Diagnostic Test Facts Made Incredibly Quick!


Book Description

Diagnostic Test Facts Made Incredibly Quick! provides instant access to essential information on more than 400 diagnostic tests. The book fits comfortably into a pocket, and the wipeable page surface allows nurses to write notes and remove them easily. Distinctively colored tabs identify the major sections: Basics, Blood, Urine, Cultures, Imaging, and Other including ECG and EEG. Tests are listed alphabetically within each section. Each listing includes the purpose of the test; normal reference values for men, women, and children, including SI values; critical values; and nursing considerations. Scores of quick-reference charts and illustrations are included.




Medical-surgical Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!


Book Description

Medical-Surgical Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, Second Edition, is a practical, informative reference in the entertaining, award-winning Incredibly Easy! style. This thoroughly updated edition covers hundreds of disorders and includes new chapters on end-of-life care and obesity, plus sixteen pages of full-color illustrations, sidebars on evidence-based practice pointers, and a patient resources appendix. Chapters feature key points summaries, light-hearted headings, and illustrations and are formatted to help readers find information easily. Quick-scan tables, flow charts, key terms, bullets, checklists, graphic logos, and cartoon characters highlight essential information. A bound-in CD-ROM contains over 300 NCLEX®-style questions, plus concept maps and other tools.




Medical Spanish Made Incredibly Easy!.


Book Description

Translates into Spanish the questions commonly asked when examining the primary body systems, and provides educational phrases to teach patients about major clinical disorders, pain management, medications, and nutrition.




Maternal-Neonatal Facts Made Incredibly Quick!


Book Description

Fully updated and now in full-color throughout, Maternal-Neonatal Facts Made Incredibly Quick! Second Edition is the perfect point-of-care reference for nurses working with pregnant patients in any clinical setting. This pocket-sized book provides instant access to information nurses need quickly every day on all aspects of prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and neonatal care. The book includes a section on ECG interpretation, the most up-to-date ACLS guidelines, a glossary of common terms, conversion charts, and over 125 quick-reference charts and illustrations. Colored tabs help nurses find information quickly. The wipeable page surface allows nurses to write notes and remove them easily.




Critical Care Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!


Book Description

This is a handy reference book in the award-winning Incredibly Easy! style--perfect for those entering or needing a refresher in critical care nursing. Critical care nursing is one of the most demanding and complex areas of nursing practice. The critical care nurse has to be "broadly specialized" with a fluency in a wide range of interconnected concepts, body system physiology, pathophysiology, and highly technical interventions, while processing data from multiple sources--all this in an environment where there is no room for error and seconds really do count.




Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy!


Book Description

Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy! is the resource every student needs to master the art of care planning, including concept mapping. Starting with the nursing process, the book provides the foundations for writing practical care plans, walks students through the care planning process, builds the critical thinking skills needed to individualize care, and offers tips on incorporating evidence-based standards and rationales into nursing interventions. Coverage includes up-to-date NANDA nursing diagnoses, NIC and NOC, and an English-NANDA dictionary that makes understanding nursing diagnoses fun. Sample care plans appear throughout the book. A bound-in CD-ROM contains over 150 customizable care plans.




Maternal-Neonatal Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!


Book Description

Maternal-Neonatal Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! Second Edition offers everything nurses need to know for optimal maternal-neonatal nursing care. This thoroughly updated edition includes new information on bed rest, postpartum depression, alternative therapies, substance abuse, and complex psychosocial disorders, plus a new icon highlighting evidence-based practice. The book is written in the entertaining, award-winning Incredibly Easy! style, with numerous charts and illustrations, two four-page full-color inserts, humorous cartoons, icons emphasizing key information, memory joggers, and end-of-chapter quick quizzes. A bound-in CD-ROM contains more than 250 NCLEX®-style questions, as well as concept maps and lists of disorders with their associated nursing diagnoses.




Assessment Made Incredibly Easy!


Book Description

Completely updated, this edition presents assessment skills in a reader-friendly format that makes learning fun. The text provides nurses with the know-how they need to obtain pertinent health histories, perform physical examinations, and recognize normal and abnormal findings.




Pathophysiology Made Incredibly Easy!


Book Description

Expanded, updated, and now in full color throughout, this Fourth Edition presents vital pathophysiology information in an easy-to-understand, easy-to-remember, entertaining, and practical manner. Chapters cover cancer, infection, immune disorders, genetics, blood, and disorders of each body system, highlighting pathophysiologic processes, signs and symptoms, diagnostic test findings, and current treatments. Illustrations, memory joggers, and other special features help readers understand and remember key points. This edition's expanded cancer chapter covers more types of cancer. The Practice Makes Perfect self-test includes more NCLEX®-style questions, with rationales for correct and incorrect answers. A companion website on thePoint will offer additional information, illustrations, memory joggers, and study cards.




I. V. Therapy


Book Description

I.V. Therapy: An Incredibly Easy! Workout features more than 250 enjoyable practice exercises to help readers master I.V. therapy with ease. A perfect companion to I.V. Therapy Made Incredibly Easy!, this workbook uses the light-hearted Incredibly Easy! writing style that makes learning and reviewing complex information less threatening and more fun. Chapters test the reader's knowledge of essential I.V. therapy information, including I.V. therapy fundamentals, peripheral I.V. therapy, central venous therapy, I.V. medications, transfusions, chemotherapy infusions, and parenteral nutrition. Readers maneuver through practice exercises that assess learning, encourage comprehension and retention, and provide a little laughter. Nurse Joy and other host characters offer coaching and encouragement.