Manual of Medical Surgical Nursing Care

This text is designed to help both staff and nursing students plan and evaluate care of the adult medical-surgical patient. This fourth edition includes new outcome criteria with specific timeframes to reflect current practice standards.

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This manual offers nurses quick, easy access to clinical information formerly found only in medical-surgical textbooks or large manuals. It is the first reference of its size to feature the application of nursing diagnoses and interventions for more than 165 health alterations. It also provides a quick review of pathophysiology, physical assessment, diagnostic testing, collaborative management, patient family teaching, and discharge planning data. Features: * The outcome criteria are specific, positive statements that facilitate evaluation of care. * The order of presentation of the information in each health alteration provides a hierarchy of data that enables the nurse to make nursing diagnoses and plan interventions specific to each patient. * Nursing diagnoses and interventions are presented for preoperative and postoperative patients, patients on prolonged bed rest, patients with cancer and life disrupting illness, and older adults. * Revised content includes the addition of Nursing Intervention Classifications (NIC) presented with Nursing Diagnoses and Interventions. * The interior design is modified and streamlined to make the book more user friendly and accessible.