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• UNIQUE! Evidence-Based Practice icons identify statements based on primary research or standardized guidelines and teach you to base your practice on solid research evidence.
• Translating Evidence into Practice boxes present a topic in the form of a clinical question and summarize the conclusions of 4-5 research articles, encouraging you to judge the research for yourself and consider how it relates to the nursing setting.
• Care Plans highlight nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems, expected outcomes, interventions with rationales, and evaluation to help you prioritize tasks and determine the appropriate treatment.
• Thinking Critically questions at the end of each nursing care chapter pose short, typical client scenarios followed by questions about what actions to take to test your critical thinking skills.
• Concept Maps illustrate the links among pathophysiological processes, clinical manifestations, medical treatment, and nursing interventions.
• Integrating Pharmacology boxes help you understand how medications can be used for disease management by exploring common classifications of routinely used medications.
• Bridge to Critical Care and Bridge to Home Health Care boxes introduce you to critical care and home health nursing by connecting these related specialties to medical-surgical nursing.
• Feature boxes highlight issues in Critical Monitoring, Management and Delegation, Genetics, Terrorism, Community-Based Practice, and Physical Assessment in the Healthy Adult.

• UNIQUE! Completely revised and newly illustrated chapter on structural cardiac disorders provides the latest information on the expected outcomes of transplantation and the related nursing care.
• UNIQUE! Chapter on management of clients with integumentary disorders includes author Joyce Black's cutting-edge research on pressure ulcers.
• Chapter on critical thinking helps you to establish a foundation for high-level nursing care.
• Expanded infectious diseases chapter includes vital content on bioterrorism.
• Revised health assessment chapter introduces the assessment format used throughout the text.
• NIC and NOC labels incorporated throughout in the Nursing Care Plans demonstrate the application of these standardized nursing taxonomies to everyday clinical practice.
• UNIQUE! Integrating Diagnostic Studies boxes in every assessment chapter provide examples of laboratory and imaging studies that may be ordered during the course of a client's illness.
• Safety Alert icons identify common hospital emergencies and The Joint Commission's patient safety goals and sentinel events to help you keep your patients safe.

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Really good and detailed too!!	Customer Rating:
This book is really helping me my Jr. Nursing year, although depending on the diagnosis you may find but a few sentences in it. Overall, I have use the heck of it!!! so I would receommend it.

Multi Volume Sets - Buyer Beware

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When searching for this product, I used the ISBN which matched the required text exactly, except for one critical detail...the description was not accurate. The anticipated "2-Volume Set" I ordered was not what was delivered, instead what I received was only the volume #2 of a 2-Vol Set. Obviously, that leaves me searching for volume #1 which I have still not found leaving me with the option to return the book at my cost and repurchase a complete set at a higher price. So, buyer beware...DO NOT assume the description of the product is what you are actually getting!

NO OTHER	Customer Rating:
This 2-volume book is highly recommendable as it is well written, easily understood, comprehensive and current. To me, its the best med-surg textbook to use.

Medical-Surgical Nursing	Customer Rating:
I received this item as described. It was in mint condition with cellophane still wrapped around it. The price for this book and the free shipping was unbelievable. It would have cost me more some where else. The shipping was ridiculously quick. I want to thank Amazon for their wonderful service and making this transaction pleasant.

Informative but Frustrating

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This book contains tons of useful information that you will need as a nurse. However, it is written in such a style that if you are a student approaching med-surg for the first time, you will go through periods of confusion. Some things are written as statements without details and there are gaps in explanations. This book was required for two semesters in my nursing program and I constantly found myself referring to other sources for details and understanding of concepts and then back to this book for the "big" picture. It was very frustrating. But as my experience grew, this book was helpful as a reference. However, I still feel that it is not for beginning med-surg students who have no previous medical background.