Medical-Surgical Nursing

<p>Learn the clinical judgment skills you need to succeed on the Next-Generation NCLEX^® Exam and in medical-surgical nursing practice with Iggy’s trendsetting, concept-based approach! Ignatavicius’s <b>Medical-Surgical Nursing, 11th Edition </b>provides a solid foundation<b> </b>in<b> </b>nursing care that is<b> </b>patient-centered, evidence-based, and collaborative.</p><ul><li><b>UNIQUE! Unparalleled focus on clinical judgment and systems thinking</b> ensures alignment with the NCSBN <i>Clinical Judgment Measurement Model</i> and emphasizes the six cognitive skills that you’ll need in order to develop effective clinical judgment, to succeed when taking the Next-Generation NCLEX^® Exam (NGN), and to enter clinical practice as a safe, competent, compassionate generalist nurse.</li><li><b>UNIQUE! Data-driven Concept and Exemplar selections</b> provide a strong foundation in professional nursing concepts and health and illness concepts, with application in each chapter.</li><li><b>UNIQUE! Exceptional emphasis on NGN preparation</b> includes chapter-opening <i>Learning Outcomes</i> and chapter-ending <i>Get Ready for the Next-Generation NCLEX Examination!</i> sections, plus <i>NCLEX Examination Challenge</i> questions and <i>Mastery </i>and <i>NGN Questions</i>, with an answer key including rationales on the Evolve website.</li><li><b>Consistent use of interprofessional terminology</b> promotes interprofessional collaboration through the use of a common healthcare language, instead of using nursing-specific diagnostic language.</li><li><b>Emphasis on patient safety</b> highlights safety and evidence-based practice with <i>Nursing Safety Priority</i> boxes, as well as <i>Drug Alert, Critical Rescue, </i>and<i> Action Alert</i> boxes.</li><li><b>Focus on care coordination and transition management </b>addresses the continuity of care between acute care and community-based care.</li><li><b>Direct, easy-to-read writing style</b> features concise sentences and straightforward vocabulary, making this one of the most readable medical-surgical nursing textbooks available.</li><li><b>Sherpath <i>(sold separately)</i> for Ignatavicius et al. <i>Medical-Surgical Nursing</i>, 11th Edition</b> provides an interactive, adaptive learning experience!</li></ul><ul><li><b>NEW! </b><b>Updated content throughout</b> reflects the most current, evidence-based clinical practice in medical-surgical nursing, including the latest national and international guidelines.</li><li><b>NEW and </b><b>UNIQUE! Key components of AACN’s 2021 <i>Essentials</i></b> are integrated throughout, including the four “spheres” of nursing care: health promotion/disease prevention, chronic disease care, regenerative or restorative care, and hospice/palliative/supportive care.</li><li><b>NEW! </b><b>One unfolding case for the Next-Generation NCLEX^® Exam (NGN) in each <i>Concepts of Care</i> chapter</b> replaces the previous open-ended <i>Clinical Judgment Challenge</i> questions, and each includes multiple questions for the NGN, or 2-3 Bowtie or Trend questions for the NGN.</li><li><b>NEW! </b><b>Enhanced emphasis on need-to-know content with streamlined A&P and pathophysiology content</b> provides a solid foundation for beginning nurse generalists, including the most important patient problems for each health condition and an emphasis on what is most relevant to nursing care.</li><li><b>NEW</b><b> and</b> <b>UNIQUE! Iggy’s approach to care</b> views medical and nursing management through the lens of the nursing process and the six cognitive skills of the NCSBN <i>Clinical Judgment Measurement Model</i>, and aligns with the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) <i>Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice</i>.</li><li><b>NEW! </b><b>Case Studies for the NGN on the Evolve website</b> are updated from the previous open-ended question style to questions for the NGN.</li><li><b>NEW and </b><b>UNIQUE! <i>Key Points </i>in<i> Concepts of Care</i> chapters </b>summarize essential information for each of the nursing spheres with a four-quadrant matrix corresponding to the four spheres of care from the 2021 AACN <i>Essentials</i>.</li><li><b>NEW! <i>Essential Points for Assessment</i></b> are included at the end of chapters to emphasize critical information in alignment with the 2021 <i>AACN Essentials</i>.</li><li><b>NEW and </b><b>UNIQUE! The six domains recommended for inclusion in nursing education in the 2020-2030 <i>Future of Nursing Report</i></b> are incorporated into the textbook, including new <i>Nurse Well-Being</i> boxes, covering the domains of health equity and health care equity, social determinants of health, ethics, environmental health, disaster/public health emergencies, and nurse well-being.</li><li><b>NEW! </b><b>Coverage of COVID-19</b> is expanded into an Exemplar disorder, highlighting the multifaceted aspects of care including critical care, and COVID-19 content is also interwoven into other body systems chapters.</li><li><b>NEW! Enhanced </b><b>index</b> includes all figures, tables, and special boxes, as well as the following types of content: <ul><li>Legal/ethical issues (including boxes)</li><li>Health equity (including boxes)</li><li>Veteran health (including boxes)</li><li>Older adult health (including boxes)</li><li>Health promotion/disease prevention</li><li>Critical care topics</li><li>Trauma topics</li><li>Physical disability topics</li><li>Chronic disease topics</li><li>Interprofessional collaboration topics (including IPEC boxes)</li><li>Healthcare technologies</li><li>Evidence-based practice (including boxes)</li><li>Quality improvement/systems thinking (including boxes)</li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><b>NEW! <i>Ethical/Legal Considerations</i> boxes</b><b> are changed to <i>Legal/Ethical Considerations</i> boxes</b> and increased in number throughout the book to reflect the growing challenges of clinical practice.</li><li><b>NEW! </b><b>Sequential numbering systems </b>(one for boxes, one for tables) are used for special boxes and <i>Drug Therapy </i>and<i> Lab Profile</i> tables throughout each chapter for quicker and more concise referencing.</li></ul>