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Ankner, a senior nurse coordinator who taught medical-surgical nursing at the U. of Massachusetts Dartmouth, collects 43 medical-surgical case studies written by nurses and based on real-life client situations. Organized by body system (reorganized from head to toe), they progress from easy to difficult, and each has a table of variables encountered in practice, such as gender, age, setting, ethnicity, preexisting conditions, and cultural, pharmacologic, legal, ethical, and other considerations. These are followed by client history, current condition, clinical setting, the professionals involved, and questions. This edition updates cases to reflect new practices; includes four new cases on Bell's palsy, glaucoma, renal calculi, and septic shock; and updates nursing diagnoses to reflect the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) International's Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions and Classifications 2009-2011. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
