ursing students find a thoroughly updated review with current care guidelines as well as study and test-taking tips -- a popular component of every Nurse Test book. Contents include anatomy and physiology, family planning, antepartum period, intrapartum period, postpartum period, neonatal care, a comprehensive examination, selected references, and ...
Now in its Third Edition, this best-selling handbook is a practical, authoritative guide to more than 600 diseases. Pocket-sized, alphabetically organized, and filled with tips, alerts, and checklists, it targets the key information busy clinicians need at the bedside - signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, and patient concerns. This ...
This carry-along reference addresses the development and progression of disease. Readers master the basic principles and processes of health and disease and how more than 400 individual diseases affect the human body. Causes, pathophysiology, complications, signs and symptoms, and treatments are reviewed for each disease. Also included are ...
A nursing drug handbook, this 2001 edition contains monographs on more than 1000 generic drugs, including 31 newly-appointed drugs. It has a special chapter on 25 of the most commonly-used herbal medicines. The accompanying CD contains ten continuing education tests, a patient teaching library, dangerous drug interactions, and drug imprint code.
This edition contains: onset, peak and duration summarized in a quick-scan chart; "adjust-a-dose" guidelines for patients with special conditions; and an interactive Windows disk with customizable patient-teaching aids, a dosage calculator and tow CE tests which cover neurological and newly-approved drugs. The contents include: advisors and ...
This portable guide provides up-to-date facts on more than 275 infectious diseases, such as West Nile encephalitis, hantavirus, Lyme disease, necrotizing fasciitis, respiratory syncytial virus, and drug-resistant staphylococcal infections. You'll learn causes, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, and special considerations for each ...
Practitioners find complete administration information on more than 600 pediatric drugs, guidelines for calculating pediatric dosages, guidance on teaching parents and patients, and Internet access to drug updates. Contents include principles of pediatric drug therapy, drug entries alphabetized by generic name, components of analgesic combination ...
A manual and coordinated tape clarify subtle differences in heart sounds. Normal and abnormal sounds are included so listeners can learn how they differ. This program covers more than 50 sounds, including those that are the most difficult to identify. Each heart sound is played twice and starts with S(1). Illustrations highlight the location of ...
This student favourite is fully revised with hundreds of questions in each category students need to master. Contents include medical terms and definitions, the nursing process, foundations for nursing practice, communication, patient teaching, leadership, physiological needs, psychosocial needs, special needs, diagnostic tests, therapies, ...
urses now have an Incredibly Easy! way to master care for HIV infection and AIDS. Contents include understanding AIDS, preventing AIDS, assessing the patient at risk for AIDS, treating patients with AIDS, AIDS complications, teaching patients with AIDS and conditions that define AIDS. Filled with spirit-lifting cartoons, memory joggers,and quick ...
Hypertension affects thousands of people in the UK. The emphasis of this text is on patient teaching, both to reduce the risk factors such as stress and to manage the disorder. It also includes information on antihypertensive drugs.
"Diagnostic Tests" cuts through all extraneous details, providing what nurses need to care for patients. It contains nearly all tests--more than 525 in all, including serum electrolytes and enzymes, cultures, urine tests, endoscopies, ultrasound, CT and nuclear medicine scans, magnetic resonance imaging, and more.
Nurses will learn techniques for history taking, physical examination, and exploring the chief complaint. Specific chapters cover assessment of skin, hair, and nails; neurologic function; eyes, ears, nose, and throat; cardiovascular, respiratory, and GI function; and genitourinary and reproductive function. Color photographs show how to identify ...
This portable reference shows airway insertion, endotracheal intubation, CPR, code management, blood transfusion, defibrillation, seizure management, and much more. For each procedure, nurses find indications and contraindications, step-by-step directions, potential complications, and instructions for documentation. Key steps are illustrated and ...
Concise shirt-pocket sized guide to more than 500 drugs, organized alphabetically. Provides generic and trade names, pharmacologic and therapeutic classes, dosage forms, and indications and dosages. Drug updates available on the internet. Appendices include drug comparisons, immunization schedule, and therapeutic drug monitoring guidelines.
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