Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care

Get a thorough review of medical-surgical nursing Concepts and Exemplars while developing your clinical judgment skills! Corresponding to Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care, 10th Edition, from Ignatavicius, Workman, Rebar, and Heimgartner, this Study Guide is thoroughly revised with a fresh emphasis on the Concepts and Exemplars featured in the textbook. It adds application-level NCLEX^(R) Exam-style questions and exercises, new NCLEX alternate item questions, and a completely new collection of Case Studies to prepare you for the Next Generation NCLEX Examination. With this practical study guide, you will prepare for NCLEX success and build the clinical reasoning skills you need for safe, effective nursing practice.

• Complete review of textbook content builds students' clinical nursing judgment skills and enhances their ability to make safe and effective clinical decisions.
• UNIQUE! Focus on interprofessional collaboration provides tips for coordinating care with other health professionals, and includes application of IPEC's Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice.
• Answer Key follows each chapter and adds new in-depth rationales for improved self-study and remediation.
• UNIQUE! Unparalleled emphasis on NCLEX^(R) Exam-style questions includes multiple-choice and multiple-select formats, familiarizing students with all NCLEX question formats to better prepare them for the NCLEX Examination.
• UNIQUE! Emphasis on the textbook's Concepts and Exemplar disorders focuses students on key medical-surgical nursing concepts and how they are exemplified in common disorders.

• NEW and UNIQUE! Focus on Concepts and Exemplars reflects the conceptual emphasis of the Ignatavicius textbook.
• NEW! Higher percentage of application-level NCLEX^(R) Exam-style questions is distributed throughout the chapters, plus additional NCLEX alternate item formats to help students develop clinical nursing judgment.
• NEW! Completely new collection of Next-Generation NCLEX^(R)-style Case Studies to develop students' clinical judgment skills and begin to prepare them for the Next-Generation NCLEX Exam (NGN).
• NEW! Detailed rationales in Answer Keys (now following each chapter) are provided for questions above the "Knowing" level of Bloom's taxonomy, for improved remediation and development of clinical nursing judgment consistent with the NGN.
• NEW! Updated content throughout matches the 10th edition of the Ignatavicius textbook for more efficient study of essential medical-surgical nursing knowledge.

Author: Donna D. Ignatavicius, Linda A. Lacharity, M. Linda Workman
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 11/23/2020
Pages: 656
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 10.80h x 8.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780323681476

About the Author
Ignatavicius, Donna D.: - Donna Ignatavicius is nationally recognized as an expert in nursing education and medical-surgical/gerontological nursing and has a wealth of experiences as a nurse educator, clinical nurse specialist, and administrator for over 40 years. Currently, she provides curriculum consultation and presentations for nursing faculty on topics such as concept-based curriculum, assessment of learning methods, and active learning strategies through her consulting company, DI Associates, Inc. Additionally, she is the primary author of numerous articles and books, including Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care, 10th ed. (2021) and her new student workbook, Developing Clinical Judgment for Professional Nursing and the Next-Generation NCLEX-RN(R) Examination. In 2007 she was inducted as a fellow into the prestigious Academy of Nursing Education (ANEF) for her national contribution to the field of nursing education. In 2016 she obtained her Certified Nurse Educator(R) (CNE) credential; in 2020 she obtained her Academic Clinical Nurse Educator (CNEcl) credential.