<p>Using a unique collaborative care approach to adult health nursing, <b>Medical-Surgical Nursing: Patient-Centered Collaborative Care, 8th Edition</b> covers the essential knowledge you need to succeed at the RN level of practice. Easy-to-read content includes evidence-based treatment guidelines, an enhanced focus on QSEN competencies, and an emphasis on developing clinical judgment skills. This edition continues the book''s trendsetting tradition with increased LGBTQ content and a new <i>Care of Transgender Patients</i> chapter. Written by nursing education experts Donna Ignatavicius and M. Linda Workman, this bestselling text also features NCLEX® Exam-style challenge questions to prepare you for success on the NCLEX Exam. Cutting-edge coverage of the latest trends in nursing practice and nursing education prepares you not just for today''s nursing practice but also for tomorrow''s.</p> <br /> <br /> <ul> <li><b>UNIQUE! Collaborative care approach</b> organizes all medical, surgical, nursing, and other interventions within the framework of the nursing process, mirroring the nurse''s role in the coordination/management of care in the real world of medical-surgical nursing.</li> <li><b>UNIQUE! A focus on nursing concepts relates concepts learned in Nursing Fundamentals with the disorders you will study in Medical-Surgical Nursing.</b></li> <li>Easy to read, direct-address writing style makes this one of the most readable medical-surgical nursing textbooks available.</li> <li><b>UNIQUE! A focus on QSEN</b> emphasizes patient safety and evidence-based practice with <i>Nursing Safety Priority</i> boxes including <i>Drug Alerts, Critical Rescues,</i> and <i>Action Alerts</i>.</li> <li><b>UNIQUE! Emphasis on clinical judgment</b> teaches you to develop skills in clinical reasoning and clinical decision-making when applying concepts to clinical situations, with <i>Clinical Judgment Challenge</i> questions throughout the chapters.</li> <li><b>An e</b><b>mphasis on prioritization</b> stresses the most important patient problems and nursing interventions, with patient problems presented in a single <i>prioritized</i> list of nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems. </li> <li><b>UNIQUE! NCLEX preparation tools</b> include chapter-opening <i>Learning Outcomes</i> and chapter-ending <i>Get Ready for the NCLEX Examination!</i> sections organized by NCLEX® Client Needs Categories, plus <i>NCLEX Examination Challenge</i> questions, with an answer key in the back of the book and on the Evolve companion website.</li> <li><b>Practical learning aids</b> include <i>NCLEX Examination Challenges, Clinical Judgment Challenges, Best Practice for Patient Safety & Quality Care</i> charts, common examples of drug therapy, concept maps, laboratory profiles, and more.</li> <li><b>A clear alignment with the language of clinical practice</b> reflects the real world of nursing practice with NANDA diagnostic labels where they make sense, and non-NANDA diagnostic labels when these are more common descriptions of patient problems. </li> <li><b>Student Resources on an Evolve companion website</b> help you prepare for class, clinicals, or lab with video and audio clips, animations, case studies, a concept map creator, NCLEX exam-style review questions, and more. </li> <li><b>UNIQUE! Concentration on essential knowledge for the RN level of medical-surgical nursing practice</b> focuses your attention on need-to-know content to pass the NCLEX Examination and practice safety as a beginning nurse.</li> </ul> <br /> <br /> <ul> <li><b>NEW!</b> <b>Enhanced focus on QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses) competencies</b> includes new icons identifying QSEN competency material and new <i>Quality Improvement</i> boxes describing projects that made a dramatic difference in patient outcomes. </li> <li><b>UPDATED learning features</b> include an expanded emphasis on developing clinical judgment skills; on prioritization, delegation, and supervision skills; on long-term care issues; and on preparation for the NCLEX® Examination and consistency with the 2013 NCLEX-RN® Test Plan<b>. </b></li> <li><b>NEW!</b> <b>UNIQUE! <i>Care of Transgender Patients</i> chapter</b> discusses the unique health care needs and issues specific to the transgender community.</li> <li><b>Improved delineation of NANDA-I nursing diagnoses</b> clearly differentiate NANDA diagnoses from collaborative problems<b>.</b></li> <li><b>NEW photos and drawings</b> show patient care skills as well as the latest in nursing education and practice.</li> </ul>