Includes Index.

Contents: Factors that affect medical-surgical nursing: Patient/family education -- cancer -- Care of the elderly medical-surgical patient -- Behavioral health -- Nutrition -- Immobility -- Pain -- Fluid/Electrolyte/Acid base imbalances -- Shock -- End of life issues -- Perioperative nursing care -- Complementary,alternative and integrative therapies -- Disaster planning -- Nursing assessment and alterations:The gastrointestinal system -- The respiratory system -- The cardio/vascular system -- The endocrine system -- Diabetes -- The renal and urologic systems -- The reproductive system -- The neurologic system -- The musculoskeletal system -- The Hematologic system -- The immune system -- Infectious disease -- The integumentary system -- Professionalism:Domains of nursing practice -- Achieving excellence in medical-surgical nursing.