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Lewis's Medical-Surgical Nursing

Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, Single Volume

  • 11th Edition - March 27, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Mariann M. Harding, Jeffrey Kwong, Dottie Roberts, Debra Hagler, Courtney Reinisch
  • Language: English

Get a unique, conceptual approach to nursing care in this rapidly changing healthcare environment. Lewis’s Medical-Surgical Nursing, 11th Edition gives you a solid foundation in… Read more

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Get a unique, conceptual approach to nursing care in this rapidly changing healthcare environment. Lewis’s Medical-Surgical Nursing, 11th Edition gives you a solid foundation in medical-surgical nursing. This thoroughly revised text includes a more conversational writing style, an increased focus on nursing concepts and clinical trends, strong evidence-based content, and an essential pathophysiology review. Content covers all aspects of nursing care including health promotion, acute intervention, and ambulatory care. Helpful boxes and tables make it easy for you to find essential information, and a building-block approach makes even the most complex concepts simple to grasp. Key topics such as interprofessional care, delegation, safety, and prioritization are integrated throughout. Additionally, extensive drug therapy information and diagnostic studies tables give you a full picture of care. Best of all — a complete collection of learning and study resources helps you learn more effectively and offers valuable, real-world preparation for clinical practice.

Key features

  • Content written and reviewed by leading experts in the field
  • ensures that information is comprehensive, current, and clinically accurate.
  • Interprofessional Care tables and sections in all management chapters emphasize the importance of total patient care in today's health care settings and outline the role of each provider in managing disorders.
  • Bridge to NCLEX Examination review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce key content while helping you to prepare for the NCLEX examination with both standard and alternate item format questions.
  • Check Your Practice boxes challenge you to think critically and interact with patient data.
  • Informatics in Practice boxes discuss how technology is used by nurses and patients in healthcare settings.
  • Evidence-based practice boxes help you understand how to apply the latest research to real-life patient care.
  • Safety Alerts throughout the book highlight patient safety issues and focus on the latest National Patient Safety Goals.
  • UNIQUE! Nursing management is presented in a consistent and comprehensive format, addressing the unique approaches to nursing care.
  • Case studies throughout text emphasize prioritization, delegation, and concept mapping to help you learn to prioritize and delegate patient care.
  • Separate chapter on Genetics focuses on practical application to nursing care of patients.
  • Genetics in Clinical Practice boxes cover key topics such as genetic testing, Alzheimer's disease, sickle cell disease, and genetics-related ethics issues.
  • Genetic Risk alerts and Genetic Link headings highlight specific genetic issues related to body system assessments and disorders.
  • Ethical/Legal Dilemmas boxes promote critical thinking for timely and sensitive ethical and legal issues.
  • Pathophysiology Map flow charts make it easier for you to visualize and understand changes occurring in major diseases.
  • Focused Assessment tables reflect a realistic "assessment on the run" approach and offer brief checklists for evaluating the status of previously identified health problems and monitoring for signs of new problems.
  • Extensive drug therapy content includes Drug Therapy tables and concise Drug Alerts highlighting important safety considerations for key drugs.
  • Promoting Population Health tables summarize government health care goals as they relate to specific disorders and identify important strategies for the prevention and early detection of diseases.
  • Nutritional Therapy tables summarize nutritional interventions and strategies for promoting healthy lifestyles in patients with various conditions.
  • Promoting Health Equity boxes and a dedicated chapter on health disparities and culturally competent care highlight risk factors and important issues related to the nursing care of various ethnic groups.
  • Complementary and Alternative Therapies boxes summarize what you need to know about the clinical uses, effects, and nursing implications of herbal remedies and complementary and alternative treatment options.
  • Nursing interventions and nursing diagnoses are listed in order of priority.
  • Nursing Management boxes highlight the nurse’s role in working with members of the interprofessional team and also cover specific topics and skills related to delegation.
  • Assessment Abnormalities tables alert the nurse to frequently encountered abnormalities and their possible etiologies.
  • Core clinical content focuses on highlighting and incorporating QSEN competencies.
  • Emergency Management tables outline the treatment of health problems most likely to create medical emergencies.
  • Learning Outcomes and Key Terms help you identify the key content for that chapter.
  • Health History tables present key questions to ask patients related to a specific disease or disorder.
  • Patient and Caregiver teaching tables provide critical information to help you educate others who will be helping to care for the patient.
  • Gerontology and chronic illness included throughout the text under Gerontologic Considerations headings and in Gerontologic Assessment tables.
  • Nursing Assessment tables summarize the key subjective and objective data related to common diseases.
  • Gender Differences boxes discuss how women and men are affected differently by conditions such as pain and hypertension.
  • Diagnostic Studies tables provide details of commonly used lab tests that help assess various body systems.
  • Over 60 nursing care plans clearly shows the linkages among NIC, NOC, and nursing diagnoses, and applies them to nursing practice.
  • Over 800 full-color illustrations and photographs clearly demonstrate disease processes and related anatomy and physiology.

Table of contents

Section One – Concepts in Nursing Practice

1. Professional Nursing

2. Health Equity and Culturally Competent Care

3. Health History and Physical Examination

4. Patient and Caregiver Teaching

5. Chronic Illness and Older Adults
Section Two – Problems Related to Comfort and Coping

6. Stress Management

7. Sleep and Sleep Disorders

8. Pain

9. Palliative and End-of-Life Care

10. Substance Use Disorders
Section Three – Problems Related to Homeostasis and Protection

11. Inflammation and Healing

12. Genetics

13. Immune Responses and Transplantation

14. Infection

15. Cancer

16. Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Imbalances
Section Four – Perioperative Care

17. Management: Preoperative Care

18. Management: Intraoperative Care

19. Management: Postoperative Care
Section Five – Problems Related to Altered Sensory Input

20. Assessment and Management: Visual Problems

21. Assessment and Management: Auditory Problems

22. Assessment: Integumentary System

23. Management: Integumentary Problems

24. Management: Burns
Section Six – Problems of Oxygenation: Ventilation

25. Assessment: Respiratory System

26. Management: Upper Respiratory Problems

27. Management: Lower Respiratory Problems

28. Management: Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases
Section Seven – Problems of Oxygenation: Transport

29. Assessment: Hematologic System

30. Management: Hematologic Problems
Section Eight – Problems of Oxygenation: Perfusion

31. Assessment: Cardiovascular System

32. Management: Hypertension

33. Management: Coronary Artery Disease and Acute Coronary Syndrome

34. Management: Heart Failure

35. Management: Dysrhythmias

36. Management: Inflammatory and Structural Heart Disorders

37. Management: Vascular Disorders
Section Nine – Problems of Ingestion, Digestion, Absorption, and Elimination

38. Assessment: Gastrointestinal System

39. Management: Nutritional Problems

40. Management: Obesity

41. Management: Upper Gastrointestinal Problems

42. Management: Lower Gastrointestinal Problems

43. Management: Liver, Biliary Tract, Pancreas
Section Ten – Problems of Urinary Function

44. Assessment: Urinary System

45. Management: Renal and Urologic Problems

46. Management: Acute Renal Failure and Chronic Kidney Disease
Section Eleven – Problems Related to Regulatory and Reproductive Mechanisms

47. Assessment: Endocrine System

48. Management: Diabetes Mellitus

49. Management: Endocrine Problems

50. Assessment: Reproductive System

51. Management: Breast Disorders

52. Management: Sexually Transmitted Infections

53. Management: Female Reproductive Problems

54. Management: Male Reproductive Problems
Section Twelve – Problems Related to Movement and Coordination

55. Assessment: Nervous System

56. Management: Acute Intracranial Problems

57. Management: Stroke

58. Management: Chronic Neurologic Problems

59. Management: Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia

60. Management: Peripheral Nerve and Spinal Cord Problems

61. Assessment: Musculoskeletal System

62. Management: Musculoskeletal Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery

63. Management: Musculoskeletal Problems

64. Management: Arthritis and Connective Tissue Diseases
Section Thirteen – Nursing Care in Specialized Settings

65. Management: Critical Care

66. Management: Shock, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

67. Management: Respiratory Failure and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

68. Management: Emergency Care Situations
Appendixes
A: Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers
B: Nursing Diagnosis
C: Laboratory Reference Intervals
Glossary
Index

Product details

  • Edition: 11
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 7, 2019
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Mariann M. Harding

Mariann M. Harding, Nursing Program Director and Professor of Nursing, Kent State University Tuscarawas.
Affiliations and expertise
Nursing Program Director and Professor of Nursing, Kent State University Tuscarawas, USA

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Jeffrey Kwong

Professor Jeffrey Kwong works in the Division of Advanced Nursing Practice, School of Nursing, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Division of Advanced Nursing Practice, School of Nursing, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA

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Dottie Roberts

Affiliations and expertise
Instructor, University of South Carolina College of Nursing, Columbia, South Carolina

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Debra Hagler

Clinical Professor Debra Hagler works at Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University.
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Professor, Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University, USA

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Courtney Reinisch

Courtney Reinisch, Director of Undergraduate Nursing, School of Nursing, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey.
Affiliations and expertise
Director of Undergraduate Nursing, School of Nursing, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA