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Keeping tomorrow’s nurses at the forefront of today’s changing healthcare environment, Brunner & Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 15th Edition delivers the most comprehensive resource available for nursing students in the medical-surgical course.

This bestselling text is designed for the way students like to learn, combining a highly readable approach with engaging case studies and learning tools to help students explore essential patient care practices in real-world terms and gain a more practical understanding of how they’ll apply what they’ve learned in practice.

Trusted by instructors, students, and practicing nurses for nearly 60 years, this landmark resource has been comprehensively updated for the 15th Edition to reflect the latest research, evidence-based practices, settings, issues, ethical challenges, and concerns of today’s healthcare practice.

• NEW! New chapter on assessment and management of patients with obesity including expanded content on gastric and duodenal disorders.
• NEW! Interdisciplinary feature in every chapter. Nursing students should be educated in an environment that provides such interdisciplinary educational experiences based on mutual understanding and respect and designed to enhance the practice of each discipline.
• EXPANDED! Immunodeficiency chapter includes updated HIV infection and AIDS content.
• UPDATED! The following units have been revised Immunologic Function, Digestive and Gastrointestinal Function, and Metabolic and Endocrine Function.
• Concept Mastery Alerts clarify difficult concepts, informed by data from Misconception Alert questions in PrepU for Brunner & Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, ۱۲e.
• Quality and Safety Nursing Alerts build upon previous edition’s Nursing Alerts to highlight issues related to quality and safety nursing care.
• UPDATED! The unit openers include new Case Studies with QSEN Competency Focus to highlight a competency and related knowledge, skills, and attitudes.  Additional information for these case studies related to NANDA-I, NIC, NOC and the nursing process is available online.
• Prioritization Questions have been added to the Critical Thinking Exercises.
• Genetics Charts and Ethical Dilemma Charts have been revised to reflect the latest advances in the field.

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ LWW; Fifteenth, North American edition (October 5, 2021)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 2352 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1975161033
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-۱۹۷۵۱۶۱۰۳۳
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.۲۲ pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.۴۳ x 2.76 x 11.02 inches
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