Approx. 2096 pages

Pathophysiology, medical management, and nursing management are presented authoritatively.
Patient and family teaching are emphasized.
Content on collaborative management stresses the importance of collaboration in care.
Health promotion and prevention are integrated throughout to stress the importance of ongoing care.
Guidelines for Safe Practice boxes provide step by step instructions.
Common Medications tables summarize key drug group information and nursing considerations.
Clinical Manifestations boxes are integrated throughout and summarize important indications.
Gerontologic Considerations boxes provide unique elements to consider in the care of the older adult.
Risk Factor boxes alert the student to important considerations in the care of specific conditions.
Research boxes are integrated throughout to provide applications to today's nursing practice.
Actual examples of 18 Clinical Pathways provide samples of this collaborative clinical tool.
Healthy People 2010 boxes include the most up-to-date health promotion and prevention objectives.
Future Watch boxes alert readers to topics on the horizon like genetics and gender-based medicine.
Complementary & Alternative Therapies are integrated throughout to provide important alternatives to traditional techniques.
Nursing Care Plans that use NANDA nursing diagnoses, NIC priority interventions for specific conditions, and NOC suggested outcomes guide readers in selecting nursing activities.
Evidence-Based Practice boxes throughout emphasize the importance of applying research to practice.
Community-Based Care is introduced in a new chapter and incorporated, wherever appropriate.

Nursing Management sections have been reorganised for clearer correlation of nursing diagnoses, appropriate patient goals and outcomes, and associated interventions.
Preparing for Practice boxes in select chapters are linked to a new interactive clinical setting on the Companion CD. Students have the opportunity to use critical thinking skills and clinical judgment to care for patients within a simulated hospital setting.
New and expanded chapters related to genetics and disease, emerging infections and bioterrorism, palliative care, and rehabilitation.
Are You Ready? boxes sprinkled throughout the text test students' mastery of content just covered, building a knowledge base.
Ethical Alert boxes discuss current ethical issues that nurses face in clinical practice including decision-making, genetic testing and therapy, and forced immunization.
Legal Alert boxes discuss critical legal considerations including protocol for medical and nursing interventions, patient consent for treatment or testing, and duty to warn.
Key terms with page number references are listed at the beginning of each chapter and marked with bold in the text narrative.