MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING: CLINICAL REASONING IN PATIENT CARE, 6TH EDITION

Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Reasoning in Patient Care, 6e provides students with all of the practical knowledge and skills they need to care for adult patients—without overwhelming readers with diseases and disorders that are beyond the beginning nurse’s scope of practice. Carefully selected content focuses on the most salient concepts that new nurses will need to know when they first enter practice: how to promote health, facilitate recovery from illness and injury and provide support when coping with disability or loss. Throughout the text, the authors focus on individualized holistic nursing care as the crucial element in learning and practicing nursing and the readers are given the tools they need to develop their clinical reasoning ability so that they can make safe and effective decisions on the job. With its understandable language, visual approach and consistent teaching and learning format, it’s no surprise that students across the globe overwhelmingly report that they truly like reading this text. New and enhanced Clinical Competencies at the beginning of each chapter have been revised to clearly reflect QSEN competencies New chapters on Informatics and Evidence-Based Practice in Medical-Surgical Nursing, Perioperative Nursing and Nursing Care of Patients with Communicable DiseasesPriorities of Care help the student prioritize care, particularly in acute situations Moving Knowledge into Action provide students with opportunities to reflect on and apply their learning to patient care situations Expected Outcomes appear after every nursing diagnosis to help the student identify the goal of planned nursing interventionsContinuity of Care focuses on the nurse’s responsibility for preparing the patient and caregivers for transitions of care from one healthcare setting to another or to the homePreface.