Medical - Surgical Nursing Care

This comprehensive, handy guide to nursing care planning emphasizes client and family teaching and community-based care settings. KEY TOPICS- Highlighting the nursing role related to treatment, it explains the risk factors, causes, and pathophysiology of common disorders and diseases, and reviews diagnostic tests and medical management of the disorders. A focus on nursing care is presented in a nursing process format—including assessment data to collect, nursing diagnoses with suggested interventions and their rationales, and evaluation data to determine the effectiveness of nursing care. MARKET- For licensed practical/vocational nurses to use in their daily clinical practice.