Visual nursing : a guide to diseases, skills, and treatments

This colorful book for practicing nurses and nursing students provides a unique approach to learning important clinical concepts and techniques. It presents information in a remarkably clear and easy-to-understand fashion, using abundant illustrations to demonstrate hands-on treatments and explain d...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins , c2012
Edition:2nd ed
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Summary:This colorful book for practicing nurses and nursing students provides a unique approach to learning important clinical concepts and techniques. It presents information in a remarkably clear and easy-to-understand fashion, using abundant illustrations to demonstrate hands-on treatments and explain disease pathophysiology. Fully visual text lets the nurse read less and understand more, improving her skills and gaining confidence as a health professional through pictures. Includes hundreds of color illustrations, photographs, wave forms, diagrams, and morecreative visuals; concise, step-by-step instructions to help build nurse's confidence and alleviate fear of hands-on treatments; disease pathophysiology depicted clearly; visual presentation of topics, to make it simple to learn complicated techniques; "Lesson Plans" icon signals important information to teach the patient; "Picturing Patho" icon points to anatomical illustrations demonstrating what happens when a disease occurs; "Hands On" icon shows the nurse how to perform nursing proceduresand techniques and administer treatments. - Publisher.
Physical Description:ix, 502 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 485) and index
ISBN:1609136500 (paperback : alk. paper)
9781609136505 (paperback : alk. paper)