(10 reviews) Author: ISBN : 9780781789400 New from $27.98 Format: PDFNurse's Quick Check: Diseases, Second Edition presents vital information on over 450 diseases in an easy-to-scan format using bulleted lists, charts, and illustrations. Each disease is covered on a two-page spread that includes pathophysiology, causes, risk factors, complications, assessment, treatment, nursing interventions, outcomes, and patient education. Life-Threatening Disorder banners indicate the most serious diseases. Alert icons highlight crucial patient safety information.
This edition covers fifteen new diseases, includes a newly updated rare disease appendix, has more illustrations, includes prevention guidelines sidebars, and has Special Populations icons indicating clinical tips for pediatric, geriatric, and other patients. Enhanced treatment sections in each entry include names of individual medications.
- Series: Nurse's Quick Check
- Paperback: 960 pages
- Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Second edition (April 3, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0781789400
- ISBN-13: 978-0781789400
- Product Dimensions: 1.6 x 7 x 10 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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I am an older RN student changing careers into nursing. Before class and clinicals I didnt have much exposure to hospitals so it takes me a little longer to learn and get acquainted with the material and where to look for it. In clinicals this book is helpful in giving me an overview that includes a description of the disease/diagnosis, the pathophysiology, causes, Risk factors (which you can use to help you pick a risk for NANDA), Incidence which tells you what part of the body can have affects or perhaps if it is more in men or women, a common characteristics section (i.e. tenderness, pain, erythema, warmth, edema...) complications (i.e. sepsis, DVT, progressions of cellulitis...), what to assess for (i.e. fever, chills, warmth and tenderness of the skin...) physical findings, test results i.e. what lab results to look for (helpful when doing your care plans later and you are relating your labs to your patient), and treatments with a medication section that lists the classes of drugs most commonly used, and surgery. There is also a Nursing Considerations section with a goal or "key outcomes" section (pt goals), a nursing interventions section (general more like nonpharmacologic like raising HOB 30 degrees), a "monitoring" section with items to monitor like pain, vitals, and edema. And lastly, a pt teaching section that has discharge planning listed (these 4 sections are really helpful to follow when choosing your interventions for your care plan as they really keep you on track). As one of the reviews stated this is all on a 2 page format that looks very similar to their davis drug book layout, but with all of it laid out in bulleted lists. Other students were ordering their own after they saw mine. The soft cover is laminated too which makes it easy to wipe off.
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