Cover of Medical-surgical nursing

Medical-surgical nursing

This comprehensive nursing textbook guides students from foundational to advanced concepts in caring for adults with medical and surgical conditions. It reviews the anatomy and physiology behind each disorder, the underlying disease processes, standard medical treatment, and the nursing actions that follow. Throughout, readers see how current research and clinical guidelines shape daily practice, with features that connect evidence to bedside decisions.

Read more

Practice-focused tools help learners apply what they read. Care plans walk through nursing diagnoses, measurable goals, interventions and their rationales, and evaluation. Short scenarios invite readers to weigh options and set priorities, while concept maps link disease processes to symptoms, treatment, and care. Additional boxes explore medication classes, introduce critical care and home health settings, and address topics such as monitoring, delegation, genetics, and disaster preparedness.

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 2400 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Medical-surgical nursing? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Medical-surgical nursing. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. The tell-tale eye Shares psychophysiology
  2. Human physiology Shares physiology, medical
  3. Joint Structure and Function: A Comprehensive Analysis Shares physiology, medical
  4. The brain and emotion Shares psychophysiology, physiology, medical

“If you want more of the same, start with these.”

  1. Human Anatomy [with Clinical Issues in Anatomy Plus Access to Human Anatomy Place and Anatomy 360 CD-ROM]
  2. Apley's System of Orthopaedics and Fractures
  3. For the Love of Babies: One Doctor's Stories about Life in the Neonatal ICU
  4. Case Files: Internal Medicine

“If it was the psychophysiology that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Mind and brain
  2. The behavioral neuroscience of adolescence
  3. Electrodermal activity
  4. The disordered mind

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Nursing care plans
  2. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care
  3. The Merck Manual of Medical Information
  4. Pathophysiology: The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults and Children, 6th Edition