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Medical - Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems

ISBN: 9780323010481 | 0323010482
Edition: 5th
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science div
Pub. Date: 1/1/2000

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Table of Contents
SECTION 1 GENERAL CONCEPTS OF NURSING PRACTICE
Applying Critical Thinking to the Nursing Process
3(13)
Assessment Phase
6(1)
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Diagnosis Phase
6(1)
Planning Phase
7(2)
Implementation Phase
9(1)
Evaluation Phase
9(7)
Community-Based Nursing and Home Health Care
16(13)
Changing Health Care System
16(1)
Continuum of Patient Care
17(12)
Adult Development
29(14)
Conceptual Approaches to Adult Development
31(2)
Psychodynamic Issues of Adulthood
33(3)
Social Processes in Adulthood
36(2)
Physiologic Processes in Adulthood
38(5)
Gerontologic Considerations
43(23)
Attitudes Toward Aging
44(1)
Age-Related Physiologic Changes
44(6)
Ethnicity and Aging
50(1)
Nursing Process and the Older Adult
51(1)
Teaching Older Adults
52(1)
Health Promotion and Screening
52(1)
Chronic Illness
53(1)
Geriatric Rehabilitation
54(1)
Hospitalization and Acute Illness
54(4)
Social Support and the Older Adult
58(2)
Care Alternatives for Older Adults
60(2)
Legal and Ethical Issues
62(4)
Health History and Physical Examination
66(13)
Interviewing Considerations
66(10)
Problem Identification and Nursing Diagnoses
76(3)
Patient Teaching
79(13)
Role of Patient Teaching
79(1)
Education Process
79(13)
Nursing Management: Stress
92(15)
Theories of Stress
92(1)
Stress as a Response
92(2)
Stress as a Stimulus
94(1)
Stress as a Transaction
95(1)
Physiologic Response to Stress
96(4)
Identifying Stressors or Demands
100(1)
Coping
101(6)
Complementary and Alternative Therapies
107(19)
Biobehavioral Therapies
110(6)
Manual Healing Therapies
116(2)
Traditional and Ethnomedicine Therapies
118(1)
Herbal Therapies
119(7)
Nursing Management: Pain
126(29)
Definitions of Pain
126(1)
Dimensions of Pain
127(5)
Etiology and Type of Pain
132(2)
Assessment of Pain
134(3)
Drug Therapy for Pain
137
Nonpharmacologic Therapy for Pain
a145
Nursing Management: Substance Abuse and Dependence
155(34)
Stimulants
157(7)
Depressants
164(7)
Hallucinogens
171(11)
Special Populations with Substance Abuse Problems
182(1)
Chemical Dependence in Nurses
182(7)
SECTION 2 PATHOPHYSIOLOGIC MECHANISMS OF DISEASE
Nursing Management: Inflammation and Infection
189(23)
Cell Injury
189(1)
Defense Against Injury
190(6)
Healing Process
196(16)
Nursing Management: Altered Immune Responses
212(29)
Normal Immune Response
212(6)
Altered Immune Response
218(6)
Allergic Disorders
224(5)
Autoimmune Phenomena
229(4)
Immunodeficiency Disorders
233(1)
Immune-Related Diseases
234(2)
New Technologies in Immunology
236(5)
Nursing Management: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
241(28)
Transmission of HIV
241(2)
Pathophysiology
243(1)
Clinical Manifestations and Complications
244(3)
Diagnostic Studies
247(2)
Collaborative Care
249(20)
Nursing Management: Cancer
269(54)
Biology of Cancer
270(8)
Classification of Cancer
278(1)
Prevention and Detection of Cancer
279(4)
Collaborative Care
283(33)
Complications Resulting from Cancer
316(2)
Psychologic Support
318(5)
Nursing Management: Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Imbalances
323(32)
Homeostasis
323(7)
Fluid and Electrolyte Imbalances
330(1)
Sodium and Volume Imbalances
330(5)
Potassium Imbalances
335(3)
Calcium Imbalances
338(2)
Phosphate Imbalances
340(1)
Magnesium Imbalances
341(1)
Protein Imbalances
342(1)
Acid-Base Imbalances
342(4)
Assessment of Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Imbalances
346(9)
SECTION 3 THE SURGICAL EXPERIENCE
Nursing Management: Preoperative Patient
355(20)
Surgical Settings
355(1)
Psychosocial Reactions to Surgery
356(1)
Patient Interview
356(1)
Assessment of the Preoperative Patient
357(18)
Nursing Management: Patient During Surgery
375(15)
Physical Environment
375(1)
Surgical Team
376(6)
Classification of Anesthesia
382(8)
Nursing Management: Postoperative Patient
390(27)
Postoperative Care in the Postanesthesia Care Unit
390(1)
Postanesthesia Care Unit Admission
390(9)
Surgical Care of the Patient in the Postanesthesia Care Unit
399(1)
Discharge from the Postanesthesia Care Unit
399(1)
Care of the Postoperative Patient on the Clinical Unit
400(17)
SECTION 4 PROBLEMS RELATED TO ALTERED SENSORY INPUT
Nursing Assessment: Visual and Auditory Systems
417(25)
Structures and Functions: Visual System
417(4)
Assessment: Visual System
421(9)
Diagnostic Studies: Visual System
430(1)
Structures and Functions: Auditory System
431(2)
Assessment: Auditory System
433(3)
Diagnostic Studies: Auditory System
436(6)
Nursing Management: Visual and Auditory Problems
442(40)
Correctable Refractive Errors
443(6)
Eye Trauma
449(1)
Extraocular Disorders
449(4)
Intraocular Disorders
453(5)
Retinal Detachment
458(3)
Age-Related Macular Degeneration
461(1)
Glaucoma
461(8)
External Ear and Canal
469(2)
Middle Ear and Mastoid
471(3)
Inner Ear Problems
474(2)
Hearing Impairment and Deafness
476(6)
Nursing Assessment: Integumentary System
482(11)
Structures and Functions: Skin and Appendages
482(3)
Assessment: Integumentary System
485(6)
Diagnostic Studies: Integumentary System
491(2)
Nursing Management: Integumentary Problems
493(30)
Disorders of the Integumentary System
502(8)
Dermatologic Manifestations of Systemic Diseases
510(1)
Plastic Surgery
510(6)
Pressure Ulcers
516(7)
Nursing Management: Patient with Burns
523(30)
Types of Burn Injury
523(3)
Classification of Burn Injury
526(2)
Phases of Burn Management
528(19)
Emotional Needs of the Patient and Family
547(1)
Special Needs of the Nursing Staff
548(5)
SECTION 5 PROBLEMS OF OXYGENATION: VENTILATION
Nursing Assessment: Respiratory System
553(26)
Structures and Functions: Respiratory System
553(8)
Assessment: Respiratory System
561(8)
Diagnostic Studies: Respiratory System
569(10)
Nursing Management: Upper Respiratory Problems
579(32)
Structural and Traumatic Disorders of the Nose
579(3)
Inflammation and Infection of the Nose and Paranasal Sinuses
582(6)
Obstruction of the Nose and Paranasal Sinuses
588(1)
Problems Related to the Pharynx
588(4)
Problems Related to the Trachea and Larynx
592(1)
Tracheostomy
592(8)
Cancer of the Head and Neck
600(11)
Nursing Management: Lower Respiratory Problems
611(49)
Acute Bronchitis
611(1)
Pneumonia
612(11)
Tuberculosis
623(10)
Lung Cancer
633(10)
Chest Trauma and Thoracic Injuries
643(5)
Chest Surgery
648(4)
Restrictive Respiratory Disorders
652(3)
Vascular Lung Disorders
655(2)
Lung Transplantation
657(3)
Nursing Management: Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases
660(59)
Asthma
660(1)
Triggers of Asthma Attacks
660(2)
Pathophysiology
662(1)
Clinical Manifestations
663(1)
Classification of Asthma
664(1)
Complications
664(1)
Diagnostic Studies
665(1)
Collaborative Care
666(16)
Emphysema and Chronic Bronchitis
682(1)
Etiology
682(1)
Pathophysiology
683(2)
Clinical Manifestations
685(1)
Complications
686(2)
Diagnostic Studies
688(1)
Collaborative Care
688(22)
Cystic Fibrosis
710(1)
Etiology and Pathophysiology
711(1)
Clinical Manifestations
711(1)
Complications
712(1)
Diagnostic Studies
712(1)
Collaborative Care
712(7)
SECTION 6 PROBLEMS OF OXYGENATION: TRANSPORT
Nursing Assessment: Hematologic System
719(17)
Structures and Functions: Hematologic System
719(6)
Assessment: Hematologic System
725(3)
Diagnostic Studies: Hematologic System
728(8)
Nursing Management: Hematologic Problems
736(57)
Anemia Caused by Decreased Erythrocyte Production
739(8)
Anemia Caused by Blood Loss
747(1)
Anemia Caused by Increased Erythrocyte Destruction
748(5)
Polycythemia
753(1)
Problems of Hemostasis
754(12)
Neutropenia
766(2)
Myelodysplastic Syndrome
768(2)
Leukemia
770(7)
Lymphomas
777(3)
Malignancies of Plasma Cells
780(2)
Disorders of the Spleen
782(1)
Blood Component Therapy
782(11)
SECTION 7 PROBLEMS OF OXYGENATION: PERFUSION
Nursing Assessment: Cardiovacular System
793(24)
Structures and Functions: Cardiovascular System
793(5)
Assessment: Cardiovascular System
798(7)
Diagnostic Studies: Cardiovascular System
805(12)
Nursing Management: Hypertension
817(24)
Normal Regulation of Blood Pressure
817(2)
Hypertension
819(1)
Definition
819(1)
Significance
819(1)
Classification of Hypertension
820(1)
Pathophysiology of Primary Hypertension
820(2)
Clinical Manifestations
822(1)
Complications
822(2)
Diagnostic Studies
824(1)
Collaborative Care
824(13)
Hypertensive Crisis
837(4)
Nursing Management: Coronary Artery Disease
841(46)
Angina Pectoris
849(12)
Myocardial Infarction
861(20)
Sudden Cardiac Death
881(1)
Women and Coronary Artery Disease
882(5)
Nursing Management: Congestive Heart Failure and Cardiac Surgery
887(31)
Congestive Heart Failure
887(16)
Cardiomyopathy
903(1)
Dilated Cardiomyopathy
903(3)
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
906(1)
Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
907(1)
``Crack'' Heart
907(1)
Cardiac Surgery
907(11)
Nursing Management: Arrhythmias
918(29)
Evaluation of Arrhythmias
923(1)
Types of Arrhythmias
924(10)
Antiarrhytmic Drugs
934(1)
Defibrillation
934(2)
Pacemakers
936(2)
Catheter Ablation Therapy
938(1)
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
939(1)
Basic Cardiac Life Support
939(4)
Advanced Cardiac Life Support
943(4)
Nursing Management: Inflammatory and Valvular Heart Diseases
947(31)
Inflammatory Disorders of the Heart
947(1)
Infective Endocarditis
947(7)
Acute Pericarditis
954(4)
Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis
958(1)
Myocarditis
958(1)
Rheumatic Fever and Heart Disease
959(5)
Valvular Heart Disease
964(1)
Mitral Stenosis
965(2)
Mitral Regurgitation
967(1)
Mitral Valve Prolapse
967(1)
Aortic Stenosis
968(1)
Aortic Regurgitation
968(10)
Nursing Management: Vascular Disorders
978(35)
Disorders of the Aorta
978(1)
Aneurysms
978(7)
Aortic Dissection
985(1)
Acute Arterial Occlusive Disorders
986(1)
Chronic Arterial Occlusive Disease
987(8)
Disorders of the Veins
995(1)
Thrombophlebitis
995(7)
Varicose Veins
1002(2)
Venous Stasis Ulcers
1004(1)
Pulmonary Embolism
1005(8)
SECTION 8 PROBLEMS OF INGESTION, DIGESTION, ABSORPTION, AND ELIMINATION
Nursing Assessment: Gastrointestinal System
1013(25)
Structures and Functions: Gastrointestinal System
1013(7)
Assessment: Gastrointestinal System
1020(8)
Diagnostic Studies: Gastrointestinal System
1028(10)
Nursing Management: Nutritional Problems
1038(42)
Normal Nutrition
1038(2)
Nutritional Needs
1040(2)
Vitamin Imbalances
1042(2)
Eating Disorders
1044(2)
Malnutrition
1046(7)

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