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Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice 11th Edition By Sandra M. Nettina, MSN, APRN, BC, ANP , Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Instructor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD About the Author: Sandra M. Nettina, MSN, ANP-BC, is a Nurse Practitioner and founder and president of Prime Care House Calls, West Friendship, Maryland. DESCRIPTION A classic nursing reference, the fully updated Lippincott Manual for Nursing Practice , 11th Edition, offers expert nursing knowledge and much-needed practical guidance on patient care. Authoritative yet easy to follow, this comprehensive text guides you through the nursing concepts and skills particularly vital for medical-surgical assessment, care, and treat- ment. Essential for both in-the-classroom and on-the-unit guidance, this is the expertise that all students, new nurses, and medical-surgical nurses need to grasp essential nursing concepts, care management, and procedures.

North American Edition / Hardbound / ISBN: 978-1-4963-7994-8 / ($99.99 / £N/A / €N/A) World International Edition / Hardbound / ISBN: 978-1-9751-0642-3 / ($99.99 / £57.00 / €65.00) World exc US, Canada, Australia, NZ, PR, US VI Approx. 1,594 pp. / 380 in Full Color / Approx. 2 Tables / 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 / September 2018 ▶ ▶ Patient care by body system —functions, problems, disorders, and therapies described for the respiratory, cardiovascular, neurologic and sensory, gastrointestinal, renal, genitourinary, reproductive, metabolic, endocrine, hematologic, immunologic, musculoskeletal, and integumentary systems ▶ ▶ Maternity and neonatal nursing —maternal and fetal health, nursing management during labor and delivery, care of mother and neonate in postpartum period, and complications of childbearing ▶ ▶ Pediatric nursing —pediatric growth and development, physical assessment, primary care, treatment of pediatric disorders of all body systems, and developmental disabilities ▶ ▶ eBook that includes step-by-step procedure guidelines —guidance on more than 150 procedures, with rationales and direction on what to do next and why Your book purchase includes a complimentary download of the enhanced eBook for iOS™, Android™, PC, and Mac. Take advantage of these practical features that will improve your eBook experience: ▶ ▶ The ability to download the eBook on multiple devices at one time—providing a seamless reading experience online or offline ▶ ▶ Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech ▶ ▶ Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that allow you to search within this book, or across your entire library of VitalSource eBooks FEATURES Discover the insights and data that every nurse needs: ▶ ▶ NEW and updated features —Nursing, Gerontologic, Drug, and Transitional Care Alerts, evidence-based references, diagnostic methods, and drug treatment throughout the book ▶ ▶ Easy-to-read, well-illustrated outline format —practical, pertinent, and comprehensive content for the busy nurse, including: ▶ ▶ Patient education —essential self-care, prevention, and health promotion information ▶ ▶ Nursing assessments —important signs and symptoms and other clinical data to be on the alert for in all types of conditions ▶ ▶ Body system terminology —how anatomy and physiology are affected by disease in each body system ▶ ▶ Equipment use —utilizing technology for patient monitoring and therapy ▶ ▶ Nursing process and practice —systematic use of the nursing process for assessment, planning, and intervention ▶ ▶ Emergency nursing —emergent conditions ▶ ▶ Psychiatric Nursing —mental health problems ▶ ▶ Medical-surgical nursing —adult physical assessment, IV therapy, perioperative nursing, cancer nursing, and care of the older or disabled adult

Note to Booksellers: The previous edition published in June 2013 (ISBN: 978-1-4511-7648-3).

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