Davis Advantage for Medical-Surgical Nursing: A Comprehensive Solution for Student Success

By Janice J. Hoffman, PhD, RN, ANEF, and Nancy J. Sullivan, DNP, RN, Davis Advantage for Medical-Surgical Nursing is a cutting-edge, integrated solution that combines a user-friendly textbook with an innovative online program to drive student success in medical-surgical nursing courses.

The Textbook: Medical-Surgical Nursing

The Medical-Surgical Nursing textbook helps students make connections between concepts and patient care, ensuring they understand the important relationships between pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and management of diseases and disorders they’ll encounter in practice. The concise and consistent organization focuses on the need-to-know content to better prepare students for practice, while promoting critical thinking and clinical judgment.

Davis Advantage: Personalized Learning, Clinical Judgment, and Quizzing Assignments

Davis Advantage’s innovative approach uses a Learn-Apply-Assess continuum to engage students and help them make connections to key medical-surgical nursing topics. The personalized learning, clinical judgment, and quizzing assignments prepare students for Next Gen NCLEX success and align seamlessly with the textbook.

Personalized Learning: Making Connections to Must-Know Content

The foundation of the Davis Advantage platform, the Personalized Learning assignments assess students’ comprehension of key topics from the text and then guide them through animated mini-lecture videos and dynamic activities to reinforce learning and practice applying their knowledge.

Clinical Judgment: Building Practice-Ready Skills

Clinical Judgment assignments challenge students to think critically and make informed decisions to achieve the best patient outcomes. Each case study presents real-life, complex clinical situations that mimic the new Next Gen NCLEX format and align with the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model, helping students build the clinical judgment skills needed to be practice-ready nurses and prepare for the Next Gen NCLEX with confidence.

Quizzing: Mastering Course Content and Preparing for Exams

Quizzing assignments use NCLEX-style questions for assessment and remediation, covering the same topics and concepts as the textbook to assess students’ comprehension. These assignments provide additional practice for students to test their knowledge, master course content, and perform well on course and board exams. Plus, brand-new, stand-alone Bowtie and Trend questions offer even more practice answering these new, individual item types.

Product Details

Published by F.A. Davis Company, the third edition was released on October 2, 2023. This comprehensive resource is available in English and features 1904 pages in a hardcover format. The ISBN-10 is 1719647364, and the ISBN-13 is 978-1719647366.