A painful way to master medical-surgical care
Need to learn the complexity of medical-surgical nursing but find yourself looking for some anesthesia after perusing thick textbooks? Here's your medicine! This easy-to-follow guide provides materials with surgical precision.
Medical-Surgical Nursing Demystified features a full chapter to each system - cardiovascular, respiratory, immune, hematologic, nervous, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, endocrine, genitourinary, and integumentary. You will find a description of how the system functions, signs and symptoms of diseases and conditions, diagnostic tests, and treatment options. Perioperative preparation and pain management are also covered. Filled with key terms to help you to remember important concepts, complete with quizzes and end-of-chapter NCLEX-style to test your knowledge, this book will teach you the basics of medical-surgical nursing in a very short time.
This fast and easy guide offers:
Learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter
Quiz NCLEX-style at the end of each chapter to reinforce learning and pinpoint weaknesses
Coverage of diagnostic tests and treatment options
A final exam at the end of the book
Time-saving approach performed better on exam or at work
Simple enough for beginners, yet challenging enough for advanced students, the Medical-Surgical Nursing Demystified for shortcuts to many essential nursing topic.
author
Mary Digiulio (Oradell, NJ) is a nurse practitioner who has worked as a medical-surgical nurse for many years. He is a member of the faculty of nursing at St. Peter's College in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he is program coordinator of the college's nurse practitioner. Mary has taught medical-surgical nursing for eight years and teaches NCLEX review courses for future nurses and practical nurses License. She holds BSN and MSN from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Jim Keogh (Ridgefield, NJ), formerly on the faculty of Columbia University and is currently on the faculty of the University of New York and St. Peter's College. He is co-author of Microbiology Demystified and Pharmacology Demystified, and several books Demystified.