Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Clinical Judgment and Collaborative Care, 11th Edition

Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Clinical Judgment and Collaborative Care, 11th Edition

Learn the clinical judgment skills you need to succeed on the Next-Generation NCLEX® Exam and in medical-surgical nursing practice with Iggy’s trendsetting, concept-based approach! From a team of nursing experts led by Donna Ignatavicius, Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Clinical Judgment and Collaborative Care, 11th Edition provides a solid foundationinmedical-surgical nursing care that ispatient-centered, evidence-based, and collaborative. In each chapter, content is organized by the most important concepts of care followed by commonly occurring exemplars for each concept. This perennial bestseller helps you learn to think like a nurse and learn how to apply your knowledge in the classroom, simulation laboratory, and clinical settings.

Unparalleled focus on clinical judgment and systems thinking ensures alignment with the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model and emphasizes the six cognitive skills that you’ll need in order to develop effective clinical judgment, to succeed when taking the Next-Generation NCLEX® Exam (NGN), and to enter clinical practice as a safe, competent, compassionate generalist nurse.

Inside this book, you'll find:

• American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards, 1st Place in Medical-Surgical Nursing, 2024.

• Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Medical/Surgical.

• Data-driven Concept and Exemplar selections provide a strong foundation in professional nursing concepts and health and illness concepts, with application in each chapter.

• Consistent use of interprofessional terminology promotes interprofessional collaboration through the use of a common healthcare language, instead of using nursing-specific diagnostic language.

• Emphasis on patient safety highlights safety and evidence-based practice with Nursing Safety Priority boxes, as well as Drug Alert, Critical Rescue, and Action Alert boxes.

• Focus on care coordination and transition management addresses the continuity of care between acute care and community-based care.

• Direct, easy-to-read writing style features concise sentences and straightforward vocabulary, making this one of the most readable medical-surgical nursing textbooks available.

• Updated content throughout reflects the most current, evidence-based clinical practice in medical-surgical nursing, including the latest national and international guidelines.

Ideal for nursing students, nurse educators, and practicing nurses who need a reliable, up-to-date reference.

Product Details

• Author: Donna D. Ignatavicius

• Publisher: Elsevier

• Edition: 11th

• Format: Hardcover

• Publication Date: September 25, 2023

• Language: English

• Pages: 1712

• Dimensions: 22.4 x 5.99 x 28.19 cm

• ISBN-10: 0323878261

• ISBN-13: 978-0323878265