Medical-Surgical Nursing Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care, 2-Volume Set 10th Edition

Master the essential medical-surgical nursing content you’ll need for success on the Next-Generation NCLEX^® Exam (NGN) and safe clinical practice! Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care, 10th Edition uses a conceptual approach to provide adult health knowledge and help you develop the clinical nursing judgment skills that today’s medical-surgical nurses need to deliver safe, effective care. "Iggy" emphasizes three emerging trends in nursing - interprofessional collaborative care, concept-based learning, and clinical judgment and systems thinking - trends that will ground you in how to think like a nurse and how to apply your knowledge in the classroom, simulation laboratory, and clinical settings. A perennial bestseller, "Iggy" also features NCLEX Exam-stylesss Challenge and Mastery questions to prepare you for success on the NGN!

• NEW! Strengthened conceptual approach with data-driven Concept and Exemplar selections adds the concepts of pain, inflammation, and infection, and presents Exemplar disorders with a nursing-process format and depth to help prepare you for the Next-Generation NCLEX^® Exam (NGN). 
• NEW and UNIQUE! Enhanced focus on clinical judgment and systems thinking ensures alignment with the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Model and emphasizes the six cognitive skills you’ll need for effective clinical judgment, for the NGN, and for safe clinical practice. 
• NEW! Emphasis on need-to-know content provides a solid foundation for beginning nurse generalists, including only the most important patient problems for each medical condition, with streamlined chapters and concise coverage of nursing skills for preoperative and postoperative care.
• NEW! Updated content throughout reflects the latest national and international evidence-based guidelines and protocols.
• NEW! Improved learning resources on the companion Evolve website are thoroughly updated and closely integrated with the textbook.
• NEW! Interprofessional Collaboration boxes highlight how the nurse collaborates with other members of the healthcare team. 
• NEW! Ethical/Legal Considerations boxes address dilemmas that medical-surgical nurses face related to technological changes and socioeconomic disparities. 
• NEW! Increased emphasis on home care, health promotion, and community-based care reflects the ongoing shift of care from hospitals to the home environment. 
• NEW! Updated illustrations include new anatomy and physiology images, procedure images, and disorder photos.
• NEW! Updated drug tables are designed for quick reference and the use of drug trade names is eliminated for better alignment with the NGN.
• NEW! Coverage of opioid misuse is updated to reflect the opioid crisis in the U.S.
• NEW! Content on personal safety and preparedness for mass casualty events has been expanded to equip you for the realities of healthcare today. 
• NEW! Key terms and definitions at the beginning of each chapter give you advance familiarity with essential terminology.
• NEW! Revised Key Points align closely with Learning Outcomes and each includes a QSEN or Clinical Nursing Concept "tag" to maximize your study efficiency.
• NEW! Simplified and streamlined chapters make the book easier to use and information easier to find.