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Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice

Publication Year:
2018
Edition:
11th
Author:
Nettina, Sandra M.
Publisher:
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
ISBN:
978-1-49-637994-8
Doody's Star Rating®:
Score:
100
Doody Core Title Score:
  • 2.93 (Medical/Surgical) Doodys Essential Title
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A classic nursing reference, the fully updated Lippincott Manual for Nursing Practice, 11th Edition, offers expert nursing knowledge and much-needed practical guidance on patient care.

Authoritative yet easy to follow, this comprehensive text guides you through the nursing concepts and skills particularly vital for medical-surgical assessment, care, and treatment. Essential for both in-the-classroom and on-the-unit guidance, this is the expertise that all students, new nurses, and medical-surgical nurses need to grasp essential nursing concepts, care management, and procedures.

Discover the insights and data that every nurse needs:
  • NEW and updated features – Nursing, Gerontologic, Drug, and Transitional Care Alerts, evidence-based references, diagnostic methods, and drug treatment throughout the book
  • Easy-to-read, well-illustrated outline format – practical, pertinent, and comprehensive content for the busy nurse, including:
    • Patient education – essential self-care, prevention, and health promotion information
    • Nursing assessments – important signs and symptoms and other clinical data to be on the alert for in all types of conditions
    • Body system terminology – how anatomy and physiology are affected by disease in each body system
    • Equipment use – utilizing technology for patient monitoring and therapy
    • Nursing process and practice – systematic use of the nursing process for assessment, planning, and intervention 
    • Emergency nursing – emergent conditions 
    • Psychiatric Nursing – mental health problems
  • Medical-surgical nursing – adult physical assessment, IV therapy, perioperative nursing, cancer nursing, and care of the older or disabled adult
  • Patient care by body system – functions, problems, disorders, and therapies described for the respiratory, cardiovascular, neurologic and sensory, gastrointestinal, renal, genitourinary, reproductive, metabolic, endocrine, hematologic, immunologic, musculoskeletal, and integumentary systems
  • Maternity and neonatal nursing – maternal and fetal health, nursing management during labor and delivery, care of mother and neonate in postpartum period, and complications of childbearing
  • Pediatric nursing – pediatric growth and development, physical assessment, primary care, treatment of pediatric disorders of all body systems, and developmental disabilities
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Platform:
OvidSP
Publisher:
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
Product Type:
Book
Author:
Nettina, Sandra M.
ISBN:
978-1-49-637994-8
Specialty:
  • Advanced Practice
  • Dictionaries & Word References
  • General Interest Nursing
  • Medical/Surgical Nursing
  • Nurse Practitioner
  • Pathophysiology
  • Practical/Vocational Nursing
  • References
Language:
English
Edition:
11th
Pages:
1594
Publication Year:
2018
Doody's Star Rating®:
Score:
100
Doody Core Title Score:
  • 2.93 (Medical/Surgical) Doodys Essential Title

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