Keeping tomorrow’s nurses at the forefront of today’s changing healthcare environment, Brunner & Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 15th Edition delivers the most comprehensive resource available for nursing students in the medical-surgical course. This bestselling text is designed for the way students like to learn, combining a highly readable approach with engaging case studies and learning tools to help students explore essential patient care practices in real-world terms and gain a more practical understanding of how they’ll apply what they’ve learned in practice.

Trusted by instructors, students, and practicing nurses for nearly 60 years, this landmark resource has been comprehensively updated for the 15th Edition to reflect the latest research, evidence-based practices, settings, issues, ethical challenges, and concerns of today’s healthcare practice. Complete integration with Lippincott® CoursePoint+ allows you to easily map out your entire course, provide personalized student remediation, and simulate real-world nursing scenarios involving patients mentioned in vignettes in the text, giving your students unparalleled preparation for success in the medical-surgical nursing workforce.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Unit 1. Principles of nursing practice -- Unit 2. Concepts and principles of patient management -- Unit 3. Perioperative concepts and nursing management -- Unit 4. Gas exchange and respiratory function -- Unit 5. Cardiovascular and circulatory function -- Unit 6. Hematologic function -- Unit 7. Immunologic function -- Unit 8. Musculoskeletal function -- Unit 9. Digestive and gastrointestinal function -- Unit 10. Metabolic and endocrine function -- Unit 11. Kidney and urinary tract function -- Unit 12. Reproductive function -- Unit 13. Integumentary function -- Unit 14. Sensory function -- Unit 15. Neurologic function -- Unit 16. Acute community-based challenges

Keeping tomorrow's nurses at the forefront of today's changing healthcare environment, Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 15th Edition delivers the most comprehensive resource available for nursing students in the medical-surgical course. This bestselling text is designed for the way students like to learn, combining a highly readable approach with engaging case studies and learning tools to help students explore essential patient care practices in real-world terms and gain a more practical understanding of how they'll apply what they've learned in practice