Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Adrianne Dill Linton.
• Authors: Linton, Adrianne Dill
• Contents: Front cover; Inside front cover; Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing; Copyright page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contributors and Reviewers; LPN Advisory Board; To the Instructor; Organization; Key Features; Accessible Language; Key Terms with Phonetic Pronunciations; Nursing Diagnoses, Goals, and Outcome Criteria; Key Points; Boxed Features Content; Other Features; Updated Content Throughout; Multiple-Choice, Multiple-Response, and Short Answer Review Questions; Ancillaries; For the Instructor; Evolve Resources; For Students; Study Guide; Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0. Evolve ResourcesTo the Student; Key Features; Reading and Review Tools; Additional Learning Resources; Chapter Features; Table of Contents; Unit I Patient Care Concepts; 1 The Health Care System; Objectives; Key Terms; Organization of the Health Care System; Health Care Reform; Administration; Public Health; Primary Prevention.; Secondary Prevention.; Tertiary Prevention.; Components of the Health Care System; Outpatient Care; Physicians' Offices; Clinics; Health Maintenance Organizations; Ambulatory Surgery Centers (Outpatient or Day Surgery); Home Health Agencies. History of Home Health Care. Focus of Home Health Care.; Funding of Home Care Services.; Types of Home Care Agencies.; Voluntary Agencies.; Official Agencies.; Proprietary Agencies.; Hospital-Based Agencies.; Home Health Care Services.; Physical Therapy.; Speech Therapy.; Occupational Therapy.; Social Work Services.; Home Health Aide Services.; Homemaker Services.; Enterostomal and Wound Care Therapy.; Other Home Health Care Services.; Specialty Home Care Services.; Pediatric Home Care.; Mental Health Home Care.; Hospice; Adult Day Centers; Inpatient Care; Hospitals; Psychiatric Hospitals. Rehabilitation CentersLong-Term Care Facilities; Financing Health Care; Medicare; Medicaid; Nursing's Role in Cost Containment; Quality and Safety in Health Care; Get Ready for the NCLEX® Examination!; Key Points; Additional Learning Resources; Review Questions for the NCLEX® Examination; 2 Nursing in Varied Patient Care Settings; Objectives; Key Terms; Community and Home Health Nursing; Community Health Nursing; Community Health Nursing Roles; Community-Based Nursing; Home Health Nursing; Reimbursement Realities in Home Health Nursing; Physician Must Design or Authorize a Plan of Care. Care Must Be Skilled, Intermittent, Reasonable, and Necessary. Patient Must Be Homebound.; Home Health Agency Must Be Medicare Certified.; Types of Home Health Services; Skilled Nursing.; Skilled Observation and Assessment.; Teaching.; Performing Skilled Procedures.; Specialty Home Care; Intravenous Therapy.; Ventilator Therapy.; Communication Between Home Health Care Team Members; Documentation.; Case Conferences.; Rehabilitation; Rehabilitation Concepts; Rehabilitation Is a Process of Restoration; Impairment Is a Disturbance in Functioning; Disability Is a Measurable Loss of Function.
• Edition: 6th
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Saunders
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (1408 pages)
• Subjects: 617/.0231; Nursing; Surgical nursing; Nursing Care; Nursing Process; Nursing; Surgical nursing; Nursing; Surgical nursing; MEDICAL / Surgery / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780323295338; 0323295339
• Related ISBNs: 9781455776412; 1455776416
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.