Medical-Surgical Nursing (2nd Edition)

About this book

Extensively updated to reflect new evidence and improved standards of care MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING 2/e fully exposes learners to concepts that are essential to modern medical-surgical nursing practice. It identifies and defines 58 key concepts associated with caring critical thinking research nursing process and health promotion; and weaves each of these throughout the text establishing a strong foundation for practice. Through experiential learning techniques readers become active participants with many opportunities to demonstrate their understanding in diverse modern nursing settings. This editions content has been reorganized to support more efficient and intuitive learning. Major improvements include: tighter alignment with Institute of Medicine findings including QSEN and Nursing Core Competencies; restructured coverage of Nursing Process/Patient Care Plans to support Gordons functional health patterns; and increased emphasis on prevention community-based care collaboration and the role of nurses as key members of the health care team.