Focus on adult health : medical-surgical nursing

Designed to prepare students to succeed as practicing nurses by focusing on the most important medical disorders and key nursing responsibilities, this title intends to prepare students for the reality of medical-surgical nursing. It teaches students how to think like a nurse, and how to focus quick...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pellico, Linda Honan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincot Williams & Wilkins Health , c2013
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Basics of adult health Nursing
  • 2. Concepts and challenges in patient management
  • 3. Problems related to gas exchange and respiratiory function
  • 4. Problems related to cardiovascular and circulatory function
  • 5. Problem related to hematologic function
  • 6. Problems related to digestive, gastrointestina, and metabolic function
  • 7. Problems related to urinary tract function
  • 8. Problems related to endocrine function
  • 9. Problems related to reproductive function
  • 10. Problems related to immunologic function
  • 11. Problems related to musculoskeletal function
  • 12. Problems related to neurologic function
  • 13. Problems related to sensorineural function
  • 14. Problems related to integumentary function
  • 15. Other acute problems