Summary
Get ready to provide efficient, informed patient care, with the newly updated Professional Guide to Diseases , 11th Edition . This comprehensive guide offers the causes, signs and symptoms for more than 600 disorders, with expert nursing direction on tests, assessments, diagnosis, treatments, and special considerations.
Whether you are a student preparing for board certification or are a new or experienced nurse, this is vital support for understanding correct treatment of the common conditions seen almost daily.
Build up your ground-floor knowledge of a wide range of common disorders and diseases:
- NEW full-color figures and illustrations
- Boxed text on pathophysiology and prevention that helps reinforce difficult concepts
- Icons that emphasize important concepts: Elderly Tip, Pediatric Tip, Clinical Alert, Life-Threatening Disorder, and Confirming Diagnosis
- Consistent template that makes information quick and easy to find yet comprehensive enough to offer complete coverage of a group of similar diseases
- Expert guidance that leads you to targeted, cost-effective testing
- Chapters offer a thorough grounding in:Disorders found in individual body systems - Cardiovascular; respiratory; neurologic; gastrointestinal; hepatobiliary; musculoskeletal; renal and urologic; immune; hematologic; metabolic and nutritional; endocrine; eye; ear, nose and throat; skin; genetic; obstetric and gynecologic; sexual; and psychiatric
- Malignant neoplasms - Head, neck and spine; thorax; abdomen and pelvis; male and female genitalia; bone, skin and soft tissue; blood and lymph
- Infection - Gram-positive cocci, gram-negative cocci, gram-positive bacilli, gram-negative bacilli, spirochetes and mycobacteria, mycoses, respiratory viruses, rash-producing viruses, enteroviruses, arbovirus, miscellaneous viruses, rickettsia, protozoa, helminths
- Trauma - Head, neck and spine, thorax, abdomen, extremities, whole body
- Updated information on rare diseases, potential agents of bioterrorism, and complementary and alternative therapies for specific conditions, with additional coverage for more than 50 life-threatening disorders
- Detailed guidance on hundreds of commonly seen disorders and diseases in easy-to-read language - ideal for both graduate and undergraduate study
- Offers new nurses the confidence to function fully while building on-the-unit skills and know-how
- Small enough size to carry with you as a solid resource - informative, concise and organized for easy reference
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About the Clinical Editor Dr. Laura M. Willis, DNP, APRN-CNP,CMSRN, is a Family Nurse Practitioner at Urbana Family Medicine and Pediatrics in Urbana, Ohio
