Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Management for Positive Outcomes, 9th Edition takes you from basic to advanced medical-surgical nursing with an enhanced multimedia package that makes it easier to learn and apply concepts. This text provides a reliable foundation in anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, medical management, and nursing care for the full spectrum of adult health conditions. The roles of various healthcare professionals in managing each disorder and are clearly outlined, and evidence-based practice and clinical guidelines are integrated throughout the text. UNIQUE! Evidence-Based Practice icons identify statements based on primary research or standardized guidelines and teach you to base your practice on solid research evidence. Translating Evidence into Practice boxes present a topic in the form of a clinical question and summarize the conclusions of 4-5 research articles, encouraging you to judge the research for yourself and consider how it relates to the nursing setting. Care Plans highlight nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems, expected outcomes, interventions with rationales, and evaluation to help you prioritize tasks and determine the appropriate treatment. Thinking Critically questions at the end of each nursing care chapter pose short, typical client scenarios followed by questions about what actions to take to test your critical thinking skills. Concept Maps illustrate the links among pathophysiological processes, clinical manifestations, medical treatment, and nursing interventions. Integrating Pharmacology boxes help you understand how medications can be used for disease management by exploring common classifications of routinely used medications. Bridge to Critical Care and Bridge to Home Health Care boxes introduce you to critical care and home health nursing by connecting these related specialties to medical-surgical nursing. Feature boxes highlight issues in Critical Monitoring, Management and Delegation, Genetics, Terrorism, Community-Based Practice, and Physical Assessment in the Healthy Adult. The book has been updated to latest NANDA, NIC, NOC plus local Indonesian standards SDKI, SIKI, SLKI
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Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing
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.
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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!
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Lippincott Manual of Medical-Surgical Nursing Adaptation of Nettina: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice, 10/Suresh K. Sharma This book is south Asian adaptation of Nettina: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice, 10/e.