Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-surgical Nursing

A medical-surgical nursing text that offers a resource for meeting nursing challenges. It provides various chapters such as: Individual and Family Considerations Related to Illness, Hypertension, and Neurological Trauma. It features risk factors, patient and community-based nursing care, collaborative problems, and nursing research boxes.

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Meticulously revised and completely updated, this best-selling medical-surgical nursing text is the ultimate resource for meeting today's nursing challenges. Numerous illustrations and charts provide the reader with easily accessible information. The ninth edition features new chapters such as: Individual and Family Considerations Related to Illness, Hypertension, and Neurological Trauma. Every chapter provides the reader with a glossary of key terms for quick access to definitions, while gerontologic considerations are highlighted throughout.A free CD-ROM is included, and a companion Web page on Lippincott's BookLink keeps content up to date, and provides additional teaching and learning aids for the instructor and student. Risk factors, patient and community-based nursing care, collaborative problems, and nursing research boxes are a few of the numerous features that help make this text a comprehensive and highly organized resource for today's medical-surgical nurse. A Study Guide and Handbook are also sold separately to enhance teaching and learning techniques.