Medical-Surgical Nursing 6th
Edition Williams
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Unit 1 Understanding Health Care Issues
1. Critical Thinking and the Nursing Process
2. Evidence-Based Practice
3. Issues in Nursing Practice
4. Cultural Influences on Nursing Care
5. Complementary and Alternative
Modalities Unit 2 Understanding Health
and Illness
6. Nursing Care of Patients with Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Imbalances
7. Nursing Care of Patients Receiving Intravenous Therapy
8. Nursing Care of Patients with Infections
9. Nursing Care of Patients in Shock
10.Nursing Care of Patients in Pain
11.Nursing Care of Patients With Cancer
12.Nursing Care of Patients Having Surgery
, 13.Nursing Care of Patients with Emergent Conditions and
Disaster/Bioterrorism Response
Unit 3 Understanding Life Span Influences on Health and Illness
14.Developmental Considerations and Chronic Illness in the Nursing Care of
Adults
15.Nursing Care of Older Adult Patients
16.Patient Care Settings
17.Nursing Care of Patients at the End
of Life Unit 4 Understanding the
Immune System
18.Immune System Function, Assessment and Therapeutic Measures
19.Nursing Care of Patients With Immune Disorders
20.Nursing Care of Patients With HIV Disease and
AIDS Unit 5 Understanding the Cardiovascular
System
21.Cardiovascular System Function, Assessment and Therapeutic Measures
22.Nursing Care of Patients With Hypertension
23.Nursing Care of Patients With Valvular, Inflammatory and Infectious
Cardiac or Venous Disorders
24.Nursing Care of Patients With Occlusive Cardiovascular Disorders
25.Nursing Care of Patients With Cardiac Arrhythmias
26.Nursing Care of Patients With Heart Failure
Unit 6 Understanding the Hematologic and Lymphatic Systems
27.Hematologic and Lymphatic System Function, Assessment, and
Therapeutic Measures
28.Nursing Care of Patients With Hematologic and Lymphatic