Key features

• •NEW enhanced eBook included with purchase
• •NEW and revised content that reflects current medical-surgical nursing best practices
• •NEW and updated end-of-chapter quizzes and 150-questionend-of-book practice test that helps to foolproof your preparation
• •NEW social media content in each chapter
• •NEW content updates written by nurses who have passed the most current CMSRN exam
• •Reviews disorders by body systems as covered in certification exams
• •Study plan advice, preparation strategies, and test-taking strategies that prepare you for exam-taking success, including a certification test plan
• •Easy-to-use outline format that outlines each topic with key points, making it easy to remember important points
• •Resources that include: NANDA taxonomy, common infectious disorders, CDC fact sheets, and lab tests results
• •Contents that include:Medical-surgical certification eligibility requirements—lists criteria for medical-surgical nurse (RN-BC), Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN) certification, and clinical nurse specialist in adult health (ACNS-BC) certification
• •Nursing foundations and principles
• •Legal and ethical nursing issues
• •Principles of wound care, including nursing assessments and treatment skills
• •Disruptions in homeostasis
• •Perioperative nursing
• •Cultural and ethnic beliefs and practices
• •Safety issues
• •Health maintenance
• •Patient's bill of rights and self-determination
• •Developmental theories of Jean Piaget and Abraham Maslow
• •Nutrition
• •Substance abuse
• •Complementary and herbal therapies
• •Obesity
• •Adult immunizations
• •Laboratory values
• •The ability to download the eBook on multiple devices at one time — providing a seamless reading experience online or offline
• •Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that allow you to search within this book, or across your entire library of VitalSource eBooks
• •Multiple viewing options that enable you to scale images and text to any size without losing page clarity as well as responsive design
• •The ability to highlight text and add notes with one click