num_pages: 2096
description: This well-respected, comprehensive textbook covers the complete diagnosis and treatment of the most common conditions encountered in the care of adults. Its straightforward writing style promotes quick comprehension of the subject matter, yet the text is known for its solid, balanced presentation of medical and nursing management and for its in-depth coverage of pathophysiology. The eighth edition brings together a superior author team and includes outstanding content and features that reflect the evolving field of medical-surgical nursing and will help students pass the NCLEX-RN® examination. Nursing Management sections have been reorganised for clearer correlation of nursing diagnoses, appropriate patient goals and outcomes, and associated interventions.Preparing for Practice boxes in select chapters are linked to a new interactive clinical setting on the Companion CD. Students have the opportunity to use critical thinking skills and clinical judgment to care for patients within a simulated hospital setting.New and expanded chapters related to genetics and disease, emerging infections and bioterrorism, palliative care, and rehabilitation.Are You Ready? boxes sprinkled throughout the text test students' mastery of content just covered, building a knowledge base.Ethical Alert boxes discuss current ethical issues that nurses face in clinical practice including decision-making, genetic testing and therapy, and forced immunization.Legal Alert boxes discuss critical legal considerations including protocol for medical and nursing interventions, patient consent for treatment or testing, and duty to warn.Key terms with page number references are listed at the beginning of each chapter and marked with bold in the text narrative.
language: English
title: Phipps' Medical-Surgical Nursing: Health and Illness Perspectives (Medical Surgical Nursing: Concepts & Clinical Practice
titlecomplete: Phipps' Medical-Surgical Nursing: Health and Illness Perspectives (Medical Surgical Nursing: Concepts & Clinical Practice (Phipps))
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Mosby