Virtual Clinical Excursions for Lewis, Heitkemper, and Dirksen: Medical-Surgical Nursing : Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems

by Giddens, Jean

• ISBN13: 9780323017343
• ISBN10: 0323017347
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science div

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 their nurses take their vital signs and perform a variety of tests, formulate nursing diagnoses, and plan interventions. Each workbook lesson has a reading assignment from Lewis, Heitkemper & Dirksen: Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, 5th 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)
Part I-General Concepts of Nursing Practice
The Continuum of Patient Care (Chapter 2)	29	(12)
Adult Development (Chapter 3)	41	(6)
Health History and Physical Examination-Part I (Chapter 5)	47	(10)
Health History and Physical Examination-Part II (Chapter 5)	57	(8)
Patient Teaching (Chapter 6)	65	(8)
Stress Response (Chapter 7)	73	(4)
Complementary and Alternative Therapies (Chapter 8)	77	(8)
Pain (Chapter 9)	85	(8)
Part II-Pathophysiologic Mechanisms of Disease
Inflammation and Infection (Chapter 11)	93	(10)
HIV-Part I (Chapter 13)	103	(12)
HIV-Part II (Chapter 13)	115	(12)
Cancer (Chapter 14)	127	(8)
Fluid and Electrolyte Imbalance-Part I: Preclinical Preparation (Chapter 15)	135	(10)
Fluid and Electrolyte Imbalance-Part II (Chapter 15)	145	(8)
Part III-The Surgical Experience
Perioperative Care (Chapters 16, 17, and 18)	153	(8)
Part IV-Problems of Oxygenation: Ventilation
Pneumonia-Part I: Preclinical Preparation (Chapters 24 and 26)	161	(10)
Pneumonia-Part II (Chapters 24 and 26)	171	(12)
COPD (Chapters 24 and 27)	183	(12)
Part V-Problems of Oxygenation: Perfusion
Hypertension (Chapters 30 and 31)	195	(10)
Coronary Artery Disease (Chapters 30 and 32)	205	(6)
Congestive Heart Failure-Part I: Tuesday (Chapter 33)	211	(10)
Congestive Heart Failure-Part II: Thursday (Chapter 33)	221	(10)
Part VI-Problems of Ingestion, Digestion, Absorption, and Elimination
Nutritional Problems (Chapter 38)	231	(6)
Part VII-Problems Related to Regulatory Mechanisms
Diabetes Mellitus-Part I: Tuesday (Chapters 45 and 46)	237	(10)
Diabetes Mellitus-Part II: Thursday (Chapter 46)	247	(8)
Part VIII-Problems Related to Movement and Coordination
Closed Head Injury (Chapters 53 and 54)	255	(8)
Acute Spinal Cord Injury-Part I: Preclinical Preparation (Chapter 57)	263	(8)
Acute Spinal Cord Injury-Part II (Chapter 57)	271	(10)
Skeletal Fracture (Chapter 58 and 59)	281	(10)
Osteomyelitis (Chapter 59)	291	(10)
Answers	301