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Clinical Companion for Medical-Surgical Nursing - E-Book
Donna D. Ignatavicius | M. Linda Workman | Chris Winkelman
(2012)
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Abstract
The Clinical Companion for Ignatavicius & Workman: Medical-Surgical Nursing: Patient-Centered Collaborative Care, 7th Edition, is an easy-to-use, A-Z guide to 245 common medical-surgical conditions and their management. Written in a reader-friendly, direct-address style, this handbook is a convenient quick reference that you can carry with you on clinical days.
- A-Z synopses of 245 diseases and disorders, along with related collaborative care, serve as both a quick reference for clinical days and a study resource for essential information
- Streamlined format helps you focus more effectively on nursing care priorities
- Consistent collaborative care format helps you prepare for clinical days more efficiently.
- Special Considerations highlights call your attention to important aspects of nursing care, such as Genetic/Genomic Considerations, Considerations for Older Adults, Women's Health Considerations, and Cultural Considerations.
- National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) icons help you provide safe and effective care by highlighting safety information identified in The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals.
- Concepts of Medical-Surgical Nursing sections provide a quick, one-stop review of eight concepts that are critical to medical-surgical nursing practice.
- A-Z thumb tabs along the edges of the pages facilitate quick access to clinical information for just-in-time learning and review at the bedside.
- 10 quick-reference appendices provide need-to-know, quick-reference coverage of common or important clinical topics
- Guide to Head-To-Toe Physical Assessment of Adults
- Terminology Associated With Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
- Laboratory Values
- Interventions for Common Environmental Emergencies
- Chemical and Biological Agents of Terrorism
- Discharge Planning
- Electrocardiographic Complexes, Segments, and Intervals
- The Patient Requiring Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation
- The Patient Requiring Chest Tubes
- Communication Quick Reference for Spanish-Speaking Patients
- Updated content matches the Ignatavicius & Workman textbook for a reliably seamless reference and study experience.
- UNIQUE! Nursing Safety Priorities highlights have been refined and divided into three types of Nursing Safety Priority highlights: Drug Alert!, Critical Rescue!, and Action Alert! to help you recognize critical situations in which the patient's health or very life may be in jeopardy.
- Increased use of color improves table readability and highlights headings and new Nursing Safety Priority boxes.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | cover | ||
| Inside Front Cover | cover | ||
| Medical Surgical Nursing: Patient-Centered Collaborative Care | i | ||
| Copyright | iii | ||
| Preface | iv | ||
| Acknowledgments | vi | ||
| Part One: Concepts of Medical-Surgical Nursing | 1 | ||
| Cancer Pathophysiology | 1 | ||
| Overview | 1 | ||
| Carcinogenesis/oncogenesis | 2 | ||
| Cancer etiology and genetic risk | 3 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 5 | ||
| Cancer Treatment Issues | 5 | ||
| Cancer surgery | 6 | ||
| Overview | 6 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 6 | ||
| Radiation therapy | 7 | ||
| Overview | 7 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 8 | ||
| Chemotherapy | 9 | ||
| Overview | 9 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 11 | ||
| Hormonal manipulation | 14 | ||
| Photodynamic therapy | 15 | ||
| Overview | 15 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 15 | ||
| Immunotherapy: biological response modifiers | 16 | ||
| Overview | 16 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 17 | ||
| Targeted therapy | 17 | ||
| Oncologic emergencies | 18 | ||
| End-of-Life Care | 22 | ||
| Overview | 22 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 23 | ||
| Assessment | 23 | ||
| Interventions | 26 | ||
| Inflammation and Immunity | 30 | ||
| Overview | 30 | ||
| Organization of the immune system | 31 | ||
| Inflammation | 33 | ||
| Sequence of inflammatory responses | 34 | ||
| Consequences of inflammation | 35 | ||
| Immunity | 35 | ||
| Antibody-mediated immunity | 35 | ||
| Acquiring antibody-mediated immunity | 37 | ||
| Cell-mediated immunity | 38 | ||
| Infection | 39 | ||
| Overview | 39 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 42 | ||
| Assessment | 42 | ||
| Planning and Implementation | 44 | ||
| Community-Based Care | 45 | ||
| Pain | 46 | ||
| Overview | 46 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 48 | ||
| Assessment | 48 | ||
| Interventions | 49 | ||
| Nonsurgical Management | 49 | ||
| Community-Based Care | 54 | ||
| Perioperative Care | 55 | ||
| Preoperative issues | 55 | ||
| Overview | 55 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 56 | ||
| Assessment | 56 | ||
| Planning and Implementation | 57 | ||
| Final Preoperative Preparation | 60 | ||
| Intraoperative issues | 61 | ||
| Overview | 61 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 64 | ||
| Assessment | 64 | ||
| Planning and Implementation | 65 | ||
| Postoperative issues | 66 | ||
| Overview | 66 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 67 | ||
| Assessment | 67 | ||
| Planning and Implementation | 70 | ||
| Nonsurgical Skin Management | 71 | ||
| Surgical Management | 71 | ||
| Management of Surgical Pain | 72 | ||
| Prevent Hypoxemia | 73 | ||
| Community-Based Care | 73 | ||
| Substance Abuse | 74 | ||
| Overview | 74 | ||
| Types of dependencies | 75 | ||
| alcohol | 75 | ||
| Patient-Centered Collaborative Care | 75 | ||
| Assessment | 75 | ||
| Interventions | 76 | ||
| Nicotine | 77 | ||
| Patient-Centered Collaborative Care | 77 | ||
| Stimulants | 78 | ||
| Hallucinogens and related compounds | 79 | ||
| Depressants | 81 | ||
| Opioids | 83 | ||
| Inhalant abuse | 84 | ||
| Steroids | 84 | ||
| Part Two: Diseases and Disorders | 87 | ||
| Abscess, anorectal | 87 | ||
| Abscess, brain | 87 | ||
| Overview | 87 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 88 | ||
| Abscess, Hepatic | 88 | ||
| Abscess, lung | 89 | ||
| Abscess, Pancreatic | 89 | ||
| Abscess, peritonsillar | 90 | ||
| Abscess, Renal | 90 | ||
| Acidosis, Metabolic | 91 | ||
| Overview | 91 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 91 | ||
| Assessment | 91 | ||
| Interventions | 92 | ||
| Acidosis, Respiratory | 92 | ||
| Overview | 92 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 93 | ||
| Assessment | 93 | ||
| Interventions | 94 | ||
| Acute coronary syndromes | 95 | ||
| Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome | 95 | ||
| Overview | 95 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 96 | ||
| Assessment | 96 | ||
| Interventions | 97 | ||
| Adrenal Insufficiency (Adrenal Hypofunction) | 98 | ||
| Overview | 98 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 98 | ||
| Assessment | 98 | ||
| Interventions | 99 | ||
| Alkalosis, Metabolic | 100 | ||
| Overview | 100 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 100 | ||
| Assessment | 100 | ||
| Interventions | 101 | ||
| Alkalosis, Respiratory | 101 | ||
| Overview | 101 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 102 | ||
| Assessment | 102 | ||
| Interventions | 102 | ||
| Allergy, latex | 103 | ||
| Amputation | 103 | ||
| Overview | 103 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 105 | ||
| Assessment | 105 | ||
| Interventions | 106 | ||
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) | 109 | ||
| Anal Fissure | 109 | ||
| Anal Fistula | 109 | ||
| Anaphylaxis | 110 | ||
| Overview | 110 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 110 | ||
| Assessment | 110 | ||
| Interventions | 111 | ||
| Anemia | 112 | ||
| Overview | 112 | ||
| Assessment | 113 | ||
| Interventions | 114 | ||
| Aortic Aneurysm | 115 | ||
| Overview | 115 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 115 | ||
| Assessment | 115 | ||
| Planning and Implementation | 116 | ||
| Nonsurgical Management | 116 | ||
| Surgical Management | 116 | ||
| Community-Based Care | 118 | ||
| Appendicitis | 118 | ||
| Overview | 118 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 119 | ||
| Assessment | 119 | ||
| Planning and Implementation | 119 | ||
| Arteriosclerosis and Atherosclerosis | 120 | ||
| Overview | 120 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 121 | ||
| Assessment | 121 | ||
| Interventions | 121 | ||
| Arthritis, Rheumatoid | 121 | ||
| Overview | 121 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 122 | ||
| Assessment | 122 | ||
| Interventions | 124 | ||
| Asthma | 127 | ||
| Overview | 127 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 128 | ||
| Assessment | 128 | ||
| Interventions | 129 | ||
| Bedbugs | 132 | ||
| Blindness | 132 | ||
| Bone marrow transplantation (hematopoietic stem cell transplantation) | 133 | ||
| Overview | 133 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 134 | ||
| Breast Condition, Fibrocystic | 137 | ||
| Overview | 137 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 138 | ||
| Interventions | 138 | ||
| Burns | 138 | ||
| Overview | 138 | ||
| Resuscitation phase | 141 | ||
| Patient-centered collaborative care | 142 | ||
| Assessment | 142 | ||
| Planning and Implementation | 144 | ||
| Inadequate oxygenation | 144 | ||
| Appendix One: Guide to Head-to-Toe Physical Assessment of Adults | 671 | ||
| Appendix Ten: CommunicationQuick Referencefor Spanish-Speaking Patients | 747 | ||
| The Body El Cuerpo (ehl koo-EHR-poh) | 747 | ||
| Appendix Two: Terminology Associated with Fluid and Electrolyte Balance | 677 | ||
| Appendix Three: Laboratory Values | 681 | ||
| Appendix Four: Interventions for CommonEnvironmental Emergencies | 691 | ||
| Appendix Five:Chemical and BiologicalAgents of Terrorism | 703 | ||
| Appendix Six: Discharge Planning | 711 | ||
| Appendix Seven: Electrocardiographic Complexes, Segments, Intervals | 713 | ||
| Appendix Eight: The Patient Requiring Intubation and Ventilation | 733 | ||
| Appendix Nine: The Patient Requiring Chest Tubes | 743 | ||
| Overview | 743 | ||
| Patient-Centered Collaborative Care | 744 | ||
| Appendix Ten: Communication Quick Reference for Spanish-Speaking Patients | 747 | ||
| The Body • EL CUERPO (ehl koo-EHR-poh) | 747 | ||
| Common Terms for Body Parts | 748 | ||
| More Parts of the Body | 749 | ||
| Organs | 749 | ||
| Essential Phrases | 750 | ||
| Description of Pain | 750 | ||
| Preliminary Examination | 751 | ||
| Obtaining a Blood Sample | 752 | ||
| Obtaining Blood from a Finger Stick | 752 | ||
| Obtaining a Urine Sample | 752 | ||
| Obtaining a Stool Specimen | 753 | ||
| Obtaining a Sputum Specimen | 753 | ||
| Orders | 753 | ||
| Description of Tubes | 754 | ||
| Index | 755 | ||
| Notes | 818 | ||
| Inside Back Cover | 1 |