Smeltzer & Bare's Medical-Surgical Nursing (ANZ) 2E

• Units 1-2 focus on key national  health priorities, core concepts and skills.
• Units 4-16 focus on specific health conditions, using the nursing process framework to clarify the nurse's responsibilities in caring for patients.
• Pedagogy is clear and sustained throughout by Learning Objectives, Glossaries, Clinical Reasoning Exercises and Evidence Based Practice points.
• Gerontological considerations are integrated throughout.
• The practice-orientated text explores the complex roles of the nurse as Practitioner, Educator, Patient Advocate and Researcher, providing a focus on what to know and what to do in critical situations.
• Medical and nursing management include a focus on patient education and continuing care in the community.
• Tabulated information on Assessment, Ethics, Genetics, Gerontological issues, Healthcare promotion, Homecare, Pharmacology, Risk factors, Guidelines, and Nursing Care plans is given in Charts.
• The first chapter n each of the Units 4-16 reviews normal anatomy and physiology of the body system.  Subsequent chapters cover management of specific disorders: definition, aetiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, assessment and diagnostic findings.
• No references prior to 2004, unless they are seminal.

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