Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts & Practice (3rd Edition) – PDF

Susan deWit’s Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts and Practice, 3rd Edition is a concise textbook designed to provide you with a solid foundation in medical-surgical nursing. It covers the fundamentals of nursing, settings, roles, and health care trends, as well as all body systems and their disorders, emergency and disaster management, and mental health nursing. The book integrates QSEN competencies, diabetes, hypertension, and hypoglycemia, and aligns with national LPN/LVN standards.

• Evidence-based Practice icons highlight current research references in nursing and medical practice.
• Safety Alert boxes call attention to specific dangers to patients and teach safe clinical care implementation methods.
• Health Promotion boxes cover wellness and disease prevention strategies that can be used for in-patient teaching.
• Patient Teaching boxes provide step-by-step instructions and guidelines for post-hospital care and educate patients on their health condition and recovery.
• Concept Maps in the disorders chapters help students visualize difficult material, illustrating how a disorder’s multiple symptoms, treatments, and side effects relate to each other.
• The book examines gerontologic nursing, presenting it in the context of specific disorders with Elder Care Points boxes that address the unique medical-surgical care issues that affect older adults.
• Nursing Care Plans with critical thinking questions provide a clinical scenario and demonstrate application of the nursing process using updated NANDA-I nursing diagnoses to individual patient problems.
• Get Ready for the NCLEX® Examination! section includes Key Points summarizing chapter objectives, reviews questions for the NCLEX® Examination, additional resources for further study, and critical thinking questions.
• Assignment Considerations, discussed in Chapter 1 and highlighted in feature boxes, address situations in which the RN delegates tasks to the LPN/LVN or the LPN/LVN assigns tasks to nurse assistants, per the individual state nurse practice act.
• Anatomy and physiology content in each body system overview chapter provides basic information for understanding the human body system and its disorders. They appear alongside Focused Assessment boxes that highlight the key tasks of data collection for each body system.

NOTE: This sale includes only a DeWit’s Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts and Practice, 3e PDF converted from the Kindle ebook. Therefore, the page numbers will NOT match the physical book, and no online codes are included in this sale.