Medical-surgical Nursing

Within a comprehensive and logical format, this book presents an overview of the concepts and provides the framework for medical-surgical nursing, including health and wellness, nursing process, nursing assessment, adult development and the impact of disruption, stress and client teaching.

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Within a comprehensive and logical format, this book presents a thorough overview of the concepts and provides the framework for medical-surgical nursing, including health and wellness, nursing process, nursing assessment, adult development and the impact of disruption, stress and client teaching. A strong emphasis on pathophysiology and a body-systems approach encourage understanding of the disease process and accurate assessment findings. The book provides for each body systems section a separate assessment chapter; provides nursing assessment tables that summarize the appropriate subjective and objective data to be obtained; identifies age-related changes for each body system; presents case studies; and includes review questions and answers. Also available is an Instructor's Manual with Test Bank, transparency acetates and computerized test bank.