Medical-Surgical Nursing: Patient-Centered Collaborative Care, Single Volume

by Donna D. Ignatavicius, M. Linda Workman

Using a uniquely collaborative and reader-friendly approach, expert authors Donna D. Ignatavicius and M. Linda Workman cover all the latest trends, evidence-based treatment guidelines, and additional updated information needed for safe clinical practice in medical-surgical nursing. This seventh edition features an expanded emphasis on patient safety and NCLEX? Examination preparation, new ties to the QSEN priorities for patient safety, and a greater alignment with the language and focus of clinical practice. A new chapter on evidence-based practice and a wealth of effective online learning tools help solidify your mastery of medical-surgical nursing.

Genres: Textbooks, Nursing

1968 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2009

About the author

Donna D. Ignatavicius, MS RN CNE CNEcl ANEF

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cry every night 😀

[Melissa Coe · Rating 1 out of 5]

Made me cry almost daily
I have many trauma responses from not knowing information in this book during clinical rotations
Don't read it for fun

[Bobbi Jo · Rating 2 out of 5]

There's only so much you can do for a book this size with subject matter this dense. It's encyclopedic. There are sections that do more concept explanations but much of the book winds up being almost a glossary of terms. It isn't organized alphabetically, though, but by body system. Further complicating its use as a reference, the index isn't comprehensive enough.
I have this book in digital and hardback forms and haven't found a way in the past 2 years of making it easy to read. The hardback physical version weighs 7 lbs. The weight of it actually impairs circulation to your legs if you read it in your lap. It's hard to find a bag that can carry it if you need to take it somewhere to study. The complications are endless. The kindle version can be clunky to navigate or gauge progress in because it considers sections within a chapter to be the actual chapter in certain devices (ie. the Kindle Paperwhite I bought so I wouldn't have to kill my eyes reading this and other such monsters). Imagine, you have '5 minutes left in the chapter' for 2 hours and find you've only just completed the first section of said chapter, which is only about 15% of the entire chapter.
As with any written work there are issues with formatting, grammar, word choice, and punctuation. It never makes me feel better to see a book with so many editions and reworks has at least as many errors as a book with only one or two editions. They've also made the expert decision to put answers to in chapter questions and chapter summaries online and not into the admittedly already excessively huge book. This makes things disjointed for me and adds unnecessary steps that I'm not going to take if I'm trying to conquer the reading required for a 20+ chapter exam.

All in all, I'm sure there are worst med/surg books but I can't say I enjoyed using this one at all.

[Jane · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was asked to review edition 8 by the Nursing Times Journal.

Description:

This is a review of the eighth edition of this medical-surgical text book. The text book is a comprehensive medical surgical text book. The first aspect that the reader will notice on the front cover is that this is reassuringly patient centred.


Highlights:

This is up to date and oozes evidence based practice through every page. There is a thread running through this of patient safety which is vital to today’s healthcare.

As it states on the tin, this is more than just a text book, and would urge the reader to active the complete learning experience by logging on to the website on the inside front cover to maximise the learning potential.

Strengths and weaknesses:

As stated above the book is full of evidence based practice and is set out in a reader friendly way. This is a text book that the nursing student will not find heavy going and too intense. The authors have understood the needs of the reader.
Not only has this book been developed with a multimedia ancillary package, it equips the
There is vast number of contributors and are specialists in there own rights. This textbook has been thought through thoroughly with a comprehensive review panel also.

The reader is encouraged to look in-depth at their practice and the clinical judgement sections give food for thought and give good prompts.

There is vast index, the illustrations are referenced and all referencing is up to date

Although this text book is written by and for nurses working in the States, this is essentially preparing students for the NCLEX examinations. This is equally apt for the adult nursing student studying towards their nursing degree in the UK. This must not be seen as a weakness.


Potential Readers:

Although this is written for the adult nursing student, this book would be a valuable resource for the whole nursing team. This would be an excellent resource on a ward.

This is a must book for the adult nursing student’s reading list.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has a lot of good information in it, but when I was reading it I had some seriously information overload and it made it difficult to get through. Very knowledgable resource, but don't plan on binge reading it the night before your class. This book is best read in small increments in my opinion.

[Angie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really thorough but not always applicable to real life clinical situations but I do like that it includes complementary and alternative medical treatments for patients!