Prentice Hall Nursing Reviews & Rationales Medical-Surgical Nursing

by Hogan, MaryAnn; Estridge, Stacy, BSN, MN; Zygmont, Dolores, RN, PhD; Davenport, Joan, RN, PhD

• ISBN13: 9780131789708
• ISBN10: 0131789708
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-18
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Essential for NCLEX, course and competencey review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of medical-surgical nursing. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post chapter tests with comprehensive rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts and new test-taking strategies. Included in the Prentice Hall's Nursing Reviews & Rationales Series, is a unique comprehensive CD-ROM with 700 practice questions that provides additional review.Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering nursing care for respiratory, cardiac, neurological, renal, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, and other health problems, emergency and critical care, and much more. For nursing students in need of a resource that focuses on course review or NCLEX review as well as nursing professionals looking to familiarize themselves with a new specialty.

Author Biography

Mary Ann Hogan, MSN, RN has been a nurse educator for 25 years, currently as a Clinical

Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught in

diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate nursing programs.A former item writer for

the CAT NCLEX-RN® exam,Ms. Hogan has been teaching review courses throughout

New England for the last 15 years. She also has contributed to a number of publications

in the areas of adult health, pharmacology, and fundamentals of nursing. She is a member

of the American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor

Society for Nursing.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vi
Contributors and Reviewers of the First Edition	p. xii
Nursing Process, Physical Assessment, and Common Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests	p. 1
Respiratory Disorders	p. 44
Cardiac Disorders	p. 93
Peripheral Vascular Health Problems	p. 130
Neurological Disorders	p. 161
Renal and Urinary Disorders	p. 204
Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disorders	p. 248
Gastrointestinal Disorders	p. 288
Musculoskeletal Disorders	p. 323
Integumentary Disorders	p. 359
Immunologic Disorders	p. 398
Cullular Disorders (Oncology)	p. 436
Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders	p. 464
Hematologic Disorders	p. 503
Reproductive and Sexual Disorders	p. 543
Eye and Ear Disorders	p. 601
Common Problems Encountered in Emergency and Critical Care Nursing	p. 635
Suggested Answers to Practice to Pass & Case Study Questions	p. 693
Index	p. 710
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