Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

• Comprehensive, authoritative definitions - including major diseases, disorders, procedures, and drugs - offer the most accurate, complete information available.
• Nearly 2,500 colorful photographs and drawings illustrate all subject areas - more than 800 new!
• Large, clear type is easy to read.
• Pronunciations and eponyms for key entries assist the reader in learning and using terminology in everyday practice.
• British spellings of selected entries help users recognize alternate spellings.
• Helpful tables provide essential information at a glance.
• Color Atlas of Human Anatomy contains dozens of clearly labeled drawings.
• Hundreds of lab test definitions describe and explain key lab tests.
• A companion Evolve website provides hundreds of web links to help you find authoritative information online, as well as content updates and other helpful resources.

• 5,000 new definitions have been added, representing all areas of nursing, medicine, and the health-related professions, with special emphasis on definitions related to new drugs, health professions, changes in health care delivery, bioterrorism, and new technological developments.
• More than 10,000 definitions have been updated and revised to reflect current practice.
• All nursing diagnosis entries reflect the 2005-2006 NANDA terminology and the newest information for NIC and NOC.
• New and updated appendices cover JCAHO changes in documentation, functional health patterns, new nutritional information, and much more.
• Selected definitions - particularly those for major diseases, disorders, and procedures - have been expanded to enable the user to obtain detailed information quickly from a single source.
• Expanded definitions of over 70 additional conditions now contain full, detailed nursing process information.
• Updated, expanded drug entries include specific drugs currently on the market.
• New colored entry words and convenient thumb indexing make searching easier.
• All tables have been updated, and more than 800 illustrations have been replaced or updated.
• A new companion CD-ROM with helpful tools, including over 400 medical terminology questions, a printable Spanish-English phrasebook, an audio glossary containing pronunciations of over 25,000 terms, a full retail version of Medical Spellchecker software, and more.