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Everything you need to know about caring for patients—in one portable "must have" handbook!Clear, but comprehensive discussions of pathophysiology, with rationales in the medications and laboratory sections,explain the scientific basis for the nursing care.Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, the 5th Edition incorporates the latest scientific advances and the practice of nursing today.
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Alphabetical entries geared to the current practice of nursing describe some 270 medical conditions and discuss their cause, gender and life span considerations, assessment, primary nursing diagnosis, planning and implementation, documentation guidelines, and discharge and home healthcare guidelines. No date is given for the first edition published as Davis's Manual of Nursing Therapeutics for Diseases and Disorders . Sommers is at the U. of Cincinnati; Johnson is with the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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