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Medical Surgical Nursing (2 Vol. set) | 
| Author: Joyce Black
Publisher: Harcourt
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2916388
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 5th (Without Study Guide)
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 2604
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10.7
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 9 x 4.3
ISBN: 0721674844
Dewey Decimal Number: 617
EAN: 9780721674841
ASIN: 0721674844
Publication Date: June 1997
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Product Description
Each edition of Medical-Surgical Nursing has not only covered new developments in nursing, it has actively anticipated trends and advances. The 7th edition keeps readers on the cutting edge with the very latest information on nursing practice. It presents more detailed coverage of basic anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, medical management, and nursing care than any other book available. Its focus on clinical outcome management emphasizes patient outcomes and makes the material understandable. A completely new design integrates information in the book with web enhancements on the accompanying Evolve website, such as online exercises, care plans, client education guides, and clinical pathways, as well as more on chapter topics such as diversity, ethics, religious beliefs affecting health care, and more.
- Evidence Based Practice in Action boxes in certain management chapters present a synopsis of the research with 4-5 supporting article summaries, to help readers understand the clinical significance of a problem. This feature has been revised for this edition.
- Concept Maps link pathophysiological processes, clinical manifestations, and medical and nursing interventions. A concept map creator on Evolve further enhances learning (Online).
- Complementary & Alternative Therapy boxes throughout the text highlight nontraditional therapies used by clients and healthcare providers to treat various conditions. This feature has been completely rewritten for this edition.
- Case studies present complex client scenarios with in-depth clinical problems, most with multiple clinical problems. An introduction in the text ties each case to chapter content, and specific details about the case are presented on Evolve, followed by discussions, multiple-choice questions, and a nursing care plan (Online).
- Thinking Critically Questions conclude each nursing care chapter and pose short, typical client scenarios followed by questions about what actions to take. Discussions of all the questions on Evolve provide insight into the reasoning behind appropriate actions (Online).
- Diversity in Health Care boxes feature discussions of health and illness related to particular populations.
- Client Education Guides provide examples worded in client-centered language demonstrate how to teach clients to collaborate in their own care.
- Care plans are a tabular presentation of nursing care, using the nursing process format, highlighting both nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems, expected outcomes, interventions with rationale, and evaluation.
- Ethical Issues in Nursing discussions present an ethical dilemma in the form of a question, followed by an in-depth discussion (Online).
- Case Management boxes are all written by a practicing case manager, presenting key coordination and anticipatory issues to link nursing care with patient-focused case management (Online).
- Bridge to Home Health Care feature describes specific applications and strategies for med-surg care in the home, while broadening applications of content beyond hospital to the home setting where many nurses now practice.
- Management and Delegation boxes present the primary concerns associated with delegating care activities to assistive personnel. Three new topics include Overview of Health Care Delivery, Clients Having Surgery, and Management of Clients with Vascular Disorders.
- NOC boxes appear in chapters containing nursing diagnoses content. Appropriate suggested NOC outcome labels are presented at the beginning of chapters containing nursing diagnoses content to introduce readers to NOC language, the standardized nursing vocabulary for measuring patient outcomes.
- Bridge to Critical Care feature highlights major critical care concerns, and includes new bridges for defibrillation and transplant.
- Critical Monitoring boxes alert the reader to clinical manifestations that must be reported to the physician immediately.
- Anatomy & Physiology Review sections serve as introductions to each body system unit with a brief review of the relevant anatomy and physiology of the body system.
- Physical Assessment Findings in the Health Adult remind students of the relevant normal findings for each body system and demonstrate how to chart those findings with clinical precision.
- Excerpts from actual pathways used in hospitals are accompanied by a guide that shows what should occur at specific points in the pathway, as well as how to stay on track when caring for the client (Online).
- Appendices on Evolve include: Religious Beliefs and Practices Affecting Health Care, A Health History Format that Integrates the Assessment of Functional Health Patterns, and Laboratory Values of Clinical Importance in Medical-Surgical Nursing (Online).
- Special features, interactive exercises, weblinks, and bonus material on the Evolve website expand readers' learning and expose them to additional content and study tools online, beyond the comprehensive textbook material.(Online)
- Evidence-based content and references throughout the text are noted in the margin with a special icon.
- Integrating Pharmacology boxes address the purpose of each medication, how the medication reverses or corrects the pathophysiology or reduces side effects, and how the combinations of medications are synergistic.
- Genetic Links boxes present the description, genetics, diagnosis/testing, and management of specific diseases and "link" it to its corresponding genetics.
- Terrorism Alert boxes highlight the symptoms and diseases associated with bioterrorism.
- A list of special features on the Evolve site is provided on every chapter opener, as a quick, user-friendly summary that prompts readers to use the Evolve site as a complement to the text content.
- The most up-to-date content is presented in four new chapters: Genetics; Complementary & Alternative Therapy; Critical Care; and Rehabilitation.
- Anatomy & Physiological Review: Physiological Genomics unit opener for chapters on genetics, perspectives in oncology, cancer, wounds, and infectious disorders orients readers to important anatomy and physiology concepts.
- Anatomy & Physiological Review: Arousal, Pain and Conscious Awareness unit opener for chapters on pain, palliative care, sleep, psychosocial, and substance abuse orients readers to information that will be relevant to chapters in that unit.
- Spanish translations of all Client Education Guides are provided on Evolve (Online).
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 NO OTHER September 11, 2007
This 2-volume book is highly recommendable as it is well written, easily understood, comprehensive and current. To me, its the best med-surg textbook to use.
Medical-Surgical Nursing July 27, 2007
I received this item as described. It was in mint condition with cellophane still wrapped around it. The price for this book and the free shipping was unbelievable. It would have cost me more some where else. The shipping was ridiculously quick. I want to thank Amazon for their wonderful service and making this transaction pleasant.
 Informative but Frustrating May 3, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book contains tons of useful information that you will need as a nurse. However, it is written in such a style that if you are a student approaching med-surg for the first time, you will go through periods of confusion. Some things are written as statements without details and there are gaps in explanations. This book was required for two semesters in my nursing program and I constantly found myself referring to other sources for details and understanding of concepts and then back to this book for the "big" picture. It was very frustrating. But as my experience grew, this book was helpful as a reference. However, I still feel that it is not for beginning med-surg students who have no previous medical background.
 Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Management for Positive Outcomes March 24, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As a nursing student, this was a required text book for my courses. The information contained is very in-depth and informative, but it is a very tough, and at times impossible read for those with limited or no previous medical background. The book comes either as one single book, or in two volumes. Ordering from Amazon.com, I was able to get it in the two- volume version, whereas my classmates are stuck carrying a 2500+ page book with them to their classes every day.
great book to help you start thinking like a nurse December 2, 2005
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I love this textbook! I have only one quarter left until I graduate with an associate's degree in nursing and I needed a textbook that would help me start thinking like a nurse and not just a student trying to pass a test. At my college we used a different textbook that I found confusing and unhelpful. I really wanted and needed a textbook that would help me develop critical thinking skills, not just skills to answer NCLEX-style questions.
Here is what I like about this textbook:
1. There aren't alot of fussy break-out boxes and tables that clutter up the pages. I get distracted very easily, and if there are alot of tables on a page, it is hard for me to stay focused on the text. This book does have tables, boxes and illustrations, but they are simple and easy to comprehend. I found with the other textbook I would get overwhelmed with all the detail and anxious about trying to memorize everything. I feel alot better with this textbook, because it seems to get you focused on what you need to know to practice nursing.
2.The text of this book seems to go from general principals to more specific. For example, the general assessment, pre-op and post op care, and diagnostic tests are described for a body system before the book gets into the specific details of various conditions are discussed. This has helped me to get a big picture and see commonalities for the nursing care before getting into finer details that are disease and condition specific.
3. This textbook give a lot of valuable information. It does try to give the rationales to help you understand why you are doing something. For example, a sign and symptom of hyperkalemia is oliguria or anuria. But, this books goes further to state that oliguria and anuria are often precursors to hyperkalemia and not a result of hyperkalemia. If your kidney can't make urine to excrete potassium, you will get a build up of potassium in the system. This kind of explanation helped me to easily understand and memorize the symptoms of hyperkalemia. I like having the reason described so that I am not left to just memorize without understanding.
4. This textbook also tries to teach you how to delegate to nursing assistants. Before I bought the textbook, I went to the publisher's website and they had a web page devoted to advertising this book. There, the author described that they also looked at how nurses are more and more being pulled into court to defend their nursing care. They looked at areas where nurses are most often involved in litigation, and tried to include teaching about these areas to help furture nurses not get pulled into court. So, throughout the book are boxes that describe delegation issues to help you know what you can and cannot delegate, and what instruction you need to give to people you delegate a task.
5. THis book has critical thinking exercises at the end of most of the chapters. Just doing a few of these exercises has already helped me feel more confident about what I need to do as a nurse with patients in my care. My problem with my other textbook was it just had a few NCLEX questions at the end of a chapter. But, my anxiety was that when you have a real patient, you're not going to be given a list of four things to choose from like you will on a NCLEX test. This textbook has a companion cd and a website where you can go to find a discussion of the critical thinking exercises so you are not left hanging wondering if you came up with a good answer.
Lastly, this textbook comes in a 2-volume set, and I would recommend getting that instead of the single volume. It is a HUGE book, so it is nice to have it broken down into 2 smaller texts that are a more manageable size.
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