| Description |
xxvii, 1652 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Health Initiatives and Alternative Modalities. 1. Health Promotion and Disease and Injury Prevention / June M. Thompson. 2. Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Contemporary Nursing Practice / Susan M. Tucker -- Pt. II. Clinical Nursing Practice. 3. Cardiovascular System / Brigid Ide. 4. Respiratory System / Debra A. Hagler and Gayle A. Traver. 5. Neurologic System / Victor G. Campbell. 6. Musculoskeletal System / Leona A. Mourad. 7. Integumentary System / Joyce E. Dains. 8. The Eye / Sarah C. Smith. 9. Ear, Nose, and Throat / Barbara A. Sigler. 10. Gastrointestinal System / Mary G. Hirsch. 11. Endocrine-Metabolic System / Molly Solares, Rubi Agana-Defensor and Cynthia Song-Mayeda / [et al.]. 12. Female Reproductive System / Robert J. O'Malley and Susan M. Tucker. 13. Renal System / Lynn Noland. 14. Genitourinary System / Mikel Gray and Kathleen Calitri Brown. 15. Infectious Diseases / Deanna E. Grimes, Kevin A. Grimes and Carolyn M. Zack. 16. Immunologic System / Christine Miaskowski. 17. Hematolymphatic System / Anne Elizabeth Beicher. 18. Neoplasia / Ann M. O'Mara and Sarah Bernstein. 19. Mental Health / Georgia Griffith Witley and Kim Hart. 20. Mental Health Disorders in the Elderly / Gertrude K. McFarland -- Pt. III. Perioperative Nursing. 21. Perioperative Nursing Care / Marsha A. Miller, Shelley A. Carroll and Sheila Gleeson -- Pt. IV. Diagnostic Studies and Laboratory Values. 22. Care of the Patient Undergoing Diagnostic Studies and Laboratory Tests / Joan LaBarr, James Hill and Nikky Chahon -- Pt. V. Nursing Diagnoses, Outcomes, and Interventions. 23. NANDA Nursing Diagnoses, Outcomes, and Nursing Interventions / Priscilla LeMone, Roxanne W. McDaniel and Peggy L. Payne |
| Summary |
By combining the traditional body system-disease approach with contemporary nursing practice, this unique and practical resource provides practicing nurses and nursing students with comprehensive nursing information for hundreds of diseases, detailed information on diagnostic studies, nursing diagnoses, and related background information on pathophysiology and medical treatments. A new section on health promotion has been added |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1997 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Nursing.
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Nursing Care.
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Nursing Process.
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| Author |
Thompson, June M., 1946-
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| LC no. |
2002511702 |
| ISBN |
0323011950 |
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