Medical Surgical Nursing: Concepts and Practice 5th Edition

• Nursing care plans show plans of care based on patient history and include patient goals and outcomes, with critical thinking questions allowing you to assess your understanding of related nursing concepts.
• Concept maps illustrate how a disorder’s symptoms, treatments, and side effects relate to each other.
• Safety alerts emphasize safety precautions to protect patients, family, health care providers, and the public from accidents, spread of disease, and medication-related accidents.
• Focused Assessment boxes show how to collect patient data, including history and physical and psychosocial assessment, with guidance on collecting information for specific disorders.
• Communication boxes help in developing therapeutic communication skills in realistic patient care situations.
• Patient Teaching boxes provide instructions and guidelines for educating patients in self-care.
• Elder Care Points address the unique care issues that affect older adults and provide suggestions for assessment and interventions for long-term patients.

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