Study Guide for Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing
ISBN: 9781437722147 | 1437722148
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: SAUNDERS W B CO
Pub. Date: 2/1/2011
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Student-friendly and easy to use, the Study Guide for Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, 5th Edition, is designed to help you master content and evaluate your progress through practical, useful exercises and activities, including a wealth of multiple-choice and alternate-format questions. This edition places an increased emphasis on higher-level application questions, including exercises to encourage practice in setting priorities, to prepare you to transfer your knowledge of medical-surgical concepts to patient care in the cli... MORE
-Helps you hone critical thinking skills essential for success on licensure exams and in clinical practice.
-Reinforces textbook content and provides ample opportunity for self-assessment with a wide variety of learning activities, including matching (key term and vocabulary review), completion, listing, labeling (illustrations), ranking/ordering, and application questions for textbook nursing care plans.
-Includes textbook page references, making self-assessment easier and faster.
-Emphasizes application of nursing concepts with new knowledge and comprehension exercises and activities that ask you to apply your knowledge to patient care situations.
-Features a new section at the end of each chapter: Challenge Yourself! Getting Ready for the NCLEX includes both standard multiple-choice and alternate-format questions (over 1,800) that test your knowledge of chapter content while providing practice for the Boards.
-Provides valuable practice in prioritizing (deciding what to do first) and assignment (giving specific tasks to health care providers who may be supervised by LPNs) -- skills that are essential for providing effective nursing care and are covered on the NCLEX-PN Examination.
-Links you to online Evolve resources, where you'll find an additional set of review questions, encouraging utilization of and familiarity with an electronic format.
Galen College of Nursing, San Antonio, TX. Study guide contains practical exercises and activities for mastering content and evaluating understanding of key concepts in the textbook by Linton. Includes multiple-choice and alternate-item format questions. For student nurses. Previous edition: c2007. Softcover, textbook and Virtual Clinical Excursions also available.
| Patient Care Concepts | |
| The Health Care System | |
| Patient Care Settings | |
| Legal and Ethical Considerations | |
| The Leadership Role of the Licensed Practical Nurse | |
| The Nurse-Patient Relationship | |
| Cultural Aspects of Nursing Care | |
| The Nurse and the Family | |
| Health and Illness | |
| Nutrition | |
| Devel... MORE | |
| The Older Patient | |
| The Nursing Process and Critical Thinking | |
| Physiologic Responses to Illness | |
| Inflammation, Infection, and Immunity | |
| Fluid and Electrolytes | |
| Pain Management | |
| Acute Care | |
| First Aid and Emergency Care | |
| Surgical Care | |
| Intravenous Therapy | |
| Shock | |
| Long-Term Care and Home Health Care | |
| Falls | |
| Immobility | |
| Confusion | |
| Incontinence | |
| Loss, Death, and End-of-Life Care | |
| Cancer | |
| The Patient with Cancer | |
| The Ostomy Patient | |
| Neurologic Disorders | |
| Neurologic Disorders | |
| Cerebrovascular Accident | |
| Spinal Cord Injury | |
| Respiratory Disorders | |
| Acute Respiratory Disorders | |
| Chronic Respiratory Disorders | |
| Hematologic and Immunologic Disorders | |
| Hematologic Disorders | |
| Immunologic Disorders | |
| HIV/AIDS | |
| Cardiovascular Disorders | |
| Cardiac Disorders | |
| Vascular Disorders | |
| Hypertension | |
| Digestive Disorders | |
| Digestive Tract Disorders | |
| Disorders of the Liver, Gallbladder, and Pancreas | |
| Urologic Disorders | |
| Urologic Disorders | |
| Musculoskeletal Disorders | |
| Connective Tissue Disorders | |
| Fractures | |
| Amputations | |
| Endocrine Disorders | |
| Pituitary and Adrenal Disorders | |
| Thyroid and Parathyroid Disorders | |
| Diabetes Mellitus and Hypoglycemia | |
| Reproductive Disorders | |
| Female Reproductive Disorders | |
| Male Reproductive Disorders | |
| Sexually Transmitted Diseases | |
| Integumentary Disorders | |
| Skin Disorders | |
| Disorders of the Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Throat | |
| Eye and Vision Disorders | |
| Ear and Hearing Disorders | |
| Nose, Sinus, and Throat Disorders | |
| Mental Health and Illness | |
| Psychological Responses to Illness | |
| Psychiatric Disorders | |
| Substance-Related Disorders | |
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