Medical-Surgical Nursing, 8th Edition Adrianne Dill Linton

Medical-Surgical Nursing, 8th Edition Adrianne Dill Linton

1. ISBN-10

   0323826717
2. ISBN-13

   978-0323826716

3. Present high quality nursing look after adults with medical-surgical and psychiatric issues!Constructing upon the basics of nursing, Medical-Surgical Nursing, 8th Edition helps you grasp the position and obligations of the LPN/LVN in medical-surgical care. The textual content addresses the particular issues of older grownup sufferers, then covers every main dysfunction by physique system, presenting affected person issues, objectives, consequence standards, and nursing interventions. As LPN/LVNs don’t formulate NANDA diagnoses, the guide is organized by affected person issues fairly than NANDA nursing diagnoses. Written by famous educators Adrianne Dill Linton and Mary Ann Matteson, this textual content helps you construct the medical judgment expertise it is advisable succeed on the Subsequent-Era NCLEX-PN^® examination and in nursing observe.

   • UNIQUE! Older Grownup Affected person unit covers the particular issues and issues ― comparable to falls, dementia, and incontinence ― which can be widespread to gerontologic sufferers, as that is the first affected person group for whom LPN/LVNs present care.
   • UNIQUE! In-depth pharmacology protection contains Pharmacology Capsule packing containers highlighting vital info for widespread medicine, Pharmacology and Drugs tables together with classification, use/motion, aspect/adversarial results, and nursing interventions, and a PharmacologyTutorial on the Evolve web site masking drug classifications, how medicine work, and nursing obligations.
   • Nursing care plans illustrate the appliance of content material to the nursing course of in practical eventualities, with vital considering inquiries to encourage considerate evaluation of affected person wants and nursing care.
   • For every physique system, an introductory chapter offers a refresher evaluation of anatomy and physiology; to reduce repetition in subsequent chapters, related diagnostic assessments and procedures are described; and customary classifications of the medicine used to handle system issues are launched.
   • Get Prepared for the NCLEX^® Examination! part on the finish of every chapter covers key factors and contains evaluation questions and important considering questions that will help you put together for sophistication assessments and the NCLEX-PN examination.
   • Placed on Your Considering Cap packing containers ask you to research and apply ideas to medical conditions.
   • Affected person Instructing packing containers present nursing directions, stressing the position and accountability of the LPN/LVN in affected person schooling.
   • Well being Promotion Issues packing containers spotlight well timed wellness and illness prevention matters.
   • Vitamin Issues packing containers emphasize the position diet performs in illness and holistic nursing care.
     • Complementary and Different Therapies packing containers break down nontraditional therapies together with precautions and attainable unintended effects.
     • Coordinated Care packing containers spotlight the group strategy to affected person care, serving to nurses prioritize duties and assign them safely to assistive personnel.
       • Cultural Issues packing containers promote understanding of the wants of culturally various sufferers when planning nursing care.
       • Key phrases embrace phonetic pronunciations and make studying simpler with phrases listed in the beginning of every chapter, proven in shade at first point out within the textual content, and outlined within the glossary.
       • NEW! Subsequent-Era NCLEX^® case research and new-format questions assist you put together for the licensure examination.
       • NEW! Dialogue of the NCSBN Scientific Judgment Measurement Mannequin helps in creating the decision-making expertise wanted to plan efficient nursing interventions.
       • NEW! Content material on issues is completely up to date, together with an infection management and pandemic responses.