Essential Guide to Caring for Patients: A Comprehensive Resource

By Marilyn Sawyer Sommers

Get the ultimate guide to caring for patients in a succinct, easy-to-understand format. This “must-have” guide provides information on over 240 diseases and disorders at your fingertips. Clear, comprehensive discussions of pathophysiology with rationales in the test and intervention sections help you deliver effective care with confidence.

A “Must-Have” for Nursing Students

If you’re in a nursing program, this book will help you tremendously! It’s a quick reference guide that gets right to the point and provides the information you need to be successful.

Perfect for Studying and Understanding Content

This book is a must-use when studying for standardized tests and licensing exams such as the NCLEX. It provides thorough coverage for each disorder, including causes, pertinent physical and psychosocial findings, primary nursing diagnoses, and collaborative and independent nursing interventions.

Updated and Revised

This revised and updated edition includes:

• Thoroughly reviewed coverage for each disorder
• Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) for each disorder, plus documentation information on average length of stay and home healthcare guidelines
• New considerations for handling COVID/infectious diseases and pandemics in the sections on Global Health Considerations and Evidence-Based Practice and Health Policy
• A new Health Disparities and Sexual and Gender Minority Health section with considerations for the LGBTQ+ community

Key Features

This guide offers:

• Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) for each disorder
• Diagnostic tables that make test results easy to reference
• The genetic basis of the diseases and disorders
• The physiology of the disorders and how it relates to risks and complications
• Collaborative and independent interventions
• Pharmacological tables outlining the dosages, mechanisms of action, and rationales for the drugs most commonly used for a disorder
• Separate headings for psychosocial issues
• Outlines for required documentation
• Home care and discharge guidelines and patient teaching checklists
• Evidence-based practice section
• Global health considerations that reflect issues that transcend national borders

Product Details

Publisher: F.A. Davis Company; Seventh edition (September 27, 2022)
Language: English
Pages: 1296
ISBN-10: 1719645493
ISBN-13: 978-1719645492
Reading Age: 1 year and up