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• Connects key concepts to practice and patient care for the diseases and disorders that will be encountered most frequently in practice.
• Promotes critical thinking and clinical judgment by emphasizing the ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ of clinical presentation and treatment plans.
• Focuses on the patient-centered role of the nurse, with clear and well-defined nursing coverage.
  • Presents Nursing Management clearly and consistently using the nursing process to identify and reinforce the nurse's responsibilities as a member of an inter-professional care team.
  • Organizes Nursing Interventions into ‘Assessments,’ ‘Action,’ and ‘Teaching’ categories with rationales relating back to the underlying physiology and pathophysiology.
• Incorporates the critical care content important for new nurses.

Davis Advantage—Personalized Learning and Quizzing

• Personalized Learning
  • Creates personalized learning plans tailored to students’ individual needs to help them build a strong foundation and make the connections to Med-Surg topics.
  • Reinforces learning and engages students through videos and interactive activities to drive mastery.
  • Tracks students’ progress every step of the way; students know exactly how they’re doing and where they need to focus their studies.
• Davis Edge Quizzing
  • Challenges students to think at higher cognitive levels with over 2,000 NCLEX^®-style questions that align with the Medical-Surgical Nursing text with page references.
  • Includes self-grading that provides immediate feedback as each quiz is completed.
  • Promotes in-depth understanding and comprehension with comprehensive rationales for both correct and incorrect responses.
  • Builds students' confidence for the difficult alternate-format questions, including ‘select all that apply’ and ‘ordered response’.
  • Prepares students for course exams, ATI, HESI, and NCLEX^® exams with test-taking strategies and tips.
• Makes studying and reviewing on the go even easier with access to the ebook version of the text.