The illustrations provide some of the best quality and most varied examples of skin conditions important to any health care pforessional dealing with skin problems.

    Now in full color for easier referencing, this New Edition continues the tradition, incorporating a wealth of exciting updates and changes-ensuring you have access to today's authoritative knowledge to best diagnose and treat every pediatric patient you see. Whether you're treating patients in the office or in the hospital, or preparing for the boards, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 18th Edition is your comprehensive guide to providing the best possible care.Get an enhanced focus on general pediatrics with editorial contributions from new editor Dr. Bonita F. Stanton.Treat your inpatient and ambulatory patients more effectively with the absolute latest on new topics such as quality improvement and patient care safety . school violence and bullying . preventive measures . vitamin deficiencies . adolescent rape . effect of war on children . and more.Improve your therapeutic skills with the newest knowledge on the principles of antibiotic therapy . antiviral therapy . antiparasitic therapy . antimycobacterial therapy . and others.Understand the principles of therapy and which drugs and dosages to prescribe for every disease.Locate key content more easily and identify clinical conditions quicker thanks to a new full-color design and full-color photographs.Get an enhanced focus on general pediatrics with editorial contributions from new editor Dr. Bonita F. Stanton.Treat your inpatient and ambulatory patients more effectively with the absolute latest on new topics such as quality improvement and patient care safety *school violence and bullying * preventive measures * vitamin deficiencies * adolescent rape * effect of war on children * and more.Improve your therapeutic skills with the newest knowledge on the principles of antibiotic therapy * antiviral therapy * antiparasitic therapy * antimycobacterial therapy * and others.Understand the principles of therapy and which drugs and dosages to prescribe for every disease.Locate key content more easily and identify clinical conditions quicker thanks to a new full-color design and full-color photographs.

    It covers nearly seventy years of practice from World War II to the present day.The extraordinary situations described here are the result of more than 1,000 years of hands-on bedside knowledge. The vignettes contain wisdom and insight gained the hard way, from long experience in the trenches (sometimes in actual trenches) performing tasks that range from the most humble to the most skilled.These true stories run the gamut from birth to death. They deal with everything from war, ER, ICU, to childbirth, pediatrics, adult care, surgery, home and homeless healthcare, the psych ward, oncology, the nursing home, and finally hospice.The sacrifice and service of these nurses--their courage, kindness, and determination--is breathtaking.If you've ever wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes of a hospital--you've come to the right place.

    This class-tested and successful textbook synthesizes the established facts of immunology into a comprehensible, coherent, and up-to-date account of how the immune system works, rather than presenting immunology as a chronology of experiments and discoveries. Emphasizing the human immune system the text has been designed to break down the barriers which often divide basic and clinical immunology. The reader-friendly text, section and chapter summaries, and full-color illustrations make the book accessible and easily understandable to students. The Immune System is adapted from Immunobiology by Janeway, Travers & Walport.

    The Twelfth Edition's hallmark continues to be its pioneering integration of the proven-effective SQ4R learning system (Survey, Question, Read, Reflect, Review, Recite), which promotes critical thinking as it guides students step-by-step to an understanding of psychology's broad concepts and diversity of topics. Throughout every chapter, these active learning tools—together with the book's example-laced writing style, discussions of positive psychology, cutting-edge coverage of the field's new research findings, and excellent media resources—ensure that students find the study of psychology fascinating, relevant, and above all, accessible.

    Adam Brochert, MD-who scored in the 99th percentile on the Step 2 USMLE-and Theodore X. O'Connell, MD-author of several review and clinical reference books-present essential questions and answers covering the important concepts you need to know to score well on the USMLE Step 2 exam: key conditions you will be expected to recognize, all specialty and subspecialty topics, and necessary clinical concepts.Learn the most important questions and answers with the proven format of the highly acclaimed Secrets Series.Master all specialty and subspecialty topics covered on Step 2.Identify key facts and secrets using the Top 100 Secrets chapter.Review material quickly and easily thanks to bulleted lists, algorithms, and illustrations.Apply the pearls, tips, memory aids, and secrets from well-known and highly popular authors, Adam Brochert, MD and Theodore X. O'Connell, MD. Find information quickly with a second color highlighting chapter and section titles, legends, bullets and icons, and key terms.Consult the book wherever you go thanks to the portable size that fits in your lab coat pocket.

    Conrad Fischer presents the only full-color USMLE guide on the market to cover the clinical conditions and patient management scenarios tested on the Step 2 CK exam.New from best-selling USMLE author and award-winning medical educator, Dr. Conrad Fischer, comes the only full-color USMLE guide on the market to present the clinical conditions and patient care scenarios encountered on the Step 2 Clinical Knowledge exam. Students take the USMLE Step 2 CK Exam during their final year of medical school. The Step 2 Clinical Knowledge is a multiplechoice exam designed to determine whether the examinee possesses the medical knowled.0ge and understanding of clinical science considered essential for the provision of patient care under supervision. Kaplan Medical USMLE Master the Boards Step 2 CK is the first book that covers the content of the exam in a logical and methodical fashion, emphasizing several categories of residency including:A logical step-by-step approach to patient careAn assessment of severity, prognosis, and next course of action for specific conditionsHow to prioritize while managing, especially in emergency or acute casesAn outline of signs/symptoms and diagnostic or lab tests that signify the need for change in management approaches

    This is one of those funny, grotesque books you won’t forget that’s written by a nurse with a penis (you’re going to have to be able to take a joke that’s racial, bigoted, or otherwise extreme). Interested? Read on. Most “humorous” nursing books out there are injected with weak humor in an attempt to make the nursing profession look good. I, on the other hand, inject nursing with black humor. I don’t pretend there’s anything special about nursing, and I don’t try to sell this profession. In fact, once you’re done reading you’ll likely think twice before enrolling in a nursing school. I just tell it how it is. I follow only one rule: go to where the pain is. Through ten stories, I reveal the inner thoughts of male nurses and the unique challenges they face being minorities in a backdrop of vaginas and estrogen. At the end of each story, I share coaching tips. I've been a male nurse for several years and want to share my most interesting adventures and insights. I've also asked the following questions as guide posts: What do men really need to know about nursing? What can I share to add value to people considering nursing as a career? What would I have wanted to know when I was 18 years old? How could I express what people need to know, not what they want to know? Whether you’re a nursing student struggling with touching anuses or a 40 year old thinking that becoming a nurse will make life meaningful, you will find value in this book. Heck, even a nurse practitioner with a business practice will find timeless advice. I quit nursing, only to come back again. Here are some stories and lessons along the way.

    More than 1,000 multiple-choice questions provide a thorough review of medical-surgical nursing, including health promotion, assessment, and disorders of the cardiovascular, respiratory, neurosensory, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, endocrine, musculoskeletal, integumentary, and hematologic and immune systems. Users choose from three animated games for stress-free learning. For hard-to-answer questions, Nurse Joy offers helpful hints. Includes rationales for correct and incorrect responses. Call 1-800-326-1685 for Hosp/Govt/HealthCare, 1-800-399-3110 Univ./Colleges

    Cole's harrowing account of his life spent in the ER and on the battlegrounds, fighting to save lives. In addition to his gripping stories of treating victims of gunshot wounds, stabbings, attempted suicides, flesh-eating bacteria, car crashes, industrial accidents, murder, and war, the book also covers the years during Cole's residency training when he was faced with 120-hour work weeks, excessive sleep deprivation, and the pressures of having to manage people dying of traumatic injury, often with little support.Unlike the authors of other medical memoirs, Cole trained to be a surgeon in the military and served as a physician member of a Marine Corps reconnaissance unit, United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), and on a Navy Reserve SEAL team. From treating war casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq to his experiences as a civilian trauma surgeon treating alcoholics, drug addicts, criminals, and the mentally deranged, TRAUMA is an intense look at one man's commitment to his country and to those most desperately in need of aid.

    Translated into eight languages, it is an essential textbook, an accessible reference, and a bestselling text worldwide.This authoritative textbook retains the successful layout and approach of the bestselling fourth edition Four extra chapters have been added on dry eye, scleritis, corneal and refractive surgery, and systemic diseases.Each chapter have been updated and expanded and the number of illustrations greatly increased.Over a third of the illustrations are new for this editionFour extra chapters have been added on dry eye, scleritis, corneal and refractive surgery, and systemic diseases.The contents of each chapter have been updated and expanded and the number of illustrations has significantly increased.

    But time in the wards is limited, and clerkship covers only a tiny sample of the surgical universe. Dr. Pestana's Surgery Notes, by distinguished surgery instructor Dr. Carlos Pestana, is a proven guide to ensure your surgical knowledge. With a concise, comprehensive review and 180 high-yield surgical vignettes for self-testing, it contains the surgery knowledge you need to excel on the Surgery shelf exam and USMLE Step 2 CK.Features:— Concise high-yield review of core surgery material— 180 vignettes for self-testing— Used by med students for over a decade— Fully up-to-date— Pocket-sized to carry with you in the wards

    And no delay causes more parental anxiety than late talking, which is associated in many parents' minds with such serious conditions as autism and severe intellectual disability. In fact, as children's speech expert Stephen Camarata points out in this enlightening book, children are late in beginning to talk for a wide variety of reasons. For some children, late talking may be a symptom of other, more serious, problems; for many others, however, it may simply be a stage with no long-term complications.Camarata describes in accessible language what science knows about the characteristics and causes of late talking. He explains that late talking is only one of a constellation of autism symptoms. Although all autistic children are late talkers, not all late-talking children are autistic.Camarata draws on more than twenty-five years of professional experience diagnosing and treating late talkers--and on his personal experience of being a late talker himself and having a late-talking son. He provides information that will help parents navigate the maze of doctors, speech therapists, early childhood services, and special education; and he describes the effect that late talking may have on children's post-talking learning styles.

    It includes even more new monographs and the latest FDA approvals. This updated edition is a book that students can count on with vital information for Peds, as well as precautions for all vulnerable populations. From pediatrics to geriatrics and from pregnancy to breast feeding considerations, "Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses" addresses the entire lifespan.

    The Seventh Edition has been updated with stronger coverage of evidence-based practice, including content on how to read, interpret, and critique systematic reviews, which are considered by many to be a cornerstone of evidence-based practice. Also included in the Seventh Edition: a more balanced presentation of medical and social science methods and nomenclature; enhanced coverage of qualitative research; and more!