Visual nursing : a guide to diseases, skills, and treatments.

Visual nursing : a guide to diseases, skills, and treatments.

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	2nd ed.
Imprint:	Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2012.
Description:	ix, 502 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Nursing -- Atlases. Nursing Care -- Atlases. Nursing Assessment -- Atlases.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8559247

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Varying Form of Title:	Lippincott's visual nursing
Other authors / contributors:	Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
ISBN:	9781609136505 (alk. paper) 1609136500 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. 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 occcurs; "Hands On" icon shows the nurse how to perform nursing procedures and techniques and administer treatments. - Publisher.

Table of Contents:

Basic assessment skills
Cardiovascular care
Respiratory care
Neurologic care
Gastrointestinal care
Musculoskeletal care
Renal and urologic care
Hematologic and immunologic care
Endocrine care
Integumentary care
Female reproductive care
Male reproductive care.