Your med-surg textbook is over a thousand pages. Your exam is Tuesday.
RN Med-Surg Simplified is what two Professors of Nursing kept after they cut the rest. Thirteen body systems, in plain English, built around the four things you are actually asked for: the pathophysiology you need, the signs you will really see, the medications you will really give, and the nursing action that protects the patient.
Not a summary of the textbook. A sorting of it - by faculty who teach the course and write the review questions their own students sit.
Inside13 body-system chapters - cardiac, respiratory, GI, renal, endocrine, neuro, musculoskeletal, integumentary, hematology, immune and oncology, sensory, reproductive, and fluid and electrolyte careComparative tables for the ones students mix up under pressure - left versus right heart failure, hyper- versus hypothyroidism, Crohn's versus UC, SIADH versus DIEKG rhythm strips with the immediate RN action for eachABG and acid-base interpretation using the ROME mnemonic, with the electrolyte changes that show on the ECGMedication tables organised around what to watch for before you give itPressure-injury staging, burn rule-of-nines and Glasgow Coma Scale referencesCurrent infection-control coverage, including HantavirusFaculty tips and NCLEX-RN-style review questions in every chapterWho it is forNursing students in a med-surg course, students preparing for the NCLEX-RN, and nurses returning to bedside practice who want the essentials back quickly.
What it is notIt is not a replacement for your assigned textbook or your instructors. It is the layer between them and the exam - the part nobody has time to build for themselves at eleven at night.
Kept aligned to the NCLEX-RN test plan that took effect 1 April 2026. Also available spiral-bound, so it lies flat while you write.
By Imelda de Vera Guimary, DNP, APN, MPH, CDE, CWC-AP and Robert Guimary, MSN, RN - Professors of Nursing in active clinical practice.