Virtual Clinical Excursions 1. 0 to Accompany Medical-Surgical Nursing : Critical Thinking for Collaborative Care

by Ignatavicius & Kennedy

• ISBN13: 9780721698205
• ISBN10: 0721698204
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-07
• Publisher: Saunders

Summary

Introducing VIRTUAL CLINICAL EXCURSIONS a new breed of workbook that is now a critical component of several of Mosby and W.B. Saunders' most prominent nursing texts. This workbook contains an extraordinary new CD-ROM featuring a virtual hospital setting with five highly individual patients. Users can access and review their charts, lab data, and medication administration records, assess them, monitor daily changes when nurses take their vital signs, perform a variety of tests, formulate diagnoses, and planinterventions. Each workbook lesson has a reading assignment from Ignatavicius & Workman: Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking for Collaborative Care, 4th Edition , as well as activities that involve observing and interacting with the patients in the virtual hospital. The result is a uniquely "hands-on" way to master essential nursing knowledge! Workbook and CD-ROM

Table of Contents

Getting Started
Getting Set Up	1	(4)
A Quick Tour	5	(16)
A Detailed Tour	21	(8)
Patient: Carmen Gonzales
Diabetes Mellitus (Chapter 65)	29	(14)
Peripheral Arterial Disease (Chapter 36)	43	(8)
Cultural Aspects of Care (Chapter 6)	51	(4)
Congestive Heart Failure (Chapter 35)	55	(8)
Older Adults (Chapter 5)	63	(4)
Community-Based Care (Chapter 2)	67	(4)
Evaluation of Care (Chapters 35, 37, and 65)	71	(4)
Patient: Sally Begay
Pneumonia (Chapters 27 and 31)	75	(12)
Pain (Chapter 7)	87	(4)
Cultural Aspects of Care (Chapter 6)	91	(2)
Chronic Bronchitis and Tuberculosis (Chapters 30 and 31)	93	(8)
Complementary Therapies (Chapter 4)	101	(2)
Community-Based Care (Chapter 2)	103	(4)
Evaluation of Care (Chapters 31 and 32)	107	(4)
Patient: Ira Bradley
HIV/AIDS (Chapter 22)	111	(12)
Pain (Chapter 7)	123	(4)
Cultural Aspects of Care (Chapter 6)	127	(2)
Malnutrition (Chapter 61)	129	(8)
End-of-Life Issues (Chapter 9)	137	(4)
Community-Based Care (Chapter 2)	141	(4)
Evaluation of Care (Chapter 22)	145	(4)
Patient: David Ruskin
Fracture (Chapter 52)	149	(12)
Traumatic Brain Injury (Chapter 42)	161	(6)
Cultural Aspects of Care (Chapter 6)	167	(4)
Pulmonary Embolism and Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (Chapter 32)	171	(8)
Case Management (Chapter 3)	179	(4)
Community-Based Care (Chapter 2)	183	(4)
Evaluation of Care (Chapter 52)	187	(4)
Patient: Andrea Wang
Spinal Cord Injury (Chapter 43)	191	(10)
Autonomic Dysreflexia and Urinary Retention (Chapter 43)	201	(10)
Cultural Aspects of Care (Chapter 6)	211	(4)
Case Management (Chapter 3)	215	(4)
Rehabilitation (Chapter 10)	219	(6)
Community-Based Care (Chapter 2)	225	(4)
Evaluation of Care (Chapter 43)	229	(4)
Patients: Carmen Gonzales & David Ruskin
Infection (Chapter 26)	233	(10)
Patients: Sally Begay & Ira Bradley
Oxygenation (Chapter 32)	243	(12)
Patients: Ira Bradley & David Ruskin
Central Nervous System (Chapter 45)	255	(8)
Patients: Andrea Wang & Sally Begay
Adult Development (Chapter 5)	263	(8)
Patients: Andrea Wang & Carmen Gonzales
Shock (Chapter 37)	271	(8)
Answers	279