This colorful book for practicing nurses and nursing students provides a unique approach to learning important clinical concepts and techniques.
The book presents information in a remarkably clear and easy-to-understand fashion, using abundant illustrations to demonstrate hands-on treatments and explain disease pathophysiology. Fully visual text lets the nurse read less and understand more, improving her skills and gaining confidence as a health professional through pictures.
* NEW: Addition of abdominal pressure monitoring skill
* NEW: Addition of deep vein thrombosis, superficial vein thrombosis, and peripheral arterial disease
* NEW: Peripheral vascular interventions such as aortic aneurysm resection, arterial bypass graft, aortic endovascualr stent graft, embolectomy, and vena caval filters
* Hundreds of color illustrations, photographs, wave forms, diagrams, and more creative visuals
* Concise, step-by-step instructions to help build nurse's confidence and alleviate fear of hands-on treatments
* Disease pathophysiology depicted clearly
* Visual presentation of topics, to make it simple to learn complicated techniques
* "Lesson Plans" icon signals important information to teach the patient
* "Picturing Patho" icon points to anatomical illustrations demonstrating what happens when a disease occcurs.
* "Hands On" icon shows the nurse how to perform nursing procedures and techniques and administer treatments.
Lippincott's Visual Nursing: A Guide to Diseases, Skills, and Treatments is included in the following Collections:
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