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The thoroughly updated Lippincott Review for Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification, 7th Edition, offers the most current content found on the Certified Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse (CMSRN) exam, and plenty of practice questions. This popular study guide covers the full range of exam content -- from disorders, signs and symptoms, tests, and assessments to treatments and interventions. Whether you are a new or experienced nurse, this comprehensive review offers all the information -- and opportunities to practice -- that you need to pass the test.   The core content of this new edition has been attentively revised to reflect the best available practices that influence medical–surgical nursing. It includes review topics on the foundations of nursing, legal and ethical aspects of nursing, principles of medical–surgical nursing and wound care, and disruptions in homeostasis. It also reviews the different body systems and associated disea

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Don’t stress over anatomy and physiology—mastering basic terms and concepts is a breeze with Anatomy and Physiology Made Incredibly Easy, 6th Edition. This clever, colorful, clearly written guide makes fundamental anatomy and physiology structures and functions approachable while delivering fun, friendly guidance to help you ensure success throughout your nursing career. Filled with vibrant illustrations and labeled diagrams, this quick-reference text demonstrates how every major structure in the body interacts with the body’s systems and guides you through genetics, nutrition, reproduction, and more. Whether you’re a nursing student studying for the NCLEX®, a practicing nurse pursuing fast answers, or a healthcare practitioner or fitness professional in need of an A&P refresher, this easy-to-read, up-to-date 6th Edition makes essential information more accessible than ever. New to this edition: UPDATED! Revised art—including illustrations from Anatomy and Physiology Made Incredibly Visual, 2nd Edition—brings clinical material to life in vivid detail. UPDATED! Labeling ensures accurate identification and understanding of key structures. UPDATED! End-of-chapter quizzes familiarize you with the current NCLEX test plan. UPDATED! References reflect the latest and most trusted clinical perspectives.

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Fluids & Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy!®, 8th Edition, is your quick-reference guide to success in understanding fluids and electrolytes at every stage of your nursing career—in class, on the unit, as you prepare for the NCLEX®, and whenever you need a refresher. This irreplaceable resource is written in the enjoyable Incredibly Easy® style, making must-have information approachable and entertaining while clarifying real-world applications. Step-by-step directions boost your confidence in balancing fluids and electrolytes, understanding fluid imbalances and the disorders that cause them, treating imbalances, and more. Helpful tips throughout reinforce key concepts, provide important care reminders, and strengthen your problem-solving and patient teaching capabilities. This 8th Edition is thoroughly updated with the latest insights and practices to ready you for success in today’s nursing practice and beyond. FEATURES Updated content throughout keeps you current with the latest fluid and electrolyte nursing practices, common fluid imbalances and disorders you’ll encounter in practice, the effect of COVID-19 on fluid and electrolyte balances, and more. Colorful drawings, charts, and diagrams clarify important content in vivid detail. Memory Jogger reminders enhance your recall and understanding of difficult concepts. CAUTION! alerts help you quickly recognize dangerous signs and symptoms. It’s Not Working sections highlight alternative interventions to address unexpected patient outcomes. Chart Smart lists familiarize you with critical documentation elements and help you avoid legal trouble. Teaching Points offer patient-teaching tips you can use to help patients prevent recurrence of problems. Ages and Stages alert you to common fluid and electrolyte issues in young patients and older adults. That’s a Wrap! summaries reinforce key chapter takeaways at a glance.

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Fluids & Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy!®, 8th Edition, is your quick-reference guide to success in understanding fluids and electrolytes at every stage of your nursing career—in class, on the unit, as you prepare for the NCLEX®, and whenever you need a refresher. This irreplaceable resource is written in the enjoyable Incredibly Easy® style, making must-have information approachable and entertaining while clarifying real-world applications. Step-by-step directions boost your confidence in balancing fluids and electrolytes, understanding fluid imbalances and the disorders that cause them, treating imbalances, and more. Helpful tips throughout reinforce key concepts, provide important care reminders, and strengthen your problem-solving and patient teaching capabilities. This 8th Edition is thoroughly updated with the latest insights and practices to ready you for success in today’s nursing practice and beyond. FEATURES Updated content throughout keeps you current with the latest fluid and electrolyte nursing practices, common fluid imbalances and disorders you’ll encounter in practice, the effect of COVID-19 on fluid and electrolyte balances, and more. Colorful drawings, charts, and diagrams clarify important content in vivid detail. Memory Jogger reminders enhance your recall and understanding of difficult concepts. CAUTION! alerts help you quickly recognize dangerous signs and symptoms. It’s Not Working sections highlight alternative interventions to address unexpected patient outcomes. Chart Smart lists familiarize you with critical documentation elements and help you avoid legal trouble. Teaching Points offer patient-teaching tips you can use to help patients prevent recurrence of problems. Ages and Stages alert you to common fluid and electrolyte issues in young patients and older adults. That’s a Wrap! summaries reinforce key chapter takeaways at a glance.

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Stressed and confused about pathophysiology? Time to develop your mastery: The newly updated Professional Guide to Pathophysiology, 4th Edition, is the go-to comprehensive guide that explains more than 400 disorders across all body systems — from causes, symptoms and diagnosis to treatment and special considerations. The ideal on-the-unit reference, certification exam review or backup to classroom materials, this is the expert-at-your-side support that both new and experienced nurses, and students at all levels of nursing study, cannot do without.Empower your pathophysiology knowledge with this foundational, irreplaceable reference: NEW content on both normal physiology and disease states Easy-to-follow, consistent template that makes finding vital information quick and easy — combines the best features of a disease reference with the best features of a full-color atlas Small keep-it-handy size that is ideal for on-the-spot reference Illustrations, algorithms, tables and text boxes such as Closer Look images and Prevention, Disease Block and Multisystem Disorder icons that clarify pathophysiological processes and anatomy, demonstrating difficult concepts Offers current top-level findings on: Foundational knowledge — normal cellular physiology, followed by the pathologic deviations of disease Cancer, infection, and fluid and electrolytes Genetics — cellular/DNA components and functions, as well as tests, treatments, and care considerations for genetic abnormalities Diseases and disorders particular to each body system — chapters organized by body system Less common disorders Disease entries that offer the pathophysiologic foundations and rationale behind focused assessments, offering causes, signs and symptoms, complications, diagnostic tests, treatment, and special considerations Chapter features that emphasize important concepts and differences among disorders and among patient populations, for accurate assessments and treatments: Genetic Link, Age Alert, Clinical Alert, Life-Threatening Disorder and Confirming Diagnosis Expert guidance and practical insights on providing e ffective care for both common and less common disorders Excellent reference for studies and research in pathology, pathophysiology, and physiology — helpful for creating nursing care plans Concise, detailed explanations of all major diseases — reinforces and clarifies classroom teachings Easy-to-read, easy-to-retain information that translates easily from student text to must-have professional reference, offering students and new nurses the self-assurance to offer high-level care About the Clinical Editor Laura M. Willis, DNP, APRN-CNP, CMSRN, is a Family Nurse Practitioner at Mercy Health Physicians in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Get ready to provide efficient, informed patient care, with the newly updated Professional Guide to Diseases , 11th Edition . This comprehensive guide offers the causes, signs and symptoms for more than 600 disorders, with expert nursing direction on tests, assessments, diagnosis, treatments, and special considerations.Whether you are a student preparing for board certification or are a new or experienced nurse, this is vital support for understanding correct treatment of the common conditions seen almost daily. Build up your ground-floor knowledge of a wide range of common disorders and diseases: NEW full-color figures and illustrations Boxed text on pathophysiology and prevention that helps reinforce difficult concepts Icons that emphasize important concepts: Elderly Tip, Pediatric Tip, Clinical Alert, Life-Threatening Disorder, and Confirming Diagnosis Consistent template that makes information quick and easy to find yet comprehensive enough to offer complete coverage of a group of similar diseases Expert guidance that leads you to targeted, cost-effective testing Chapters offer a thorough grounding in:Disorders found in individual body systems – Cardiovascular; respiratory; neurologic; gastrointestinal; hepatobiliary; musculoskeletal; renal and urologic; immune; hematologic; metabolic and nutritional; endocrine; eye; ear, nose and throat; skin; genetic; obstetric and gynecologic; sexual; and psychiatric Malignant neoplasms – Head, neck and spine; thorax; abdomen and pelvis; male and female genitalia; bone, skin and soft tissue; blood and lymph Infection – Gram-positive cocci, gram-negative cocci, gram-positive bacilli, gram-negative bacilli, spirochetes and mycobacteria, mycoses, respiratory viruses, rash-producing viruses, enteroviruses, arbovirus, miscellaneous viruses, rickettsia, protozoa, helminths Trauma – Head, neck and spine, thorax, abdomen, extremities, whole body Updated information on rare diseases, potential agents of bioterrorism, and complementary and alternative therapies for specific conditions, with additional coverage for more than 50 life-threatening disorders Detailed guidance on hundreds of commonly seen disorders and diseases in easy-to-read language — ideal for both graduate and undergraduate study Offers new nurses the confidence to function fully while building on-the-unit skills and know-how Small enough size to carry with you as a solid resource — informative, concise and organized for easy reference Your book purchase includes a complimentary download of the enhanced eBook for iOS™, Android™, PC and Mac. Take advantage of these practical features that will improve your eBook experience: The ability to download the eBook on multiple devices at one time — providing a seamless reading experience online or offline Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that allow you to search within this book, or across your entire library of VitalSource eBooks About the Clinical Editor Dr. Laura M. Willis, DNP, APRN-CNP,CMSRN, is a Family Nurse Practitioner at Urbana Family Medicine and Pediatrics in Urbana, Ohio

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Health Assessment Made Incredibly Easy! 4th Edition is illustrated with hundreds of drawings, diagrams, and photos to support easy-to-follow, expert nursing instruction on many of the skills needed for head-to-toe physical assessments of every body system. The step-by-step guidance builds your confidence to perform thorough, accurate health assessments from the minute you start your career.  Key features help you move through the content with confidence: Peak technique illustrates and describes the best ways to perform specific physical examination techniques. Bridging the gap explains cultural variables that may influence the health assessment. Handle with care pinpoints age-related variations in assessment findings. Interpretation station provides sure-fire guidelines for interpreting assessment findings quickly and easily. Memory jogger helps the reader remember

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ACLS Review Made Incredibly Easy!, 4th Edition is packed with easy-to-remember definitions and step-by-step directions on the latest algorithms giving you the confidence you need to pass the ACLS certification exam as well as the knowledge and skills needed to perform advanced cardiac life support. Allow ACLS Review Made Incredibly Easy to guide you through the latest ACLS training and exam preparations with: NEW and updated American Heart Association Guidelines with illustrations NEW and updated cardiovascular pharmacology content – including the action, indication, dosages, and precautions for the major drugs used during ACLS NEW and updated interventions NEW and updated CPR skills with illustrations Explanation of the ACLS course and exam components Devices and procedure skills – including ventilation techniques, endotracheal intubation, and supraglottic devices as well as pacemakers, defibrillators, and more! Identification of which cardiac rhythms may require ACLS treatment Skills required for the first 30 minutes of cardiac emergencies Management of specific rhythms – hypovolemia, hypoxia, acidosis, hypothermia, cardiac tamponade, tension pneumothorax, pulmonary coronary thrombosis, and more Dozens of 4 color diagrams and illustrations that outline the core concepts and skills needed for ACLS certification.

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ACLS Review Made Incredibly Easy!, 4th Edition is packed with easy-to-remember definitions and step-by-step directions on the latest algorithms giving you the confidence you need to pass the ACLS certification exam as well as the knowledge and skills needed to perform advanced cardiac life support. Allow ACLS Review Made Incredibly Easy to guide you through the latest ACLS training and exam preparations with: NEW and updated American Heart Association Guidelines with illustrations NEW and updated cardiovascular pharmacology content – including the action, indication, dosages, and precautions for the major drugs used during ACLS NEW and updated interventions NEW and updated CPR skills with illustrations Explanation of the ACLS course and exam components Devices and procedure skills – including ventilation techniques, endotracheal intubation, and supraglottic devices as well as pacemakers, defibrillators, and more! Identification of which cardiac rhythms may require ACLS treatment Skills required for the first 30 minutes of cardiac emergencies Management of specific rhythms – hypovolemia, hypoxia, acidosis, hypothermia, cardiac tamponade, tension pneumothorax, pulmonary coronary thrombosis, and more Dozens of 4 color diagrams and illustrations that outline the core concepts and skills needed for ACLS certification.

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