Clinical Companion to Medical-Surgical Nursing

This portable book condenses the essential, need-to-know information from the Ignatavicius & Workman text into a practical A-Z reference for clinical days. The CLINICAL COMPANION formerly entitled "Pocket Companion" has been thoroughly revised by an author team with a wealth of experience in walking students through clinicals. Its newly streamlined format is easier than ever to read and enables readers to find essential information in seconds. The Clinical Companion now incorporates the very latest, 2001-2002 NANDA nursing diagnoses and includes both the complete 2001-2002 NANDA list and the Communication Quick Reference for Spanish-Speaking Clients. It's an essential companion for clinicals.

· Concise coverage of every major disease and disorder from the Ignatavicius & Workman text condensed into a portable reference for clinical days
· Jointly authored by textbook author and nationally recognized conference speaker Donna Ignatavicius and by Kathy Hausman, who actively teaches in clinical the area, knows what staff nurses needs to know about patientsand understands first-hand what students are being asked to know for clinicals
· Organized into two units -- Special Nursing Concerns (Part I) and Diseases and Disorders (Part II)
· Part I covers such special nursing concerns as nursing care of the client experiencing loss, nursing care of the dying client, preoperative nursing care, rehabilitation, and more
· Part II presents concise coverage of 283 major conditions (approximately 84 more than the Brunner and Suddarth handbook) in A-Z order to help students and nurses entering practice find essential information in seconds
· Minor and less common disorders receive focused coverage of need-to-know information