Visual nursing : A guide to diseases, skills, and treatments

Carter, Michael A. (Author). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. (Added Author).

Summary: This colorful book for practicing nurses and nursing students provides a unique approach to learning important clinical concepts and techniques. It presents information in a remarkably clear and easy-to-understand fashion, using abundant illustrations to demonstrate hands-on treatments and explain disease pathophysiology. This fully visual text lets the nurse read less and understand more, improving her skills and gaining confidence as a health professional through pictures. Includes 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 occurs; "Hands On" icon shows the nurse how to perform nursing procedures and techniques and administer treatments--Publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781609136505 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 1609136500 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
ix, 502 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Contributors and consultants -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Basic assessment of skills -- Chapter 2. Cardiovasular care -- Chapter 3. Respiratory care -- Chapter 4. Neurologic care -- Chapter 5. Gastrointestinal care -- Chapter 6. Musculoskeletal care -- Chapter 7. Renal and urologic care -- Chapter 8. Hematologic and immunologic care -- Chapter 9. Endocrine care -- Chatper 10. Integumentary care -- Chapter 11. Female reproductive care -- Chapter 12. Male reproductive care -- Credits -- Selected references -- Index.