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This product is NON-RETURNABLE.Focus on Adult Health: Medical-SurgicalNursing 3E separates the wheat from the chaff by drilling down to the essential content that students need to know. This book provides the foundation of medical-surgical nursing with core content, values, and skills.
Focus on Adult Health: Medical-SurgicalNursing 3E is not designed to answer every question related to internal medical and surgical care. Instead the intentional design of the book is to give depth and breadth to the essentials. Written by nurses active in clinical practice and education, these expert clinicians know what qualifies as “need-to-know” content. This book includes rigorously researched current references and innovative technologies in the treatment of diabetes and kidney disease with new monitors and dialysis options.
This text focuses on teaching students adult health content with a true clinical focus and 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.
Key Features in 3E:- GUIDELINES FOR NURSING CAREprovide steps and rationales for important procedures.
- Updated!Focused Assessment boxessummarize important assessment criteria and significant findings related to a particular disorder.
- Updated!Risk Factorsprovide a bulleted list of risk factors for a particular disorder, drawing attention to factors that can impair health.
- Updated!Patient Educationsummarizes patient teaching, home care, and discharge planning. Health Promotion reviews important points the nurse should discuss with the patient to prevent common health problems from developing.
- Expanded!Gerontologic Considerationshighlight information that pertains specifically to the care of older adults who comprise the fastest-growing segment of our population.
- Updated!Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests tableslist common lab tests for particular disorders along with normal values, critical values, and nursing implications.
- Updated!Nursing Research: Bridging the Gap to Evidence-Based Practice demonstrates the nursing implications of important research.
- Expanded!Focus on Pathophysiologyhighlights and describes important pathophysiologic processes.Nutrition Alerthighlights nutritional considerations for particular disorders.
- Expanded!Nursing Alertsoffer brief tips or highlight red-flag warnings for clinical practice.
- Updated!Drug Alertshighlight key nursing considerations and drug safety information.
- New!Concept Mastery Alertsclarify difficult concepts, informed by data from Misconception Alert questions in PrepU for Focus on Adult Health: Medical-Surgical Nursing 3E.
- 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.