Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking for Collaborative Care (Single Volume) (Hardcover)

by Donna D. Ignatavicius (Editor), M. Linda Workman (Editor)

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Product Description
Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking for Collaborative Care is a comprehensive yet eminently readable undergraduate textbook of medical-surgical/adult health nursing that addresses the very latest trends in nursing care of adults. Revised after just three years, it incorporates both NIC intervention categories and outcome statements that are consistent with NOC outcome indicators, as well as enhanced coverage of complementary and alternative therapies, community-based care, cultural diversity, substance abuse, evidence-based practice, Healthy People 2010 goals, and cost-of-care implications for nursing. Together with a thoroughly revised Critical Thinking Study Guide, an innovative Instructor's Manual, and a groundbreaking new Virtual Clinical Excursions web-based learning experience, the 4th edition of "Iggy" moves to the forefront of nursing education as a fully integrated multimedia instructional package for mediacl-surgical nursing.

About the Author
Donna D. Ignatavicius, MS, RN, Cm, Calvert Memorial Hospital, Prince Frederick, MD; and M. Linda Workman, PhD, RN, FAAN, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1948 pages
• Publisher: W.B. Saunders Company; 4th edition (January 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0721687628
• ISBN-13: 978-0721687629
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.9 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #125,254 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is great!, June 8, 2004

By	Jennifer Nachiondo (Elko, Nevada United States) - See all my reviews

I am also a first year nursing student and the first fundamentals book we used was so useless and hard to read I hated doing my homework. However, this book is so easy to understand and use, especially with the study guide which is also wonderful. I would not trade using any other book for this one. Trust me, you'll really understand what is being talked about.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, August 11, 2005

By	Michael J. Urban - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking for Collaborative Care (2-Volume Set) (Hardcover)

Many nursing books are horrible to read and comprehend - NOT this series of nursing books! Easy to understand charts, lists, description boxes, etc. spells terminology and info for newbies easily and appropriately.

By far the BEST nursing series I have ever seen!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Annoying book, December 3, 2005

By	Will Nance "Conservative Thinker" (Paducah, KY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a nursing student, this book is used quite heavily by the faculty. The book's infinite charts, tables, and figures are enough to drive you nuts. There are very few good photos. Our nursing teachers were regularly having to use other books to show us photographs of whatever we were studying. Also, after reading the material, I always felt like I didn't really know the material. If I really wanted to know the material well, I had to go study it in an Anatomy & Physiology book.

I have looked at other Med/Surg books and prefer them, any of them, to this one.

This book is more suited for the experienced nurse rather than the nursing student.