Alexander's Nursing Practice Hospital and Home 5th Edition

Key Features

• New edition of the UK’s most comprehensive textbook on Adult Nursing!
• Retains the popular ‘three-part’ structure to ensure comprehensive coverage of the subject area – Common Disorders, Core Nursing Issues and Specific Patient Groups
• Illustrative A&P and pathophysiology help explain key diseases and disorders
• ‘Real-life’ Case Studies help contextualise and apply new information
• Explains relevant tests and investigations and, when needed, the role of the nurse in the context of each of them
• Helpful learning features include Key Nursing Issues and Reflection and Learning – What Next?
• Encourages readers to critically examine issues that are related to care provision
• Useful icons throughout the text directs readers to additional online material
• Glossary contains over 300 entries to explain new terminology and concepts
• Appendices include notes on Système International (SI) units and reference ranges for common biochemical and haematological values
• Perfect for second and third-year undergraduate nursing students, senior Trainee Nursing Associates, those ‘returning to practice’ or needing to review practice and prepare for revalidation

New to This Edition

• Edited by the world-renowned Ian Peate – editor of the British Journal of Nursing – who brings together a new line up of contributors from across the UK and Australia
• Reflects contemporary issues such as the complexity of acute admissions and the increasing importance of the multidisciplinary approach to patient care
• Reflects the 2018 NMC Standards of Proficiency for Nurses and the NMC 2018 Code
• Helps prepare students for ‘prescribing readiness’, with basic principles of pharmacology, evidence-based person-centred approaches to medicines management and an understanding of the regulatory, professional legal and ethical frameworks
• Recognises the introduction of the Nursing Associate role in England

Contents

• 1 The essence of nursing
• 2 The nursing team
• Section 1: Care of patients with common disorders
• 3 Nursing patients with cardiovascular disorders
• 4 Nursing patients with respiratory disorders
• 5 Nursing patients with gastrointestinal, liver and biliary disorders
• 6 Nursing patients with endocrine and metabolic disorders
• Part 1 Nursing patients with endocrine disorders
• Part 2 Nursing patients with diabetes mellitus
• 7 Nursing patients with disorders of the lymphatic and immune systems
• 8 Nursing patients with disorders of the breast and reproductive systems
• Part 1 Nursing patients with disorders of the reproductive systems
• Part 2 Nursing patients with disorders of the breast
• 9 Nursing patients with urinary disorders
• 10 Nursing patients with disorders of the nervous system
• 11 Nursing patients with musculoskeletal disorders
• 12 Nursing patients with blood disorder
• 13 Nursing patients with skin disorders
• 14 Nursing patients with disorders of the eye and sight impairment
• 15 Nursing patients with disorders of the ear, nose and throat
• Section 2: Core nursing issues
• 16 Medicines management
• 17 Infection prevention and control
• 18 Recognizing and managing shock
• 19 Pain management
• 20 Maintaining fluid, electrolyte and acid-base balance
• 21 Nutrition and health
• 22 Tissue viability and managing chronic wounds
• 23 Maintaining continence
• Section 3: Nursing specific patient groups
• 24 Nursing the patient undergoing surgery
• 25 Nursing the patient who experiences trauma
• 26 Nursing the unconscious patient
• 27 Nursing the critically ill patient
• 28 Nursing the patient with burn injury
• 29 Nursing the patient with cancer
• 30 Care and rehabilitation of people with long-term conditions
• 31 Nursing patients who need palliative care
• 32 Nursing care for older patients
• 33 Nursing patients with sexually acquired infections and HIV/AIDS
• Appendix
• Glossary