Retaining the in-depth coverage of earlier editions, this new sixth edition addresses the emerging trends of today's health care system. It offers updated and expanded content, new case studies on acute renal failure, spinal cord injury, breast cancer, bone marrow transplant, and HIV, a number of useful boxes that call out essential information, including new Alternative and Completmentary Therapies boxes and Case Management in Health Care boxes, and new Bridges to Evidence-Based Practice that discuss review articles on related issues. Chapters with nursing diagnoses now open with appropriate suggested outcomes (NOC), and a new website provides continuous updates, related topics, spanish translations of patient education guides, and much more! (Includes a FREE SIMON website at:www.harcourthealth.com/SIMON/Black/medsurg/)
Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing
NEW! Simplified and streamlined chapters make the book easier to use and information easier to find.
"Evolve. Student resources on Evolve, access code inside"--Cover.
The book is most likely to be used, however, by nurses preparing for the medical-surgical nursing specialty certification examination. The book contains 350 review questions with answers and rationales.
Core Curriculum for Medical-surgical Nursing
Drug or Alcohol Use Ingesting even moderate amounts of alcohol prior to surgery can weaken a patient's immune system and increase the likelihood of developing postoperative complications (Rubinsky, Bishop, Maynard, et al., 2013).
Awarded second place in the 2018 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Medical-Surgical Nursing!
The perfect companion to Introductory Medical-Surgical Nursing, 10th Edition, this handy workbook helps students review and apply essential content from the textbook.
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"The Nursing Knowledge Center's 'Medical-Surgical Nursing Review and Review and Resource Manual' is a must-have tool for nurses planning to take the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC's) Medical-Surgical Nursing certification exam ...