Phipps' Medical-Surgical Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card): Health and Illness Perspectives, 8e
Price not available for India
You can still browse on Amazon. Try another country above.
Book Details
Ratings & Reviews
No reviews yet — be the first!
No reviews yet.
Description
- Solid presentation of pathophysiology and medical, surgical, and nursing management.
- More than 70 Patient/Family Teaching boxes underscore the text's comprehensive treatment approach.
- Content on collaborative management highlights the necessity of cooperation and teamwork in patient care.
- Health promotion and prevention concepts are integrated throughout to stress the importance of ongoing care.
- More than 150 Guidelines for Safe Practice boxes give step-by-step instructions for providing safe, effective care.
- Common Medications tables outline nursing considerations and information on key drug groups.
- Clinical Manifestations boxes summarize important indications related to specific conditions.
- Gerontologic Assessment boxes and Gerontologic Considerations sections remind students of unique considerations in the care of older adults.
- Risk Factors boxes alert the reader to characteristics of disease etiology to consider when assessing and caring for patients.
- Research boxes show how significant research studies apply to daily nursing practice.
- Healthy People 2010 boxes identify national health objectives relevant to the topic of discussion.
- Future Watch boxes alert readers to topics on the horizon, such as developments in genetics and in gender-based medicine.
- Complementary & Alternative Therapies boxes discuss the increasing popularity and significance of complementary and alternative therapies in relation to traditional treatments.
- Nursing Care Plans cover more than 30 patient situations, illustrating the use of NANDA diagnoses, outcome criteria, NIC priority interventions, NOC suggested outcomes, and specific nursing interventions with rationales.
- Evidence-Based Practice boxes identify the Topic Question, Evidence Base, Findings, and Conclusions of research studies pertinent to current medical and nursing practice.
- The concept of community-based care is introduced in a new chapter and incorporated into other chapters as appropriate.
- Nursing Management sections have been reorganized to clarify the correlation among nursing diagnoses, appropriate patient outcomes, and associated interventions.
- Preparing for Practice boxes in selected chapters are linked to a new interactive clinical exercise on the Companion CD, giving students the opportunity to apply critical thinking skills and clinical judgment in caring for patients within a simulated hospital setting.
- The text includes new and expanded chapters related to genetics and disease, emerging infectious diseases and bioterrorism, palliative care, and rehabilitation.
- Are You Ready? boxes test students' mastery of content just covered, reinforcing key concepts and building confidence for taking the NCLEX examination.
- Ethical Alert boxes discuss timely ethical issues nurses face in clinical practice, such as genetic testing and therapy and forced immunization.
- Legal Alert boxes present critical legal considerations, including protocol for medical and nursing interventions, patient consent for treatment or testing, and the duty to warn.
- Key terms with page-number references are listed at the beginning of each chapter and set in boldface type within the text.
