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Medical-Surgical Nursing: A concept approach, 1st Edition | AU/NZ

Trish Burton, Ali Moloney

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Medical-Surgical Nursing: A concept approach 1st Edition by Trish Burton/Ali Moloney
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Overview

Medical-Surgical Nursing offers a concept map approach to common acute care patient presentations, using a body-systems model. The aim of the concept maps is to promote deep learning for students in person-centred care. The text also provides the student with a nursing decision-making framework for clinical planning, right from the beginning of a shift, with the student being less dependent on the nurse in applying clinical decision-making to person-centred nursing care. This new first-edition text is concise, practical and streamlined. It interfaces with other Cengage nursing texts, such as Fundamentals, Clinical Skills and Health Assessment.

Instructor resources include instructor’s manual, Test Bank, PowerPoints and videos.

Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform. Learn more about the online tools au.cengage.com/mindtap

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Meet the Authors

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Trish Burton

Dr Trish Burton, PhD La Trobe (2006); M Ed (Higher Education), Melbourne (1992). Trish is currently Senior Lecturer, Nursing and Midwifery in the College of Healthcare Sciences, Division of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Australia. Trish previously taught at Victoria University, and was seconded to Swinburne to develop their Bachelor of Nursing course, employing blended learning methods as central to curriculum development. Trish has a background in Curriculum Development, Competency Mapping, Blended Learning and eLearning. She has been widely published, has sat on numerous Nursing Education committees, developed curricula and has participated in several professional consultancies. Trish has lengthy experience in teaching all aspects of undergraduate nursing, notably Acute Care, Complex Care (emergency, critical care and cardiac), Health Assessment, Pharmacology, Pathophysiology, Evidence Based Practice, Research Methodologies, Ethics, Legal Studies, Indigenous Health, Teaching and Learning, Management and Leadership, Professional Practice, Nursing as a Profession, Primary Health Care, Interprofessional Education, Care Coordination, Nutrition and Communication. Trish is a Fellow, Australian College of Nursing and Member, Australian Collaborative Education Network.

Ali Moloney

Ali Moloney, BN, GCert CardiacN, GCert AdvN, GCert FlightN, GCertEd(AppLearn), BEdProfHons(AppLearn), Cert IV TAE, and PhD candidate (2021) at The University of the Sunshine Coast (USC). In addition to her extensive 25-year career in clinical and critical care nursing and 13 years teaching at TAFE, since 2018 Ali has worked as a tutor across all years of the Bachelor of Nursing program at USC. She is involved in the new USC campus at Moreton Bay and works with course coordinators on reviewing and collating feedback for future courses. Ali also has vast experience in rural and remote nursing, and emergency nursing.

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  • Learning objectives are designed to follow five key concepts in the stages of assessment and care to ensure consistency across all body systems
  • Each Concept Map section in the chapter presents a visual pathway, cues and questions to guide students through Assessment, Planning, Intervention, Evaluation, and Discharge
  • Boxed elements relating to the Concept Maps include 'Subjective assessment' and 'Objective assessment' boxes that provide context for students about client/patient presentation; 'Presentation / Patient history' always precedes the first Concept Map segment and describes the incoming client/ patient; 'Assessment' boxes indicate what students are looking for in response to the client/patient presentation; 'Planning' boxes provide students with information about how to plan appropriate care; 'Intervention’ boxes guide the student through appropriate treatment and care; Evaluation boxes help the student to assess progress and make any further plans for treatment and care; and Discharge planning ensures that the patient leaves the hospital with a plan for ongoing care.
  • 'Evidence based practice' boxes emphasise the importance of evidence and clinical research in nursing by linking theory to practice
  • 'Safety in nursing' boxes help students to identify client health and safety issues and the appropriate response to a critical situation
  • 'Reflective practice' boxes introduce realistic clinical situations and ethical controversies, with questions that ask students to consider how they would react
  • End-of-chapter elements include reference to relevant clinical skills, problem solving scenarios and portfolio development, so that students can practise planning and prioritising using the key chapter concepts and methods as well as developing a portfolio of resources for each area of their nursing practice
  • Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform - the personalised eLearning solution. MindTap is a flexible and easy-to-use platform that helps build student confidence and gives you a clear picture of their progress. MindTap for Burton & Moloney's Medical-Surgical Nursing is full of innovative resources to support critical thinking, and help your students move from memorisation to mastery! Includes: Burton & Moloney's Medical-Surgical Nursing eBook, knowledge checks, concept check quizzes, and concept maps sequences. MindTap is a premium purchasable eLearning tool. Contact your Cengage learning consultant to find out how MindTap can transform your course
  • Instructor Companion Website: your #1 resource for your course. This tailored collection of teaching tools includes downloadable PowerPoint lecture slides, Instructor's Manual, and Test Bank with customisable questions for quizzes and assessments. The Instructor's Manual is packed with content that helps you set up and administer your class, including tips for using concept maps, solutions to questions, additional resources, and mapping to NMBA standard. Log in or request an account to access instructor resources at au.cengage.com/instructor/account for Australia or nz.cengage.com/instructor/account for New Zealand.
  • A bank of questions has been developed in conjunction with the text for creating quizzes, tests and exams for your students. Create multiple test versions in an instant and deliver tests from your LMS, your classroom, or wherever you want using Cognero. Cognero test generator is a flexible online system that allows you to import, edit, and manipulate content from the text's test bank or elsewhere, including your own favourite test questions.

Table of Contents

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Part 1 Introduction
1. Clinical decision making and concept maps
2. Assessment and diagnostic tests
Part 2 Body systems/Common presentations
3. Respiratory system
4. Cardiovascular system
5. Haematological system
6. Central nervous system
7. Pain management
8. Integumentary systems
9. Urinary system
10. Endocrine system
11. Mental health and substance use
12. Visual and auditory systems
13. Gastrointestinal system
14. Liver, pancreas and biliary tract
15. Musculoskeletal system
16. Female reproductive system
17. Male reproductive system
Part 3 Interprofessional approaches to care
18. Culturally safe care
19. Responding to the deteriorating patient
20. Perioperative care
21. Complex care
22. Cancer Care
23. Chronic disease management
24. Primary health care
25. Rural and remote health care

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This Cengage solution can be seamlessly integrated into most Learning Management Systems (Blackboard, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and more) but does require a different ISBN for access codes. Please work with your Cengage Learning Consultant to ensure the proper course set up and ordering information. For additional information, please visit the LMS Integration site.

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  • ISBN-10: 0170470733
  • ISBN-13: 9780170470735
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Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform - the personalised eLearning solution. MindTap is a flexible and easy-to-use platform that helps build student confidence and gives you a clear picture of their progress. MindTap for Burton & Moloney's Medical-Surgical Nursing is full of innovative resources to support critical thinking, and help your students move from memorisation to mastery! Includes: Burton & Moloney's Medical-Surgical Nursing eBook, knowledge checks, concept check quizzes, and concept maps sequences. MindTap is a premium purchasable eLearning tool. Contact your Cengage learning consultant to find out how MindTap can transform your course