Description: Contemporary is not only the first word in the title, but a key descriptor in this book's approach. The first new med-surg book to enter the market in years, Contemporary Medical-Surgical Nursing is a new and exciting text that presents comprehensive nursing care of the medical-surgical client as opposed to simply treating conditions and illnesses.
Written with a focus on acute and collaborative care, this text is designed to be relevant and pragmatic in its approach by providing learner-oriented, logically organized information. It addresses key topic areas of clinical care, highlighting contemporary nursing approaches such as health care trends, health costs and benefits, law and ethics and cultural considerations. Contemporary Medical-Surgical Nursing helps bridge the gap from nursing student to professional by providing learners with the knowledge and skills that support today's nursing practice.
Available as one comprehensive book or in two volumes and includes free interactive CD-ROM and online Web resource for instructors and students! Product Benefits: - Strong emphasis on collaborative care and teamwork in health care environments
- Fast Forward focuses on predictions and trends of new things to come in health care
- Dollars and Sense explores the costs and benefits of interventions and provides important statistics with potential solutions and recommendations
- Respecting Our Differences discusses patient differences such as culture, ethnicity, homelessness, age, race, gender, or any determinant of health
- Free in-book CD-ROM features StudyWare, which includes games and activities to reinforce concepts in the book, Heart and Lung Sounds, Fluid and Electrolytes, and NCLEX Questions on Adult Health and Delegation
- Free Online Companion includes additional NCLEX-style questions and case studies
- WebTutor Advantage for Blackboard and WebCT also available
Table of Contents: UNIT 1: NURSING AND THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
1. The Health Care System and Contemporary Nursing
2. Clinical Decision-Making and Evidence Based Practice
3. Health Education & Promotion
4. Culturally Sensitive Care
5.Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Care
6. Nursing of Adults across the Lifespan
7. Palliative Care
UNIT 2: SUPPORTIVE PATIENT CARE
8. Health assessment
9. Genetics and the multiple determinants of health
10. Stress, coping, and adaptation
11. Inflammation and infection Mgmt
12. Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base imbalances
13. Infusion therapy
14. Complementary and alternative therapies
15. Cancer Mgmt
16. Pain Mgmt
17. Pharmacology: Nursing Mgmt
Unit 3: SETTINGS FOR NURSING CARE
18. Health care agencies
19. Critical Care
UNIT 4: PERIOPERATIVE PATIENT CARE
20. Preoperative Nursing Mgmt
21. Intraoperative Nursing Mgmt
22. Postoperative Nursing Mgmt
UNIT 5: Alterations in Cardiovascular and Hematologic Function
23. Assessment of Cardiovascular and Hematologic Function
24. Coronary Artery Dysfunction: Nursing Mgmt
25. Heart Failure and Inflammatory Dysfunction: Nursing Mgmt
26. Arrhythmias: Nursing Mgmt
27. Vascular Dysfunction: Nursing Mgmt
28. Hypertension : Nursing Mgmt
29. Hematologic Dysfunction: Nursing Mgmt
UNIT 6: Alterations in Respiratory Function
30. Assessment of Respiratory function
31. Upper Airway Dysfunction: Nursing Mgmt
32. Lower Airway Dysfunction: Nursing Mgmt
33. Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Nursing Mgmt
UNIT 7: Alterations in Neurologic Function
34. Assessment of Neurologic Function
35. Dysfunction of: the Brain: Nursing Mgmt
36. Dysfunction of the Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nervous System: Nursing Mgmt
37. Degenerative Neurological Dysfunction: Nursing Mgmt
UNIT 8: Alterations in Sensory Function
38. Assessment of Sensory function
39. Visual dysfunction: Nursing Mgmt
40. Auditory dysfunction: Nursing Mgmt
UNIT 9: Alterations in Immunologic Function
41. Assessment of immunologic Function
42. Immunodeficiency and HIV Infection/AIDS: Nursing Mgmt
43. Allergic Dysfunction: Nursing Mgmt
UNIT 10: Alterations in Integumentary Function
44. Assessment of Integumentary Function
45. Dermatologic Dysfunction: Nursing Mgmt
46. Burns: Nursing Mgmt
UNIT 11: Alterations in Gastrointestinal Function
47. Assessment of Gastrointestinal Function
48. Nutrition, Malnutrition, & Obesity: Nursing Mgmt
49. Upper Gastrointestinal Tract dysfunction: Nursing Mgmt
50. Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Dysfunction: Nursing Mgmt
51. Hepatic, Biliary Tract, and Pancreatic dysfunction: Nursing Mgmt
UNIT 12: Alterations in Renal Function
52. Assessment of Renal Function
53. Urinary dysfunction: Nursin... |
