Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts and Practice, 3e

Take your studying to another level with this trusted medical-surgical nursing learning tool! The Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts & Practice, 3rd Edition reinforces your mastery of the terms and concepts from deWit s text and provides you with practice for the Boards. It includes updated exercises and creative activities that help you set priorities, apply the nursing process, and think critically and a unique Steps Toward Better Communication section in each chapter that improves your communication and vocabulary skills.

• UNIQUE! Steps Toward Better Communication sections include a vocabulary-building glossary, completion tasks, pronunciation and grammar exercises, and communication exercises.
• UNIQUE! To the Student preface offers study hints for all students and additional tips for students with limited English proficiency.
• Review Questions for the NCLEX-PN Examination, which include alternate-item format questions, test your knowledge of chapter content while providing valuable practice for the Boards.
• Critical Thinking activities based on concepts in the textbook encourage you to apply what you have learned and draw conclusions.
• Setting Priorities questions ask you to rank tasks in order of importance.
• Cultural Points explore how the health care field varies in different countries, and how culture affects healthcare in our own country, to give you a broader perspective of nursing care outside your own comfort zone.
• Clinical Situations applied to sample practice situations stimulate critical thinking and practical application of nursing concepts.
• Meeting Clinical Objectives activities help you meet stated clinical practice objectives of the corresponding chapter.
• Grammar Points exercises give you a refresher on common grammatical errors made in the nursing field.
• Word Attack Skills provide focused concentration on some of the more important or confusing terms in the curriculum.
• Review of structure and function of the human body refreshes you on content learned in previous classes and how it applies to this curriculum.
• Completion exercises with key terms reinforce nursing vocabulary.
• Short answer, identification, multiple choice, and matching questions use multiple formats to test your knowledge of concepts conveyed in the text.
• Application of the Nursing Process questions reinforce the different stages of the nursing process.
• Answer key for all activities and questions is provided to instructors to distribute to students at their discretion.

• NEW! Updatedexercises reflect the most current textbook content.