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This popular text, now in full color, provides information on today's nursing practices, patient/family education and health promotion and prevention. MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING CONCEPTS AND CLINICAL PRACTICE is well known for its solid, balanced presentation of medical and nursing management issues and thoroughly detailed content on diagnosing and treating major adult illnesses. The sixth edition includes entire chapters on cultural care nursing in a diverse health care arena, home care considerations, gerontologic care and other timely issues. You also receive FREE an exciting, interactive CD-ROM with critical thinking exercises, case studies, NCLEX review questions, and a vocabulary review with sound pronunciations.<br> <br> * Employs a consistent 5-step nursing process to encourage students to use problem solving skills in practice * Includes nursing care plans that allow students to test their knowledge in clinical situations * Dedicates an entire chapter to basic home care issues and includes home care considerations within the discussion of appropriate medical conditions * Dedicates an entire chapter to gerontologic issues and includes important considerations within presentation of major conditions * Integrates research boxes throughout the text to provide useful applications of today's nursing practices * Provides a computerized test bank for flexibility in creating tests<br> <br> (Includes FREE CD-ROM and MERLIN website at:www.harcourthealth.com/Mosby/Phipps/)