Lewis's Medical-Surgical Nursing in Canada, 5th Edition

• Easy-to-understand content is written and reviewed by leading experts in the field, ensuring that information is comprehensive, current, and clinically accurate.
• More than 800 full-colour illustrations and photographs demonstrate disease processes and related anatomy and physiology.
• Focus on key areas includes the determinants of health, patient and caregiver teaching, age-related considerations, collaborative care, cultural considerations, nutrition, home care, evidence-informed practice, and patient safety.
• Nursing Assessment chapters focus on individual body systems and include a brief review of related anatomy and physiology, a discussion of health history and non-invasive physical assessment skills, and note common diagnostic studies, expected results, and related nursing responsibilities.
• Unfolding case studies in each assessment chapter help you apply important concepts and procedures to real-life patient care.
• UNIQUE! Levels of Care approach organizes nursing management into three levels: health promotion, acute intervention, and ambulatory and home care.
• Nursing Management chapters focus on the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, laboratory and diagnostic study results, interprofessional care, and nursing management of various diseases and disorders, and are organized to follow the steps of the nursing process (assessment, nursing diagnoses, planning, implementation, and evaluation).
• Safety Alerts and Drug Alerts highlight important safety issues in patient care.
• Informatics boxes discuss the importance and use of technology with topics such as use of social media in the context of patient privacy, teaching patients to manage self-care using smartphone apps, and using Smart infusion pumps.
• Cultural Competence and Health Equity in Nursing Care chapter discusses culture as a determinant of health, especially in regard to Indigenous populations; health equity and health equality issues as they relate to marginalized groups in Canada; and practical suggestions for developing cultural competence in nursing care.
• More than 60 comprehensive nursing care plans on the Evolve website include defining characteristics, expected outcomes, specific nursing interventions with rationales, evaluation criteria, and collaborative problems.

By Jane Tyerman, RN, BA, BScN, MScN, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.; Shelley Cobbett, RN, BN, GnT, MN, EdD, Assistant Professor; Nursing and BScN Site Administrator, School of Nursing – Yarmouth Campus, Dalhousie University, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; Mariann M. Harding, PhD, RN, CNE, FAADN, Nursing Program Director and Professor of Nursing, Kent State University Tuscarawas, United States; Jeffrey Kwong, DNP, MPH, AGPCNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, Professor, Division of Advanced Nursing Practice, School of Nursing, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey; Dottie Roberts, RN, EdD, MSN, MACI, OCNS-C, CMSRN, CNE, Instructor, University of South Carolina College of Nursing, Columbia, South Carolina; Debra Hagler, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CNE, CHSE, ANEF, FAAN, Clinical Professor, Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University, United States and Courtney Reinisch, RN, DNP, FNP-BC, Director of Undergraduate Nursing, School of Nursing, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey