Select the right medical-surgical resource for your course
Designed to meet the complex demands of medical-surgical nursing courses, these resources offer students new and expanded content with an emphasis on clinical judgment skills and diverse patient populations.
Brunner & Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 16th Edition
Janice L. Hinkle, PhD, RN, CNRN; Kristin J. Overbaugh, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC; Kerry H. Cheever, PhD, RN; Carolyn E. Bradley, DNP, RN, CCRN
2025
For nearly six decades, the trusted resource for medical-surgical nursing education has prepared students for practice. The 16th Edition continues this legacy with a streamlined, nursing-centered focus on clinical judgment and essential competencies.
- UPDATED! Clinical Judgment Alerts spotlight potential errors at critical decision points to reinforce safe practice habits before students enter clinical settings.
- UPDATED! Clinical Judgment Exercises aligned with NCSBN’s Clinical Judgment Measurement Model enhance NCLEX® prep by building skills to prioritize care in complex scenarios and fostering evidence-based practice in collaborative settings.
- UPDATED! CoursePoint+ interactive tutorials and Practice & Learn interactive case studies provide review and application for key foundational knowledge topics.
- Nursing Process sections use a practice-standard framework to guide students through systematic patient care, building critical thinking skills essential for clinical decision-making.
- Assessment and pharmacology charts simplify patient data collection and medication details, boosting diagnostic reasoning, medication safety, and understanding of drug interactions and nursing implications.
- Unfolding Patient Stories mirror vSim® for Nursing, reinforcing understanding and smoothing the transition from classroom to simulation.
Medical-Surgical Nursing: Focus on Clinical Judgment, 3rd Edition
Linda Honan, RN, PhD, CNS-BC ANEF, FAAN
2024
Dr. Linda Honan combines her dual expertise as a clinical educator and clinician to develop effective content tailored to what practicing nurses must know with innovative techniques. This ensures the material is relevant, up-to-date, and student-focused, enhancing the learning experience.
- Pearls for Practice delivers the author’s personalized all-important tips and warnings drawn from her extensive clinical experience to deepen students’ understanding and prepare them for practice.
- Integrated coverage of the AACN’s Essentials reinforces the four “spheres” of nursing care throughout the text.
- Lifting the Lens features broaden students’ awareness of societal issues impacting patients, their diseases, and communities.
- Integrated DEI and Social Determinants of Health coverage (SDOH): By seamlessly integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) alongside social and political determinants of health, the book prepares students for modern patient care needs.
Lippincott® CoursePoint+ for Medical-Surgical Nursing
Lippincott CoursePoint+ is the leading digital curriculum learning solution for nursing education, featuring an interactive eBook, adaptive learning, virtual simulations, and a trusted clinical decision support tool widely adopted by nurse employers. For educators, it offers flexible implementation and detailed reporting to personalize instruction and support student success.
Feature highlights
- Interactive eBook provides students with anytime, anywhere access to their title, along with tools to take notes and highlight text, and a read-aloud feature for added convenience.
- NEW! One-Minute Nurse videos simplify complex nursing concepts into quick, digestible videos to enhance understanding and retention.
- Lippincott® Advisor offers students access to a point-of-care decision tool commonly used in real-world nursing practice.
- vSim® for Nursing builds students’ confidence and sharpens clinical judgment through realistic virtual simulations.
Boost learning by providing practice opportunities
Enhance your course by incorporating these learning tools and manage your course easily, all in one platform with single sign-on. Talk to your sales representative about enhancements including LMS integration.
Lippincott® Client Cases for Clinical Judgment
Encourage thoughtful practice in patient care. Build a clinical judgment mindset across the curriculum with cognitive practice in hundreds of realistic and complex patient scenarios across 17 areas in an unfolding EHR introducing students to the realities of decision making about patient care.
Lippincott® DocuCare
Lippincott® DocuCare gives students hands-on experience with realistic charting and workflows modeled after leading EHR systems. With 400 customizable patient records, robust clinical decision support, and clinically realistic simulation updates, all in a user-friendly course management platform. Students build clinical judgment along with charting and communication skills that today’s healthcare employers expect and patients need.
vSim® for Nursing*
Deliver the most realistic and up-to-date experience available with expert-authored virtual simulations co-developed by Laerdal Medical and scenarios written by National League for Nursing. vSim® for Nursing provides real-world, evidence-based scenarios with built-in point-of-care solutions for reference and remediation to hone students’ clinical judgment, competence, and confidence. *Included in CoursePoint+
vrClinicals for Nursing
Enhance clinical decision-making skills with virtual experiences that immerse students in realistic, multi-patient care scenarios in a safe setting that prepares them for the demands of practice.
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