Get the additional practice you need to master class content and pass the NCLEX® with the Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing, 7th Edition! This easy-to-use guide includes exercises divided by difficulty level, fun activities, and a wealth of multiple-choice and alternate-format questions. Questions in disorders chapters cover the Client Needs categories in the NCLEX-PN® test plan which also helps you to transfer your knowledge of medical-surgical concepts directly to patient care in the clinical setting.
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<li>Questions grouped by level of difficulty</li> encourage you to move from easy, knowledge-based questions to more difficult, analytical questions.<li>
Alternate item formats exam include priority order, multiple response, labeling, and calculation questions to help you practice for the NCLEX-PN®.</li>
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Exercises focus on long-term care patients and settings help you to prepare for real-world practice.</li>
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<li>NEW! Completely revised exercises and review questions </li>match the most up-to-date nursing diagnoses from the text.</ul>

Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing

Medical Books

Linton BSN MN PhD RN FAAN, Adrianne Dill

Matteson PhD RN FAAN, Mary Ann

Maebius PhD RN, Nancy K.

Nursing

Saunders

Gain the knowledge and skills you need to effectively care for adult patients. Medical-Surgical Nursing, 7th Edition covers both medical-surgical and psychiatric mental health conditions and disorders while building on the fundamentals of nursing. This essential text focuses on nursing roles, settings, trends, body systems and their disorders, and emergency and disaster management. Unique to this edition is the gerontologic nursing unit which addresses physiologic and psychosocial changes in the older adult, along with related disorders common to the elder patient - the primary patient group population you’ll encounter in practice. It also emphasizes culturally competent care and holistic nursing, while thoroughly covering all relevant NCLEX-PN® test plan content. With updated guidelines on diabetes, heart failure, asthma, COPD, and cancer treatment protocols, no other resource offers the breadth of topics at a level that is so perfectly tailored to the LPN/LVN student.
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<li>UNIQUE! Gerontologic nursing unit </li>covers physiologic and psychosocial changes in the older adult, along with related disorders common to the elder patient, the primary patient group for whom LPNs provide care.<li>
UNIQUE! In-depth pharmacology coverage includes: the Pharmacology Tutorial covering drug classifications, how drugs work, and nursing responsibilities; Pharmacology Capsules boxes providing medication information, precautions for use, interactions, and side/adverse effects; and Pharmacology and Medications tables including classification, use/action, side/adverse effects, and nursing interventions.</li>
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Nursing care plans reinforce the nursing process and focus on critical thinking.</li>
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Get Ready for the NCLEX-PN® Examination! sections at the end of chapters include key points, review questions, and case studies that address the various NCLEX® Client Needs categories.</li>
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Coordinated Care boxes highlight team approach to patient care, helping you to prioritize tasks and assign them safely to assistive personnel.</li>
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Patient Teaching Plans provide bulleted lists of nursing instructions for patients, stressing the role and responsibility of the LPN/LVN to reinforce patient education.</li>
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Health Promotion Considerations boxes highlight timely wellness and disease prevention topics.</li>
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Cultural Considerations boxes discuss the importance of providing culturally competent care related to various clinical situations.</li>
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Put on Your Thinking Cap boxes allow you to pause and consider the practical implications of what you have just read.</li>
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Nutritional Considerations boxes are spotlighted at appropriate points throughout the text to emphasize the role that nutrition plays in disease and nursing care.</li>
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Complementary and Alternative Therapies focus on nontraditional therapies along with precautions and possible side effects.</li>
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Key terms with phonetic pronunciations help improve terminology and language skills of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students and students with limited proficiency in English before they enter clinical practice. </li> </ul>
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<li>NEW! Organization of disorders units</li> consolidates anatomy and physiology, nursing assessment/data collection, and diagnostic tests into one chapter. <li>
NEW! Updated guidelines on diabetes, heart failure, asthma, COPD, and cancer provides you with latest treatment protocols.</li>
</ul>

Medical-Surgical Nursing

Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card)

Gain the knowledge and skills you need to effectively care for adult patients. Medical-Surgical Nursing, 7th Edition covers both medical-surgical and psychiatric mental health conditions and disorders while building on the fundamentals of nursing. This essential text focuses on nursing roles, settings, trends, body systems and their disorders, and emergency and disaster management. Unique to this edition is the gerontologic nursing unit which addresses physiologic and psychosocial changes in the older adult, along with related disorders common to the elder patient - the primary patient group population you'll encounter in practice. It also emphasizes culturally competent care and holistic nursing, while thoroughly covering all relevant NCLEX-PN® test plan content. With updated guidelines on diabetes, heart failure, asthma, COPD, and cancer treatment protocols, no other resource offers the breadth of topics at a level that is so perfectly tailored to the LPN/LVN student.UNIQUE! Gerontologic nursing unit covers physiologic and psychosocial changes in the older adult, along with related disorders common to the elder patient, the primary patient group for whom LPNs provide care.UNIQUE! In-depth pharmacology coverage includes: the Pharmacology Tutorial covering drug classifications, how drugs work, and nursing responsibilities; Pharmacology Capsules boxes providing medication information, precautions for use, interactions, and side/adverse effects; and Pharmacology and Medications tables including classification, use/action, side/adverse effects, and nursing interventions. Nursing care plans reinforce the nursing process and focus on critical thinking.Get Ready for the NCLEX-PN® Examination! sections at the end of chapters include key points, review questions, and case studies that address the various NCLEX® Client Needs categories.Coordinated Care boxes highlight team approach to patient care, helping you to prioritize tasks and assign them safely to assistive personnel.Patient Teaching Plans provide bulleted lists of nursing instructions for patients, stressing the role and responsibility of the LPN/LVN to reinforce patient education.Health Promotion Considerations boxes highlight timely wellness and disease prevention topics.Cultural Considerations boxes discuss the importance of providing culturally competent care related to various clinical situations.Put on Your Thinking Cap boxes allow you to pause and consider the practical implications of what you have just read.Nutritional Considerations boxes are spotlighted at appropriate points throughout the text to emphasize the role that nutrition plays in disease and nursing care.Complementary and Alternative Therapies focus on nontraditional therapies along with precautions and possible side effects.Key terms with phonetic pronunciations help improve terminology and language skills of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students and students with limited proficiency in English before they enter clinical practice. NEW! Organization of disorders units consolidates anatomy and physiology, nursing assessment/data collection, and diagnostic tests into one chapter. NEW! Updated guidelines on diabetes, heart failure, asthma, COPD, and cancer provides you with latest treatment protocols.

Linton PhD RN FAAN, Adrianne Dill

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Provide quality nursing care for adults with medical, surgical, and psychiatric disorders! Building upon the fundamentals of nursing, Medical-Surgical Nursing, 8th Edition helps you master the role and responsibilities of the LPN/LVN in medical-surgical care. The text addresses the special problems of older adult patients, then covers each major disorder by body system, presenting patient problems, goals, outcome criteria, and nursing interventions. As LPN/LVNs do not formulate NANDA diagnoses, the book is organized by patient problems rather than NANDA nursing diagnoses. Written by noted educators Adrianne Dill Linton and Mary Ann Matteson, this text helps you build the clinical judgment skills you need to succeed on the Next Generation NCLEX-PN® examination and in nursing practice.

Use this study guide to review and apply medical-surgical nursing concepts! With chapters corresponding to the chapters in Linton & Matteson’s Medical-Surgical Nursing, 8th Edition, this workbook provides a variety of questions and exercises to help you master the LPN/LVN’s role in medical-surgical care. Questions include matching, multiple-choice, labeling, case studies, diagram reading, fill-in-the-blank, ordering, and prioritizing challenges. Next-Generation NCLEX®-format questions help you get ready for the Next-Generation NCLEX-PN® examination ― and for success in nursing practice! Questions arranged by level of difficulty move from simple recall to more difficult exercises designed to help you apply, analyze, and synthesize basic concepts. Alternate format questions include multiple response, labeling, prioritizing, ordering, and calculation questions to help you practice for the NCLEX-PN®. Review questions on care for older adults focus on long-term care and community-based settings, asking you to apply content to real-world practice. Additional review questions are provided on the Evolve website for the textbook. NEW! Next-Generation NCLEX®-format questions help you review and practice for the new licensure examination. NEW! Case studies in the clinical chapters allow you to develop skills in clinical judgment. NEW! Updated exercises and review questions match the new content in the textbook, and cover newly approved pharmaceutical treatments and drugs.

Medical-Surgical Nursing Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card): Medical-Surgical Nursing Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card)

Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card)

Provide quality nursing care for adults with medical-surgical and psychiatric disorders! Building upon the fundamentals of nursing, Medical-Surgical Nursing, 8th Edition helps you master the role and responsibilities of the LPN/LVN in medical-surgical care. The text addresses the special problems of older adult patients, then covers each major disorder by body system, presenting patient problems, goals, outcome criteria, and nursing interventions. As LPN/LVNs do not formulate NANDA diagnoses, the book is organized by patient problems rather than NANDA nursing diagnoses. Written by noted educators Adrianne Dill Linton and Mary Ann Matteson, this text helps you build the clinical judgment skills you need to succeed on the Next-Generation NCLEX-PN® examination and in nursing practice. <ul> <li>UNIQUE! Older Adult Patient unit covers the special problems and disorders - such as falls, dementia, and incontinence - that are common to gerontologic patients, as this is the primary patient group for whom LPN/LVNs provide care.</li> <li>UNIQUE! In-depth pharmacology coverage includes Pharmacology Capsule boxes highlighting critical information for common drugs, Pharmacology and Medications tables including classification, use/action, side/adverse effects, and nursing interventions, and a Pharmacology Tutorial on the Evolve website covering drug classifications, how drugs work, and nursing responsibilities.</li> <li>Nursing care plans illustrate the application of content to the nursing process in realistic scenarios, with critical thinking questions to encourage thoughtful analysis of patient needs and nursing care.</li> <li>For each body system, an introductory chapter provides a refresher review of anatomy and physiology; to minimize repetition in subsequent chapters, relevant diagnostic tests and procedures are described; and common classifications of the drugs used to manage system disorders are introduced.</li> <li>Get Ready for the NCLEX® Examination! section at the end of each chapter covers key points and includes review questions and critical thinking questions to help you prepare for class tests and the NCLEX-PN examination.</li> <li>Put on Your Thinking Cap boxes ask you to analyze and apply concepts to clinical situations.</li> <li>Patient Teaching boxes provide nursing instructions, stressing the role and responsibility of the LPN/LVN in patient education.</li> <li>Health Promotion Considerations boxes highlight timely wellness and disease prevention topics.</li> <li>Nutrition Considerations boxes emphasize the role nutrition plays in disease and holistic nursing care.</li> <li>Complementary and Alternative Therapies boxes break down nontraditional therapies along with precautions and possible side effects.</li> <li>Coordinated Care boxes highlight the team approach to patient care, helping nurses prioritize tasks and assign them safely to assistive personnel.</li> <li>Cultural Considerations boxes promote understanding of the needs of culturally diverse patients when planning nursing care.</li> <li>Key terms include phonetic pronunciations and make learning easier with terms listed at the beginning of each chapter, shown in color at first mention in the text, and defined in the glossary.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>NEW! Next-Generation NCLEX® case studies and new-format questions help you prepare for the licensure examination.</li> <li>NEW! Discussion of the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model helps in developing the decision-making skills needed to plan effective nursing interventions.</li> <li>NEW! Content on disorders is thoroughly updated, including infection control and pandemic responses.</li> </ul>

Medical-Surgical Nursing - Binder Ready

This text provides comprehensive, research-based information on nursing care of older adults. Starting with the basics, it uses a systems approach to describe the aging process across the health care continuum from wellness to illness. Physiological and psychosocial aspects of aging are described in detail. Plus, its many new assessment tools and greater use of the nursing process serves as a framework for providing care.The second edition presents research and theory-based coverage of aging, discussions of normal aging and the clinical problems associated with aging, chapters on pharmacology and nutrition, plus guidance on care in a variety of settings, including acute and long-term care, and in the community.
<li>Presents research and theory-based coverage of aging.</li>Addresses both normal aging and clinical problems associated with aging.<li>Includes chapters on pharmacology and nutrition.</li>Provides a unit on psychosocial and socio-cultural influences of aging.<li>Describes care of the elderly in a variety of settings, such as acute care, long-term care, and the community.</li>

Gerontological Nursing: Concepts and Practice

McConnell PhD RN, Eleanor S.

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Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing

Medical-Surgical Nursing

Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card)

Medical-Surgical Nursing

Medical-Surgical Nursing

Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing

Medical-Surgical Nursing Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card): Medical-Surgical Nursing Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card)

Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card)

Medical-Surgical Nursing - Binder Ready

Gerontological Nursing: Concepts and Practice