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• Identifies and discusses all levels of nursing management, including Health Promotion, Acute Intervention, and Ambulatory and Home Care, to prepare the nurse to effectively intervene at various stages of illness.
• Online podcasts feature audio key points summaries for each chapter highlighting important information.
• Extensive gerontologic content discusses age-related changes for each body system and alerts the nurse to differences often encountered in older patients.
• Attractive four-color design and over 1,400 full-color illustrations enhance learning by presenting disease processes and related anatomy and physiology more clearly.
• About 55 thoroughly updated, comprehensive nursing care plans incorporate current NANDA diagnoses, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, interventions with rationales, evaluation criteria, and more.

• New chapters on Health Disparities, Stress and Stress Management, Infection and HIV, and Nursing Management: Obesity provide a more comprehensive look at the world of medical-surgical nursing.
• Electronic Resource Summary at chapter openers alert students to additional electronic resources available on companion CD and Evolve.
• Gender Differences boxes summarize how women and men are affected differently by medical conditions.
• Drug Alert boxes highlight important considerations applicable to key drugs.
• A glossary of key terms and definitions contains definitions and page references.
• NCLEX examination style review questions in each chapter include a focus on prioritization of patient care.
• All nursing care plans now incorporate NIC and NOC.
  Companion CD:
  
• More than 50 interactive case studies with realistic, 3-D animations to help you visualize disease processes from the inside out
  
• A unique Stress-Busting Kit for Nursing Students with strategies for managing your (and your patients') stress
  
• A collection of Multimedia Supplements with audio and video clips, plus additional animations
  
• 375 NCLEX® examination-style review questions

Average Customer Rating:

Great Medsurg Book	Customer Rating:
I am giving this book four stars only because the pages are thin and the material is somewhat boring to read. I heard from most people that Iggy is better. Anyway, Lewis is a very good book but it is dry and blah. Also whenever I highlight the pages, the highlighter would bleed through. I paid almost a $100 for this but it looked cheaply made.

Med Surge Nursing Review	Customer Rating:
I have no problems with this book. It was a must have because it was the book required for my nursing class.

Very helpful resource

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I utilize this book more than any other textbook required for my program. It is a great resource for careplanning, understanding the ramifications of procedures, and supplemental reading for particularly challenging subjects. As a nursing student in a baccalaureate program, I am inundated with complex and intricate explanations for disease processes. When I need a straight forward, simple answer, this is where I go. A great starting point!

wonderful!	Customer Rating:
The book and seller are both amazing. Shipped in reasonable time and got here rather quickly. Condition of book was perfect, no compliants at all. Thank you.

Good book for nursing school	Customer Rating:
Great book for nursing school. Amazon kept me posted on shipping dates & delivery dates. No problems, recieved the item in a timely manner.