- Disorders section covers commonly encountered medical-surgical conditions in a consistent, clinically relevant presentation that includes:
- Definition/Description
- Pathophysiology
- Clinical Manifestations
- Complications
- Diagnostic Studies
- Collaborative Care (including Drug Therapy, where relevant)
- Nursing Management
- Goals
- Nursing Diagnoses (using the most current NANDA terminology)
- Nursing Interventions
- Patient and Caregiver Teaching
- Treatments and Procedures section provides need-to-know information on common medical-surgical treatments and procedures.
- Reference Appendix features key reference information commonly used in nursing practice, including laboratory values, commonly used formulas, and Spanish translations of key phrases.
- Patient teaching content is highlighted with a special icon, identifying information that patients and caregivers need to know about the care of various conditions.
- Cross-references to Lewis: Medical-Surgical Nursing, 8th Edition make it easy to locate more in-depth information.
Clinical Companion to Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, 8e (Lewis, Clinical Companion to Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of C)
$11.70 - $300.00
- UPC:
- 9780323066624
- Maximum Purchase:
- 3 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 2010-12-03
- Author:
- Sharon L. Lewis RN PhD FAAN;Linda Bucher RN PhD CEN CNE;Margaret M. Heitkemper RN PhD FAAN;Shannon Ruff Dirksen RN PhD
- Language:
- english
- Edition:
- 8