Medical-Surgical Nursing Made Incredibly Easy

By Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Book Overview

Selected as a Doody's Essential Title for 2025

Feeling anxious or unsure about medical-surgical nursing care? Get grounded in the latest best practices, with the freshly updated Medical-Surgical Nursing Made Incredibly Easy (R), 5th Edition.

This colorful fully illustrated guide offers clear, concise descriptions of crucial medical-surgical nursing concepts and procedures, with learning aids that help you grasp skills and concepts easily, in an enjoyable Incredibly Easy style. From assessment and diagnostics to current evidence-based treatments and interventions, this is the perfect backup to class materials, helpful support for new nurses, and a handy refresher for experienced nurses.

Be expertly guided into a solid foundation in medical-surgical care, with: NEW and updated statistics and guidelines on current medical-surgical nursing practice in a concise, quick-scan outline format The "need-to-know" basics, including the most common disorders medical-surgical nurses encounter Chapters address disorders by body system - neurologic, cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, endocrine, renal and urologic, reproductive, musculoskeletal, and more Chapters offer vital foundational knowledge, with expert direction on: Essential elements of medical-surgical nursing practice and the nursing process Fluids and electrolytes, perioperative care, and pain management Diagnostic testing - CT, MRI, and PET scan imaging, x-rays, biopsies, EMGs, and more Additional chapters on cancer care, obesity, gerontologic care, and end-of-life care Current data and best practices on assessing and treating common disorders - Reviews of anatomy and physiology, step-by-step guidance on assessments and history-taking, and diagnostic testing, including patient preparation, monitoring, teaching points, and developing a plan of care Hundreds of colorful diagrams, drawings, and charts that illustrate core terms and concepts, with easy-to-retain definitions "Practice Makes Perfect" end-of-book practice exam with NCLEX(R)-style questions in current exam format Chapter features include: Memory jogger - Acronyms and other memory tricks that help you remember key concepts and treatments A closer look - Illustrations that explain anatomy, physiology, and complex pathways Education edge - Practical guidance for effective patient teaching What do I do? - Steps to take in emergency situations Stop, look, and listen - Elements of assessment for a particular body system Weighing the evidence - Evidence-based practice pointers that support nursing actions Quick quiz - End-of-chapter multiple-choice questions to help you retain chapter content, followed by answers and rationales Nurse Joy and Jake illustrated characters offer tips and insights throughout About the Clinical EditorsKeelin Cromar, MSN, RN, is Adjunct Nursing Faculty at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX

Casey Moebius, DNP, RN, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nurse Education at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1975177517
• ISBN13: 9781975177515
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: LWW
• Length: 1000 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great book!

This book is perfect for the very basics (e.g., preparing for a topic on an assignment or exam review). If you’re looking for something more comprehensive, then probably not the best one to buy. You can’t beat the price.

Get the CD not the book!

The cd is awesome. I have both the cd and book. fortunately i was able to check out the book from the library. Honestly, the cd helped me bring up my test grades from a C and B on the 1st two tests to high A's on the following, even getting the highest grade on the third test. The cd really prepares you for the type of questions to expect in med surg.The book, you can definitely do without so dont waste your money, instead try getting the reviews and rationales book for med surg or lippincott's nclex review book. The nclex book is broken up into sections which works out wonderfully for med surg.

medical surgical nursing made incredibly easy

This CD ROM is a great resource; I am using it to prepare for med surg certification and it is going well. It gives you rationales for the correct and incorrect answers for every question, so you keep learning more info with every one you do. It is in a cool animated game format to make it more fun and you can pick what categories of questions and how many you want to do with each session, then you get your score at the end. This was recommended by two different review courses I attended.

med-surg

This is a great review for state boards or as a refresher for nursing skills.

FUN GAMES

I Love the CD a lot! I play with it each day like games. It's fun and provide hint and immediate feedback to your answer. I've learned a lot of info in there that weren't covered in text. A Plus for any nursing students to have.

worth the investment!!!

I hate reading dry textbooks. We were required to read Lewis's Medical-Surgical Nursing book which is huge, heavy and has a tiny font. I tried but just couldn't bring myself to do it. I purchased this cd-rom and studied all the questions by categorized system which corresponded to whatever topic we were studying at the time in class. It hits the highlights you are expected to know. The answers to the questions asked are immediate as you go through the system of your choice (ex: integumentary, respiratory, gastro, hematologic, endocrine, cardio, fundamentals, & assessment)with well written rationales to help you learn as you "test". Bottom line, I studied these questions exclusively for my first semester of med surg and made an A and it was nearly fun! :) Am using it to retain my knowledge of med surg during the summer and to build on new information for med surg part 2 in the fall! VERY worth it to me.