LeMone and Burke's Medical-Surgical Nursing, Volumes 1-3 - 5th Edition

A practical, Australian nursing text

This resource develops the competencies and skills nursing students need to manage patients with complex conditions in the medical-surgical field.

LeMone & Burke's Medical-Surgical Nursing provides a comprehensive, contemporary, and consistent systems-based approach to medical-surgical nursing that engages students and provides the practical knowledge and skills they need to care for adult patients with a focus on person-centred, holistic clinical practice.

Students develop their understanding of theory and how this is applied in clinical practice with an emphasis on effective clinical reasoning and decision-making skills.

Key features

• Mapping to the NMBA (2016) Registered Nurse Standards for Practice maps examples from the text to relevant Registered Nurse Standards for Practice, thereby aligning the content to contemporary professional practice in Australia.
• Learning Outcomes show students the knowledge they'll gain, while Clinical Competencies demonstrate how they will apply that knowledge.
• Diagnostic Tests include diagnostic test tables and a narrative summary. The tables include the name of the test, the purpose and description of the test, and related nursing care.
• Pathophysiology Illustrated art brings physiological processes to life.
• Translation to Practice boxes focus on how research relates to current nursing care and application of evidence in clinical settings.
• Nursing Care sections detail the assessment and planning aspects relating to specific conditions and outline potential pain and risks.
• Fast Facts boxes highlight and summarise important data about the prevalence and incidence of selected disorders in Australia, and of other featured content.
• Focus on Cultural Diversity boxes present information that highlights the importance of acknowledging the dignity, culture, values, beliefs, and rights of people from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
• An end-of-unit review for each of the units, called Building Clinical Competence, synthesises what students have learned in the unit and applies the knowledge to specific cases.

New to this edition

• A new section, Essentials for Nurses: COVID-19, has been included as an Appendix to provide relevant information on the pandemic in Australia. COVID-19 icons throughout the main text indicate when readers should head to the Appendix to refer to this information.
• Light updates within the main text focus on the impacts of COVID-19 on clinical practice and patient care, specifically respiratory system (Unit 9), infection control (Chapter 11), self-care, burnout, and PPE.