Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice, 11th Edition (PDF)

The Comprehensive Lippincott Manual for Nursing Practice

By Sandra M Nettina MSN APRN BC ANP

If you are looking for expert nursing knowledge and practical guidance on patient care, then the fully updated Lippincott Manual for Nursing Practice, 11th Edition, is the book you need. This classic nursing reference is authoritative yet easy to follow, guiding you through the nursing concepts and skills particularly vital for medical-surgical assessment, care, and treatment.

Essential for both in-the-classroom and on-the-unit guidance, this is the expertise that all students, new nurses, and medical-surgical nurses need to grasp essential nursing concepts, care management, and procedures. Discover the insights and data that every nurse needs:

• New and updated features – Nursing, Gerontologic, Drug, and Transitional Care Alerts, evidence-based references, diagnostic methods, and drug treatment throughout the book
• Easy-to-read, well-illustrated outline format – practical, pertinent, and comprehensive content for the busy nurse, including:
• Patient education – essential self-care, prevention, and health promotion information
• Nursing assessments – important signs and symptoms and other clinical data to be on the alert for in all types of conditions
• Body system terminology – how anatomy and physiology are affected by disease in each body system
• Equipment use – utilizing technology for patient monitoring and therapy
• Nursing process and practice – systematic use of the nursing process for assessment, planning, and intervention
• Emergency nursing – emergent conditions
• Psychiatric Nursing – mental health problems
• Medical-surgical nursing – adult physical assessment, IV therapy, perioperative nursing, cancer nursing, and care of the older or disabled adult
• Patient care by body system – functions, problems, disorders, and therapies described for the respiratory, cardiovascular, neurologic and sensory, gastrointestinal, renal, genitourinary, reproductive, metabolic, endocrine, hematologic, immunologic, musculoskeletal, and integumentary systems
• Maternity and neonatal nursing – maternal and fetal health, nursing management during labor and delivery, care of mother and neonate in postpartum period, and complications of childbearing
• Pediatric nursing – pediatric growth and development, physical assessment, primary care, treatment of pediatric disorders of all body systems, and developmental disabilities
• Ebook that includes step-by-step procedure guidelines – guidance on more than 150 procedures, with rationales and direction on what to do next and why

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Product Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ LWW; 11th edition (November 2, 2018)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Digital Format ‏ : ‎ eBook
• Pages ‏ : ‎ 1594
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1496379942
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1496379948

About the Author
Sandra M. Nettina, MSN, ANP-BC, is a Nurse Practitioner and founder and president of Prime Care House Calls, West Friendship, Maryland.