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Designed to effectively transition today’s students into tomorrow’s practice-ready nurses, Medical-Surgical Nursing: Focus on Clinical Judgment, 3rd Edition broadens students’ perspectives, cultivates their clinical judgment, and prepares them for the challenges of today’s evolving medical-surgical nursing field.

Authored by nurse scholar and clinical educator Linda Honan, PhD, RN, her innovative approach distills complex concepts down to need-to-know details through the perspective of practicing nurses, establishing a comprehensive foundation through the most commonly encountered conditions and situations.

Every chapter of this 3rd Edition has been revised and updated with an emphasis on inclusivity, incorporating bias-free, gender-neutral language and walking students through the NCSBN’s Clinical Judgment Measurement Model with Next Gen NCLEX® questions and case studies.

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Interview excerpt from Innovation in Nursing Education Practice: A Conversation with Linda Honan 
I wanted the patient's body to be seen as a piece of artwork where everything was observed and then they needed to practice clustering their observations of either what they were seeing or what was absent that they should have seen, right? And then clustered those things to come up with some options for, ‘What do you think is happening with the patient?’
Linda Honan, RN, PhD, CNS-BC, ANEF, FAAN
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Medical-Surgical Nursing: Focus on Clinical Judgment, 3rd Edition

A comprehensive update by expert clinicians, the 3rd Edition incorporates nurse educator Dr. Linda Honan's innovative approach to med-surg curriculum, using bias-free, gender-neutral language, revised LGBTQ+ content, updated determinants of health, and AACN’s 2021 Essentials coverage.

  • Updated content throughout the text familiarizes students with the latest clinical approaches and perspectives in medical-surgical nursing.
  • Pearls for Practice delivers in 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 2021 Essentials reinforces the four “spheres” of nursing care throughout the text: health promotion/ disease prevention, chronic disease care, regenerative or restorative care, and hospice/palliative/supportive care.
  • Bias-free, gender-neutral language and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) coverage equips students with a perspective on patient care essential to today’s nursing practice.
  • End-of-Chapter questions in NexGen (NGN) reflect the Next Generation NCLEX® testing format for enhanced exam preparation and test-taking confidence.
  • Clinical Judgment Cases Studies let students work through NCSBN’s Clinical Judgment Measurement Model to hone essential decision-making skills.
  • Lifting the Lens features broaden students’ awareness of the societal issues impacting patients, their diseases, and communities.

Dr. Linda Honan is a clinical educator and scholar dedicated to understanding and developing effective and innovative techniques for clinical education. In Medical-Surgical Nursing: Focus on Clinical Judgment, 3rd Edition, Dr. Honan applies her extensive experience and presents a comprehensive perspective on the most common medical-surgical conditions and situations encountered by practicing nurses.

Dr. Honan has taught in Yale’s GEPN Program since 1989. She is responsible for Medical Surgical Nursing didactic, Applied Anatomy, and is Associate Director for Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience (ILCE) for Yale School of Nursing, Yale School of Medicine, and the Yale Physician Associate Program.

She obtained her nursing diploma from the Meriden-Wallingford Hospital School of Nursing, a BSN from Southern Connecticut State University, her MSN from Yale School of Nursing, and her PhD at the University of Connecticut.

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