variety of exercises and activities, including fill-in-the-blank worksheets, anatomy and physiology review, true-false questions, critical thinking activities, crossword puzzles, case studies, matching, word scrambles, and multiple-choice questions. Answers for all exercises are included in the back to facilitate self-study with rationales provided for the multiple-choice questions.

Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems

O'Brien APRN BC BSN MA MSN, Patricia Graber

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