Contemporary medical-surgical nursing : volume 2 /
Rick Daniels and Leslie Nicoll
- Second edition.
- Clifton Park, New York : Delmar Cengage Learning, c2012
- lxiii, 920-1903 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unit I: Nursing and the health care system -- Health care system and contemporary nursing -- Clinical decision-making and evidence based practice, research, and technology -- Health education and promotion -- Culturally sensitive care -- Legal and ethical aspects of health care (including chemical dependency) -- Nursing of adults across the lifespan -- Palliative care. Unit II: Supportive patient care -- Health assessment -- Genetics and the multiple determinants of health -- Stress, coping, and adaptation -- Inflammation and infection management -- Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base imbalances -- Infusion therapy -- Complementary and alternative therapies -- Cancer management -- Pain management -- Pharmacology: nursing management. Unit III: Settings for nursing care -- Health care agencies -- Critical care. Unit IV: Perioperative patient care -- Preoperative nursing management -- Intraoperative nursing management -- Postoperative nursing management. Unit V: Alterations in cardiovascular and hematological function -- Assessment of cardiovascular and hematologic function -- Coronary artery dysfunction: nursing management -- Heart failure and inflammatory dysfunction: nursing management -- Arrhythmias: nursing management -- Vascular dysfunction: nursing management -- Hypertension: nursing management -- Hematologic dysfunction: nursing management. Unit VI: Alterations in respiratory function -- Assessment of respiratory function -- Upper airway dysfunction: nursing management -- Lower airway dysfunction: nursing management -- Obstructive pulmonary disease: nursing management. Unit VII: Alterations in neurological function -- Assessment of neurologic function -- Dysfunction of the CNS: the brain: nursing management -- Dysfunction of the CNS: the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system: nursing management -- Degenerative neurological dysfunction: nursing management. Unit VIII: Alterations in sensory function -- Assessment of sensory function -- Visual dysfunction: nursing management -- Auditory dysfunction: nursing management. Unit IX: Alterations in immunological function -- Assessment of immunological function -- Immunodeficiency and HIV infection/AIDS: nursing management -- Allergic dysfunction: nursing management. Unit X: Alterations in integumentary function -- Assessment of integumentary function -- Dermatologic dysfunction: nursing management -- Burns: nursing management. Unit XI: Alterations in gastrointestinal function -- Assessment of gastrointestinal function -- Nutrition, malnutrition, and obesity: nursing management -- Upper gastrointestinal tract dysfunction: nursing management -- Lower gastrointestinal tract dysfunction: nursing management -- Hepatic, biliary tract, and pancreatic dysfunction: nursing management. Unit XII: Alterations in renal function -- Assessment of renal function -- Urinary dysfunction: nursing management -- Renal dysfunction: nursing management. Unit XIII: Alterations in endocrine function -- Assessment of endocrine function -- Endocrine dysfunction: nursing management -- Diabetes mellitus: nursing management. Unit XIV: Alterations in musculoskeletal function -- Assessment of musculoskeletal function -- Musculoskeletal dysfunction: nursing management -- Musculoskeletal trauma: nursing management. Unit XV: Alterations in reproduction function -- Assessment of reproductive function -- Female reproductive dysfunction: nursing management -- Breast alterations: nursing management -- Male reproductive dysfunction: nursing management. Unit XVI: Special considerations in medical and surgical nursing -- Multisystem failure --
Is an exciting new offering of this comprehensive, concept based text, which is created for instructors and students to address the adult health concepts that supports the most current holistic nursing practice.