Text Connects key concepts to practice and patient care for the diseases and disorders that will be encountered most frequently in practice. Promotes critical thinking and clinical judgment by emphasizing the 'whys' and 'hows' of clinical presentation and treatment plans. Focuses on the patient-centered role of the nurse, with clear and well-defined nursing coverage. Presents Nursing Management clearly and consistently using the nursing process to identify and reinforce the nurse's responsibilities as a member of an inter-professional care team. Organizes Nursing Interventions into 'Assessments, ' 'Action, ' and 'Teaching' categories with rationales relating back to the underlying physiology and pathophysiology. Incorporates the critical care content important for new nurses. Davis Advantage--Personalized Learning and Quizzing Personalized Learning Creates personalized learning plans tailored to students' individual needs to help them build a strong foundation and make the connections to Med-Surg topics. Reinforces learning and engages students through videos and interactive activities to drive mastery. Tracks students' progress every step of the way; students know exactly how they're doing and where they need to focus their studies. Davis Edge Quizzing Challenges students to think at higher cognitive levels with over 2,000 NCLEX(R)-style questions that align with the Medical-Surgical Nursing text with page references. Includes self-grading that provides immediate feedback as each quiz is completed. Promotes in-depth understanding and comprehension with comprehensive rationales for both correct and incorrect responses. Builds students' confidence for the difficult alternate-format questions, including 'select all that apply' and 'ordered response'. Prepares students for course exams, ATI, HESI, and NCLEX(R) exams with test-taking strategies and tips. Makes studying and reviewing on the go even easier with access to the ebook version of the text.

Provides students with a study tool that reinforces learning through fun-to-do exercises. Each chapter follows along with the text and features a host of critical thinking exercises, basic matching and true/false tests, word scrambles, crossword puzzles, vocabulary review exercises, and NCLEX-PN-style questions.

Davis Advantage for Medical-Surgical Nursing is a complete, integrated solution that combines an easy-to-read textbook with an innovative online program to drive student success in the Med-Surg course. An access code inside new, printed textbooks unlocks an ebook, as well as access to Davis Advantage. Or, choose the all-digital Instant Access option which includes the ebook and immediate access to Davis Advantage. THE TEXTBOOK Medical-Surgical Nursing helps students make the connections between concepts and patient care to ensure they understand the important relationships between the pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and management of the diseases and disorders they are most likely to encounter in practice. A concise and consistent organization focuses on the 'need-to-know' to better prepare students for practice, while also promoting critical thinking and clinical judgment. ONLINE (Davis Advantage) Using a unique and proven approach across a Learn-Apply-Assess continuum, Davis Advantage's personalized learning, clinical judgment, and quizzing assignments engage students; help them make the connections to key Med-Surg topics; and prepare for Next Gen NCLEX® success. Davis Advantage aligns seamlessly with the textbook and equips instructors with actionable analytics to track students' progress, remediate where needed, and facilitate an active learning environment. LEARN--Personalized Learning The foundation of the Davis Advantage platform, the Personalized Learning assignments help students make the connections to must-know content. Students are assessed on their comprehension of key topics from the text, and then are guided through animated mini-lecture videos and dynamic activities to reinforce learning and practice applying their knowledge. APPLY--Clinical Judgment 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 them to build the clinical judgment skills needed to be practice-ready nurses and to prepare for the Next Gen NCLEX® with confidence. ASSESS--Quizzing Quizzing assignments uses NCLEX®-style questions for assessment and remediation. Questions cover the same topics and concepts as the textbook to assess students' comprehension, providing the additional practice students need to test their knowledge, master course content, and perform well on course and board exams. PLUS! Brand-new, stand-alone Bowtie and Trend questions provide students with even more practice answering these new, individual item types.

Assure your mastery of medical-surgical nursing knowledge while honing your critical thinking and test-taking skills. The 3rd Edition of this popular resource features over 2,300 questions (including 550 alternate-format questions) that reflect the latest advances in medical-surgical nursing and the latest NCLEX-RN® test plan. They organize the seemingly huge volume of information you must master into manageable sections divided by body systems and specific diseases

Text Explores the full-spectrum nursing model of thinking, doing, and caring and reinforces the model with critical-thinking questions and exercises in every chapter to help prepare students for practice. Uses multiple case studies per chapter to bring nursing theory to life and explain the nurse's role in today's complex healthcare system. Emphasizes the important aspects of safe and effective care to ensure better patient outcomes. Presents illustrated, step-by-step procedures with rationales that deliver all the information students need for the skills lab or clinical. Promotes effective care planning with care plans and concept care maps as well as NANDA, NIC, and NOC. Describes the research evidence related to the chapter topic and encourages further study. Davis Advantage--Personalized Learning Plans for Students Creates personalized learning plans that ensure students master the content. Charts a path for each student to follow based on their strengths and weaknesses. Offers multiple paths to learning success through an immersive, interactive, multi-media experience with a wealth of animation videos, case studies, dynamic exercises and quizzes. Tracks each student's progress every step of the way; students know exactly how they're doing and where they need to focus their studies. Davis Edge- Online Personalized Quizzing Features progressive quizzing, customized to each student's knowledge level, that challenges them to reach higher levels of understanding, and identifies the areas in which they need additional review. Provides comprehensive rationales for correct and incorrect answers that teach students how to analyze questions critically--ensuring they understand why they answered a question correctly, and when they don't, how to improve. Includes self-grading that provides immediate feedback as each quiz is completed. Offers test-taking strategies and tips to prepare students for course exams, ATI, HESI, and NCLEX(R) exams. Highlights alternate-format questions to build confidence for these more difficult question types, including "select all that apply" and "ordered response." Lets students select practice quizzes by specific topics or concepts with a quiz builder. Monitors students' overall progress and identifies their strengths and weaknesses in the Student Success Center.

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