Saunders Manual of Nursing Care

by Luckmann, Joan

• ISBN13: 9780721650173
• ISBN10: 0721650171
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science div

Summary

This valuable resource assembles everything readers need to know about any nursing situation in one place; presents it in a concise, outline format; and illustrates it with brilliantly executed color figures. Special boxes offer valuable reminders about essential nursing care precautions, drugs, care of older people, law and ethics, home health care, clinical controversies, and other key concerns. SAUNDERS MANUAL OF NURSING CARE provides thorough, practical information on a full range of physical disorders and psychosocial problems. It also offers coverage not found in other manuals includingtechniques for caring for people with fluid, electrolyte, and acid-baseimbalances, people in pain, people in shock, and people with environmental and occupational disorders.

Table of Contents

I Challenges Facing Nurses in the 1990s and Beyond	1	(80)
Problem Solving in Nursing	3	(20)
Providing Transcultural Nursing Care	23	(44)
Managing the Modern Clinical Environment	67	(14)
II Performing a Holistic Health Assessment	81	(84)
Obtaining the Basic Health History	83	(18)
Performing the Basic Physical Assessment	101	(50)
Performing the Basic Psychosocial Assessment	151	(14)
III Caring for People with Special Medical-Surgical Needs and Problems	165	(244)
Caring for People with Disabilities	167	(34)
Caring for People with Infections and Infectious Disorders	201	(34)
Caring for People with Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Imbalances	235	(56)
Caring for People with Nutritional Disorders	291	(47)
Caring for People in Pain	338	(26)
Caring for People in Shock	364	(17)
Caring for People Undergoing Surgery	381	(28)
IV Caring for People with Special Developmental Needs and Problems	409	(178)
Caring for Families in the Childbearing Cycle	411	(60)
Caring for Infants, Children, and Adolescents	471	(84)
Caring for Older People	555	(32)
V Caring for People with Medical-Surgical Disorders	587
Caring for People with Cancer	589	(62)
Caring for People with Neurologic Disorders	651	(91)
Caring for People with Visual Disorders	742	(53)
Caring for People with Ear, Nose, Throat, Head, and Neck Disorders	795	(72)
Caring for People with Immune and Autoimmune Disorders	867	(38)
Caring for People with Respiratory Disorders	905	(76)
Caring for People with Cardiovascular Disorders	981	(110)
Caring for People with Peripheral Vascular and Lymphatic Disorders	1091	(36)
Caring for People with Blood Disorders	1127	(46)
Caring for People with Urinary System Disorders	1173	(68)
Caring for People with Gastrointestinal Disorders	1241	(60)
Caring for People with Hepatic, Biliary, and Pancreatic Disorders	1301	(48)
Caring for People with Endocrine Disorders	1349	(70)
Caring for Men with Sexual and Reproductive System Disorders	1419	(22)
Caring for Women with Sexual and Reproductive System Disorders	1441	(55)
Caring for People with Sexually Transmitted Diseases	1496	(21)
Caring for People with Breast Disorders	1517	(25)
Caring for People with Musculoskeletal Disorders	1542	(75)
Caring for People with Integumentary Disorders	1617	(47)
Caring for People with Burn Injuries	1664	(30)
Caring for People Experiencing Emergencies	1694	(107)
Caring for People with Environmentally and Occupationally Induced Disorders	1801
VI Caring for People with Speical Psychosocial Needs and Problems	18	(1987)
Caring for People Experiencing Life Crises	183	(1661)
Caring for People with Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drug Addictions	1844	(55)
Caring for People with Mental Disorders	1899	(32)
Caring for People with Human Immunodeficien Virus Disease	1931	(21)
Caring for People Who Are Dying and Their Families	1952	(53)
Appendices
Appendix A: Traditional Health Beliefs and Practic of Selected Cultures	1973	(10)
Appendix B: Guidelines for Obtaining Specific Laboratory Cultures	1983	(2)
Appendix C: Clinical Laboratory Values	1985	(15)
Appendix D: Guidelines for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals	2000	(5)
Index	2005