Practical Symptom Nursing (Second Edition)

Author: Dai Baozhen
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: While maintaining the original writing style, it strives to embody the people-centered holistic nursing philosophy, promoting the perfect integration of modern nursing theory and clinical practice. The book is organized around symptoms, covering 31 common symptoms in clinical disciplines such as internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics, pediatrics, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, psychiatry, and psychology. Each symptom is presented in a separate chapter. Each chapter is divided into two sections: Section Overview, which provides a comprehensive description of the symptom from medical and clinical nursing perspectives, including its definition, causes and mechanisms, clinical manifestations, impact on the body and mind, and principles of management; Section Nursing, which introduces methods for nursing assessment, nursing goals, corresponding nursing measures, and health education content based on the presence of the symptom, its severity, causes, and impact on the patient's body and mind. It emphasizes and highlights the people-centered holistic nursing philosophy and the application of the nursing process in clinical nursing. The book features an innovative structure, concise content, and fully reflects the new concepts, methods, theories, and advancements in clinical nursing. It can serve as a textbook for undergraduate and associate degree nursing programs and as an elective textbook for students in other disciplines.