This book covers both medical-surgical and psychiatric mental health conditions and disorders while building on the fundamentals of nursing. This essential text focuses on nursing roles, settings, trends, body systems and their disorders, and emergency and disaster management.

Previous edition titled: Introduction to medical-surgical nursing.

Medical surgical nursing -- Populations receiving medical-surgical care -- Pathology processes and effects -- Special problems of the older adult patient -- Therapeutics -- Neurologic system -- Respiratory system -- Hematologic and immunolgic systems -- Cardiovascular system -- Digestive system -- Urologic system -- Musculoskeletal system -- Endocrine system -- Reproductive system -- Integumentary system -- Special senses -- Medical-surgical patients with psychiatric disorders.