Medical-Surgical Nursing Care [With CDROM]

This comprehensive, handy guide to nursing care planning emphasizes client and family teaching and community-based care settings. Highlighting the nursing role related to treatment, it explains the risk factors, causes, and pathophysiology of common disorders and diseases, and reviews diagnostic tests and medical management of the disorders. A focus on nursing care is presented in a nursing process format -- including assessment data to collect, nursing diagnoses with suggested interventions and their rationales, and evaluation data to determine the effectiveness of nursing care.