Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care; Single Volume (9th Edition)

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The field of medicine and surgery is rapidly advancing, and with it come new expectations for the tasks and responsibilities of medical-surgical nurses. With Ignatavicius, Workman, and Rebar's Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care, 9th Edition, you can be sure that you have all you need to flourish and adjust in today's nursing environment, which is always shifting (ePub). This groundbreaking electronic textbook not only covers all of the essential adult health knowledge, but it also helps strengthen the conceptual thinking, application, and clinical judgment skills that today's surgical nurses need to have in order to stay one step ahead in providing exceptional patient care, regardless of the setting. You may expect to find, throughout the entirety of the ePub eBook, a straightforward, reader-friendly tone, a comprehensive integration of QSEN competencies, a substantial NCLEX® Exam preparation, and a unique collaborative care approach to adult health nursing. This ninth edition incorporates two emerging and complementary trends: the Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice and a more conceptual approach learning and teaching. These are areas that will ground you in how to think like a nurse and how to apply the knowledge you gain from the textbook to clinical practice. The Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice are a set of core competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice. There are a great number of medical-surgical nursing textbooks available; however, there is only one that brings together all of the ideas, knowledge, and on-the-job realities in a way that is coherent and makes perfect sense: “Iggy!”

With Nursing Safety Priority boxes, which include Drug Alerts, Critical Rescues, and Action Alerts, cutting-edge QSEN integration places an emphasis on patient safety and evidence-based practice.

• UNIQUE! When you apply theoretical knowledge to real-world scenarios, developing skills in clinical reasoning and clinical decision-making can be facilitated by placing an emphasis on clinical judgment.
• Strong focus is placed on preparation for the NCLEX Exam, including both “Get Ready for the NCLEX Examination!” and “Learning Outcomes,” which appear at the beginning and end of each chapter, respectively. parts arranged in accordance with the NCLEX Client Needs Categories, in addition to questions pertaining to the NCLEX Examination Challenge, and an answer key located both at the back of the book and on the Evolve companion website.
• Content that is exceptionally easy to read is characterized by a clear language, shorter sentence lengths, and a writing style that is direct and reader-friendly.
• NEW! The new concept overview chapters, chapter-opening concept lists, and a focus on concept exemplars inside diseases chapters are all part of an enhanced emphasis on conceptual learning and teaching that incorporates a strong integration of nursing concepts and exemplars throughout the textbook.
• NEW! The integration of interprofessional collaborative practice elevates the collaborative management approach that is the hallmark of this ebook to a higher level. This is accomplished through the addition of new collaboration-focused Clinical Judgment Challenges, the incorporation of a new Teamwork & Interprofessional Collaboration concept, and the incorporation of interprofessional collaborative practice within TEACH lesson plans in greater depth.
• NEW! Tanner's vocabulary is used inside nursing process headings, NCLEX Examination Challenge questions, and Key Points as part of a deeper integration of Tanner's model of clinical nursing judgment

NEW! A more robust focus on health promotion and community-based treatment is accompanied by revisions and updates to content found throughout the text. These changes are intended to reflect the fact that the majority of adult medical care is no longer delivered through extended stays in high-acuity settings.

• NEW! More consistent; the development of interprofessional terminology for patient concerns encourages interprofessional collaboration by fostering the use of a shared language in the healthcare field.
• NEW! The entirety of the content has been brought up to date to reflect the most recent developments in clinical practice as well as the most recent evidence-based guidelines, in particular national and international treatment guidelines and protocols.
• NEW! Learning outcomes that are now more consistent take into account QSEN and nursing ideas in a manner that is more intentional, consistent, and uniform from chapter to chapter.