Authoritative yet easy to follow, this comprehensive text guides 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.

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- essential self-care, prevention, and health promotion information Nursing assessments

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- emergent conditions Psychiatric Nursing

- mental health problemsMedical-surgical nursing

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