{"product_id":"medicalsurgical-nursing-concepts-practice-9780323243780","title":"Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts \u0026 Practice","description":"\u003cp\u003eProviding a solid foundation in medical-surgical nursing  Susan deWits Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts and Practice  3rd Edition ensures you have the information you need to pass the NCLEX-PN Examination and succeed in practice. Part of the popular LPN\/LVN Threads series  this uniquely understandable  concise text builds on the fundamentals of nursing  covering roles  settings  and health care trends; all body systems and their disorders; emergency and disaster management; and mental health nursing. With updated content  chapter objectives  and review questions  this new edition relates national LPN\/LVN standards to practice with its integration of QSEN competencies  hypertension  diabetes  and hypoglycemia. Concept Maps in the disorders chapters help you visualize difficult material  and illustrate how a disorders multiple symptoms  treatments  and side effects relate to each other. Get Ready for the NCLEX Examination! section includes Key Points that summarize chapter objectives  additional resources for further study  review questions for the NCLEX Examination  and critical thinking questions. Nursing Care Plans with critical thinking questions provide a clinical scenario and demonstrate application of the nursing process with updated NANDA-I nursing diagnoses to individual patient problems. Anatomy and physiology content in each body system overview chapter provides basic information for understanding the body system and its disorders  and appears along with Focused Assessment boxes highlighting the key tasks of data collection for each body system. Assignment Considerations discussed in Chapter 1 and highlighted in feature boxes  address situations in which the RN delegates tasks to the LPN\/LVN  or the LPN\/LVN assigns tasks to nurse assistants  per the individual state nurse practice act. Gerontologic nursing presented throughout in the context of specific disorders withElder Care Points boxes that address the unique medical-surgical care issues that affect older adults. Safety Alert boxes call out specific dangers to patients and teach you to identify and implement safe clinical care. Evidence-based Practice icons highlight current references to research in nursing and medical practice. Patient Teaching boxes provide step-by-step instructions and guidelines for post-hospital care  and prepare you to educate patients on their health condition and recovery. Health Promotion boxes address wellness and disease prevention strategies that you can provide in patient teaching. NEW! Content updated with the most current health care standards  including QSEN competencies  hypertension  diabetes  and hypoglycemia  to relate national standards to LPN\/LVN practice. UPDATED! Revised chapter objectives and content reflects higher-level critical thinking  communication  patient safety  and priority setting. UPDATED! Get Ready for the NCLEX! review questions updated per the 2014 NCLEX-PN test plan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280087834677,"sku":"ByrdShop_0323243789","price":48.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780323243780.jpg?v=1780620138","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/medicalsurgical-nursing-concepts-practice-9780323243780","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}