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Handbook for Focus on Adult Health: Medical Surgical Nursing
Linda Pellico
This comprehensive yet concise clinical reference presents need-to-know
information on over 170 commonly encountered diseases and disorders. The
easy-to-use, colorful, consistent, and alphabetized format enables readers to
gain quick access to vital information. Special Features include: Nursing Process
sections, Nursing Alerts that offer brief tips or highlight red-flag warnings for
clinical practice, and Gerontologic Considerations, that highlight information
pertaining specifically to the care of older adults, who comprise the fastest-
growing segment of our population.
978-1-5825-5887-5 / 1608 pp / 351 illus / 2012
NURSING
Focus on Adult Health: Medical Surgical Nursing
Linda Pellico
This new text focuses on teaching students adult health content with a true clinical focus.
By giving depth and breadth to essential content,
Focus on Adult Health: Medical-Surgical
Nursing
includes all of the necessary information beginning nurses need to know for safe
and effective practice in a medical-surgical setting. Clear, concise language, specially
designed features, and a comprehensive learning package all work together to improve and
support student comprehension and application.
978-1-5825-5877-6 / 1608 pp / 351 illus / 2012
Focus on Adult Health’s Handbook of Laboratory & Diagnostic
Tests
Lippincott Wiliams & Wilkins
This companion book to Focus on Adult Health: Medical-Surgical Nursing is a
concise, portable, full-color handbook of hundreds of test results and their
implications. The two-part presentation includes a review of specimen collection
procedures followed by an alphabetical list of tests. Tests include important
information about reference values, normal and abnormal values as well as
associated nursing implications, interfering factors, and essential nursing
considerations before, during, and after the test.
978-1-4511-7318-5 / 576 pp / 81 illus / 2012