Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Management for
Positive Outcomes, 8/e 2 Vol Set
Lewis’s Medical Surgical Nursing 1st Edition (Local
Adaptation)
Brunner and Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing
12/e 2 Vol Set
Author / Editor
Black
Chintamani
Smeltzer
Product Data
2428 Pages, Paperback, Elsevier, 2009
1930 Pages, 1400 illust., Paperback, Elsevier, 2010 TBA ● 2238 Pages ● 750 illust. ● Paperback ● 2014 ● TBA
Contents
• Evidence-Based Practice icons identify statements based on
primary research or standardized guidelines and teach you to base
your practice on solid research evidence.
• Translating Evidence into Practice boxes present a topic in the
form of a clinical question and summarize the conclusions of 4-5
research articles, encouraging you to judge the research for
yourself and consider how it relates to the nursing setting.
• Care Plans highlight nursing diagnoses and collaborative
problems, expected outcomes, interventions with rationales, and
evaluation to help you prioritize tasks and determine the
appropriate treatment.
• Thinking Critically questions at the end of each nursing care
chapter pose short, typical client scenarios followed by questions
about what actions to take to test your critical thinking skills.
• Concept Maps illustrate the links among pathophysiological
processes, clinical manifestations, medical treatment, and nursing
interventions.
• Integrating Pharmacology boxes help you understand how
medications can be used for disease management by exploring
common classifications of routinely used medications.
• Bridge to Critical Care and Bridge to Home Health Care boxes
introduce you to critical care and home health nursing by
connecting these related specialties to medical-surgical nursing.
• Feature boxes highlight issues in Critical Monitoring,
Management and Delegation, Genetics, Terrorism, Community-
Based Practice, and Physical Assessment in the Healthy Adult.
• A smarter new look and feel.
• MSN procedures modified as per the prevalent
disease conditions and abnormalities in the Indian
subcontinent for B.Sc. Nursing students in accordance
with the INC curriculum.
• Rare photographs from live surgeries provide the
students the first visual experience of working along
with the operating surgeons.
• More than 60 accurate, precise, point-wise nursing
care plans, taking care of every significant disease.
• Learn quicker, revise faster
• More than 1000 boxes: Condensed boxes containing
Diagnosis, Nursing Assessment, Emergency
Management, Patient and Family Teaching, Home
Care/Community-Based Care, Gerontologic
Considerations, Nutrition, Ethnic Dilemmas, Culturally
Competent Care, Complementary and Alternative
Therapies, Nursing Management, and Drugs used in
the diseases to quickly revise the content during
exams.
• Published since in 1964 • Gold
Standard Title • 1st Med Surg
Text • NEW! Concept
Mastery Alerts clarify difficult concepts, informed by data from
Misconception Alert questions in PrepU for Brunner & Suddarth's
Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 12e.
• NEW! Quality and Safety Nursing Alerts build upon previous
edition’s Nursing Alerts to highlight issues related to quality and
safety nursing care.
• NEW! The updated unit openers include new Case Studies with
QSEN Competency Focus to highlight a competency and related
knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Additional information for these
case studies related to NANDA-I, NIC, NOC and the nursing process
is available online.
• NEW! Prioritization Questions have been added to the Critical
Thinking Exercises.
• UPDATED! Genetics Charts and Ethical Dilemma Charts have been
revised to reflect the latest advances in the field.
• UPDATED! Critical care information has been updated to further
the authors' goal to have the most up-to-date and clinically relevant
content on critical care throughout the book.
• EXPANDED! Expanded coverage of obesity, highlighted with a
new icon, focuses on this epidemic health problem in our society.
STEAMLINED! The Table of Contents has been reorganized for a
more logical sequence and flow.
REVISED! The accompanying Study Guide now features
reorganized content and revised questions.
Nursing Process sections Plans of Nursing Care and Critical Care
Resources
None
• Instructor Access to thePoint, SimAdviser, Smeltzer 12e
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