eticulously revised and completely updated, this bestselling 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: 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 organised resource for today's medical/surgical nurse. A Study Guide and Handbook are also sold separately to enhance teaching and learning techniques
Table of Contents
;Unit 1: Basic Concepts in Nursing Practice;Unit 2: Biophysical and Psychosocial Concepts in Nursing Practice;Unit 3: Concepts and Challenges in Patient Management;Unit 4: Perioperative Concepts and Nursing Management;Unit 5: Gas Exchange and Respiratory Function;Unit 6: Cardiovascular, Circulatory, and Hematologic Function;Unit 7: Digestive and Gastrointestinal Function;Unit 8: Metabolic and Endocrine Function;Unit 9: Urinary and Renal Function;Unit 10: Reproductive Function;Unit 11: Immunologic Function;Unit 12: Integumentary Function;Unit 13: Sensorineural Function;Unit 14: Neurologic Function;Unit 15: Musculoskeletal Function;Unit 16: Other Acute Problems;Appendix;Index;;;;
