Providing a solid foundation in medical-surgical nursing, Susan deWit's Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts and Practice, 3rd Edition ensures you have the information you need to pass the NCLEX-PN(R) Examination and succeed in practice. Part of the popular LPN/LVN Threads series, this uniquely understandable, concise text builds on the fundamentals of nursing, covering roles, settings, and health care trends; all body systems and their disorders; emergency and disaster management; and mental health nursing. With updated content, chapter objectives, and review questions, this new edition relates national LPN/LVN standards to practice with its integration of QSEN competencies, hypertension, diabetes, and hypoglycemia.
Concept Maps
in the disorders chapters help you visualize difficult material, and illustrate how a disorder's multiple symptoms, treatments, and side effects relate to each other.
Get Ready for the NCLEX(R) Examination section includes Key Points that summarize chapter objectives, additional resources for further study, review questions for the NCLEX(R) Examination, and critical thinking questions.
Nursing Care Plans with critical thinking questions provide a clinical scenario and demonstrate application of the nursing process with updated NANDA-I nursing diagnoses to individual patient problems.
Anatomy and physiologycontent in each body system overview chapter provides basic information for understanding the body system and its disorders, and appears along with Focused Assessmentboxes highlighting the key tasks of data collection for each body system.
Assignment Considerations, discussed in Chapter 1 and highlighted in feature boxes, address situations in which the RN delegates tasks to the LPN/LVN, or the LPN/LVN assigns tasks to nurse assistants, per the individual state nurse practice act.
Gerontologic nursing presented throughout in the context of specific disorders withElder Care Pointsboxes that address the unique medical-surgical care issues that affect older adults.
Safety Alert boxes call out specific dangers to patients and teach you to identify and implement safe clinical care.
Evidence-based Practice icons highlight current references to research in nursing and medical practice.
Patient Teachingboxes provide step-by-step instructions and guidelines for post-hospital care - and prepare you to educate patients on their health condition and recovery.
Health Promotionboxes address wellness and disease prevention strategies that you can provide in patient teaching.
NEW Content
updated with the most current health care standards, including QSEN competencies, hypertension, diabetes, and hypoglycemia, to relate national standards to LPN/LVN practice.
UPDATED Revised chapter objectives and content reflects higher-level critical thinking, communication, patient safety, and priority setting.
UPDATED Get Ready for the NCLEX(R) review questions updated per the 2014 NCLEX-PN(R) test plan.
Автор: Williams, Patricia Название: Virtual Clinical Excursions Online and Print Workbook for deWit`s Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing ISBN: 0323429629 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780323429627 Издательство: Elsevier Science Рейтинг: Цена: 61890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: One of the most complete nursing education learning systems available, Virtual Clinical Excursions is an online program that guides you through a virtual hospital where the patients are real and their conditions are constantly changing. By immersing students in a realistic, yet safe, nursing environment, VCE simulates the average clinical rotation by allowing users to conduct a complete assessment of a patient and set priorities for care, collect information, analyze and interpret data, prepare and administer medications, and reach conclusions about complex problems. Each lesson has a textbook reading assignment and activities based on visiting the patients in the hospital - providing a perfect environment to practice what you are learning.
Duration for access to this product, which may be at the discretion of your institution, is up to 36 months. Elsevier reserves the right to restrict or remove access due to changes in product portfolio or other market conditions.
Автор: Elsevier Inc Название: Virtual Clinical Excursions Online and Print Workbook for Elsevier`s Psychiatric Nursing ISBN: 0323429661 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780323429665 Издательство: Elsevier Science Рейтинг: Цена: 61890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: One of the most complete nursing education learning systems available, Virtual Clinical Excursions guides you through a virtual hospital setting where the patients are real and their conditions are constantly changing. By immersing yourself in a realistic, yet safe, nursing environment, VCE allows you to get acclimated to the routine and rigors of the average clinical rotation where you can conduct a complete assessment of a patient and set priorities for care, collect data, analyze and interpret data, prepare and administer medications, and reach conclusions about complex problems. Each lesson has a textbook reading assignment and activities based on visiting the patients in the hospital, which provide a perfect environment in which you may practice what you are learning.
Duration for access to this product, which may be at the discretion of your institution, is up to 36 months. Elsevier reserves the right to restrict or remove access due to changes in product portfolio or other market conditions.
One of the most complete nursing education learning systems available, Virtual Clinical Excursions 4.0 (VCE) is an interactive print and online workbook that guides you through a virtual hospital where the patients are real and their conditions are constantly changing. Each lesson features a core reading assignment fromAdult Health Nursing, 8th Edition along with activities based on visiting the patients in the hospital. By immersing you in a realistic, yet safe, nursing environment, VCE simulates the average clinical rotation by allowing you to conduct a complete assessment of a patient and set priorities for care, collect information, analyze and interpret data, prepare and administer medications, and reach conclusions about complex problems. This unique virtual setting is the best way to learn about the complexities of patient care since it gives you the perfect environment to practice what you've learned.
Duration for access to this product, which may be at the discretion of your institution, is up to 36 months. Elsevier reserves the right to restrict or remove access due to changes in product portfolio or other market conditions.
Online workbook
guides you throughout the patient scenarios to collect information, make decisions, and set priorities.
Vital signs tool within each patient's room allows you to check the patient's status at critical moments, and promotes safe practice.
Nursing information regarding patients' acute care provides quick access to vital information such as physician's orders, laboratory reports, patient education, nursing admission, and more, offering a richly detailed portrait of the patient.
Unique records that house data from the virtual patient's hospital stay allows you to record new findings to see how the data for different attributes has changed over time.
Physical examination experience with unique images and assessment findings advance your understanding of each patient's system assessments.
Nurse-client interaction videos depict conversations and situations involving nurses, patients, family members, and hospital staff to help you discern between communications that are ideal and those that need improvement.
Patient medication administration enhances your ability to think critically about safe medication practices and follow safe medication standards.
Updated drug reference includes a comprehensive set of the latest drug monographs to help you make the best clinical judgments involving medication administration.
Allows for easy and quick access to various patient charts, including Physician's Orders, Laboratory Reports, Patient Education, Nursing Admission, and many more.
Laboratory guide provides standard value ranges for all laboratory values offered within the virtual patient hospital, so you can confirm and compare standard lab values against your patients' test results.
NEW Updated content from Adult Health Nursing 8th Edition
addressed through patient care activities in the VCE workbook, providing you with active learning of the latest evidence-based care.
