Book Description
A practical guide for quick reference in the clinical setting
Product Description
Putting essential information at your fingertips, this handy guide describes 200 commonly encountered medical-surgical disorders and procedures. Numerous illustrations and summary tables are used to clarify key information. It focuses on the information you need to know, emphasizing the procedures and treatments in which the nurse plays a major role.
- Part 1: Disorders includes the following information for each profile:
- Definition/Description
- Pathophysiology
- Clinical Manifestations
- Complications
- Diagnostic Studies
- Collaborative Care (including drug therapy)
- Nursing Management
- Goals
- Nursing Diagnoses (using current NANDA terminology)
- Nursing Interventions
- Patient Teaching
- Part 2: Treatments and Procedures includes information you need to know about common medical-surgical treatments and procedures such as CPR, tube feeding, and artificial airway management.
- Part 3: Reference Appendix features key reference information commonly used in nursing practice, including laboratory values, commonly used formulas, and Spanish translations of key phrases.
- Patient teaching content is highlighted with a special icon, identifying information that patients and families need to know about the care of various conditions.
- A portable format makes this book easy to carry in the clinical setting.
- Cross-references to Lewis: Medical-Surgical Nursing, 7th Edition make it easy to find background information.
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This was a fantastic book! I call it the “Cliff Notes” version of the textbook. If you’re having trouble with the amount of assigned readings in your textbook, I highly recommend you get this book. My whole class is jealous that I got this book because they had to wait months for their copies.
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companion book
I really like this book it is small and will be easy to carry to clinicals
Excellent for when you need the information and don’t want to read an entire chapter to find it out. I call it the Cliff’s note’s version of the textbook. All major diagnosises are included, their etiologies, assessments, diagnostics, and treatments. Useful in clinical.
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med-surg
excellent product! very pertinent to the duties of a nurse in the medical-surgical setting
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Good clinical companion
This little book holds tons of information that one needs in a clinical setting. You have everything in the palm of your hands.
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The Clinical Companion
This is a really nice little reference book…I keep it with me at work for quick reference. Very helpful,since Nurses have to keep so much information at hand when assessing our…
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companion
I found the Lewis companion guide irreplaceable while studying for an exam or during clinical. Plus small enough to carry in your backpack.
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Good things in small packages.
This book is amazing! As a student nurse, we are required to have our Medsurg book at the clinical site.
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Awesome book!
This book is so helpful. I have the big textbook version but this is so much easier to take with you to clinical or where ever and be able to quickly look something up.
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Helpful
This is good to have with you during clinicals. I am going to purchase the Lewis workbook (studyguide). The clinical advisers have shown us it helps a lot.
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not needed
If this book is not required, don’t bother getting it, I have not used it once since i bought it, seemed like every time I went to look something up in it, it wasn’t in there.
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BUY THIS BOOK
LEWIS IS THE HARDEST BOOK TO READ, BUT THE LEWIS CONPANION IS SO EASY TO READ. JUST LOOK UP THE MEDICAL PROBLEM AND READ EVERYTHING ABOUT IT.