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Feeling overwhelmed by the complexities of wound care? Skip the confusion--get fast, clear answers with the newly updated Wound Care Facts Made Incredibly Quick!®, 2nd edition. This friendly pocket resource can bring the right information, skills, and confidence to your studies and on-the-job performance, with top-to-bottom guidance on areas including assessment, differential diagnoses, dressings, treatment plans, and daily management. With at-a-glance answers and clear, concise direction, this is the ideal on-the-spot guide for nurses, nursing students, instructors, and all healthcare practitioners to effectively manage wounds.  Take the expert tour through the latest wound care protocols, with:   * NEW and updated content in colorful, quick-read format with bulleted content * NEW and updated tables, photos, drawings, and diagrams * Pocket-sized, spiral-bound format that provides on-the-go access to expert guidance * Brightly colored tabs to aid quick, easy, and on-the-spot research * Laminated, wipe-clean pages for easy notetaking and erasing * Dozens of colorful diagrams and illustrations outlining the core concepts and skills needed for successful wound care, including * Wound and skin assessment tools, procedures, monitoring, and long-term care * Easy-to-follow explanations of skin anatomy and physiology * Step-by-step how-tos for current treatment algorithms and assessment skills * How-tos for procedures such as dry sterile dressings, wet-to-dry dressings, wound cultures, and wound packing * Pressure injuries, including preventative strategies * Strategies for managing pressure, arterial, venous, and diabetic ulcers * Wound care products, including cleansers and medications * Patient teaching points * Clarifies complex terms and concepts - easy-to-follow guidance on basic wound care assessment, procedures, monitoring, and long-term care, including: * Wound classifications * Wound healing stages * Vascular functions * Classifications of interventions, including antibiotic and antibacterials, debridement, oxygenation, dressings, and bandages * Diagnostic tests, treatments, and wrappings for a wide range of wounds, including vascular and arterial ulcers * "Nurse Joy" and "Jake" to provide expert insights and encouragement on interventions and problem-solving     Clinical Editor   Patricia A. Slachta is a Clinical Nurse Specialist and an Interim Clinical Coordinator and Program Director at the Wound Care Center, The Queen's Medical Center, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

This popular core nursing pharmacology textbook provides unique coverage of nursing interventions for drug therapy with related rationales. Highly praised for its organized and readable presentation, the text explains the "why" behind each nursing action, and emphasizes how drugs work differently in different patients. The 10th edition has a new fresh design and approach with an added focus on patient safety integrated into the text. Included in this package is Lippincott's Photo Atlas of Medication Administration (ISBN 9781451112481) which uses the nursing process format to provide step-by-step nursing skills.

Revised and updated by experts in both nephrology and clinical nutrition, this seventh edition of Handbook of Nutrition and the Kidney provides practical and clinically relevant information for addressing the nutritional needs of patients with acute and chronic kidney disease. Concise yet in-depth, the book is packed with tables and charts in every chapter, and outlines detailed and daily nutritional requirements, including proteins, vitamins, minerals, lipids, other fatty acids, and more.Features:Useful for physicians, dietitians, nurses, and anyone who works with patients afflicted by chronic kidney disease (CKD), hemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD), and kidney transplants.Each chapter contains tables and figures that visually demonstrate nutritional principles and enable you to find essential information quickly.Presents easy-to-follow sample menus with lists of ingredients and dietary recommendations.Chapters cover the affects of kidney disease on metabolism and hormonal function, nutritional approaches to caring for different patient types, an overview of nutritional biochemistry and digestive physiology in healthy adults, and more.Includes guidelines and requirements for people with hypertension.Your book purchase includes a complimentary download of the enhanced eBook for iOS, Android, PC & Mac.Take advantage of these practical features that will improve your eBook experience: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.

Principles of Rubin's Pathology, Seventh Edition distills the renowned coverage of Rubin's Pathology, Seventh Edition into a focused, approachable guide to the essentials of pathology.   This resource introduces principles and mechanisms of pathology, followed by organ-specific information, extracting key information on pathogenesis, epidemiology, and clinical features of diseases. Detailed images clarify challenging content, and companion online resources enable students to learn on the go and confidently prepare for exams.   This edition is optimized for students seeking only the most critical information, making it an ideal resource for international medical schools, PA, pharmacy, nursing, and allied health programs.  * Streamlined content emphasizes essential concepts, including the use of bold terms and bulleted lists to emphasize key points, for the most efficient study of pathology available.* Illustrations, photomicrographs, and clinical photographs clarify challenging content and represent the pathogeneses of disease. * Highlighted boxes and helpful graphic icons identify Pathogenesis, Pathology, Epidemiology, and Clinical Features sections.* Globally sourced content reflects an international spectrum of current practices and approaches.* Online resources including new slide-based histopathology lectures presented by Dr. Rubin, original animations, and fully searchable text make learning more engaging and efficient.Enrich Your eBook Reading Experience with Enhanced Video, Audio and Interactive Capabilities!* Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone* Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech* Adapt for unique reading needs, supporting learning disabilities, visual/auditory impairments, second-language or literacy challenges, and more

Part of the highly respected Master Techniques in Surgery series, Colon and Rectal Surgery: Anorectal Operations, 2nd Edition, provides the authoritative, up-to-date guidance you need to master both traditional techniques and innovative new procedures in colon and rectal surgery. Covering both basic and advanced procedures, this edition contains superbly illustrated, expertly written chapters covering virtually any colorectal surgical technique likely to be performed today. Each contributing author presents a real-world viewpoint on a particular surgery, and outstanding full-color illustrations provide visual support for every procedure.   * Presents easy-to-digest, clinically relevant material from world-renowned colon and rectal surgeons who explain their preferred techniques step by step, including indications and contraindications, preoperative planning, postoperative management, outcomes, complications, and follow-up. * Covers  hemorrhoidectomies, anal and rectovaginal fistula and sphincter procedures, fecal incontinence, procedures for perineal prolapse and excision of rectal carcinoma, lateral sphincterotomy, rectocele, and muscle, anal and pilonidal flap procedures. * Includes 17 all-new chapters: * Ultrasound-guided Ligation/Mucosalpexy for Hemorrhoidal Disease * Rubber Band Ligation * Ligation of the Intersphincteric Fistula Tract (LIFT): Without Mesh * Repair of Rectovaginal Fistula Repair with Bioprosthetic Mesh, Transvaginal * Rectovaginal Fistula: Transvaginal Approach Without Mesh * Magnetic Anal Sphincter * Encirclement Procedure for Rectal Prolapse in the Elderly * Perineal Rectosigmoidectomy * Closed Lateral Interanal Sphincterotomy * Transanal Endoscopic Operating * Transanal Minimally Invasive Surgery (TAMIS) for Local Excision * Transabdominal Rectus Flaps * Ventral Hernia Repair * Incision, Excision and Wound VAC Closure * Surgical Management of Anogenital Hidradenitis * Condylomata Acuminatum * Anal Carinoma and MelanomaEnrich Your eBook Reading Experience with Enhanced Video, Audio and Interactive Capabilities! * Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone * Customize for your language, including right-to-left reading, vertical writing, and enhanced annotation in over 30 languages * Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech * Adapt for unique reading needs, supporting learning disabilities, visual/auditory impairments, second-language or literacy challenges, and more

A Practical Guide to Contemporary Pharmacy Practice and Compounding is your hands-on, step-by-step guide to receiving and filling prescription drug orders as well as a comprehensive look at the preparation of sterile and non-sterile extemporaneously compounded preparations.