Brunner & Suddarth's textbook of medical-surgical nursing - Brunner, Lillian Sholtis; Smeltzer, Suzanne C. O'Connell (Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010)
Health care delivery and nursing practice -- Community-based nursing practice -- Critical thinking, ethical decision making, and the nursing process -- Health education and health promotion -- Adult health and nutritional assessment -- Homeostasis, stress, and adaptation -- Individual and family considerations related to illness -- Perspectives in transcultural nursing -- Genetics and genomics perspectives in nursing -- Chronic illness and disability -- Principles and practices of rehabilitation -- Health care of the older adult -- Pain management -- Fluid and electrolytes: balance and disturbance -- Shock and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome -- Oncology: nursing management in cancer care -- End-of-life care -- Preoperative nursing management -- Intraoperative nursing management -- Postoperative nursing management -- Assessment of respiratory function -- Management of patients with upper respiratory tract disorders -- Management of patients with chest and lower respiratory tract disorders -- Management of patients with chronic pulmonary disease -- Respiratory care modalities -- Assessment of cardiovascular function -- Management of patients with dysrhythmias and conduction problems -- Management of patients with coronary vascular disorders -- Management of patients with structural, infectious, and inflammatory cardiac disorders -- Management of patients with complications from heart disease -- Assessment and management of patients with vascular disorders and problems of peripheral circulation -- Assessment and management of patients with hypertension -- Assessment and management of patients with hematologic disorders -- Assessment of digestive and gastrointestinal function -- Management of patients with oral and esophageal disorders
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Keywords: Nursing; Surgical nursing; Nursing Care; Perioperative Nursing