Nursing & Health Sciences Guide

This award-winning nursing reference represents the state of the art in nursing science. Comprehensive and concise, entries provide the most relevant and current research perspectives and demonstrate the depth and breadth of nursing research today. This one-stop reference presents key terms and concepts and clarifies their application to practice.

Make sense of complex medical terms with this comprehensive reference, which includes more than 56,000 authoritative definitions along with 2,450 illustrations.

The 1,316 entries in this encyclopedia describe major diseases and disorders of the human body, the basics of human anatomy and physiology, specializations in medical practice, and common surgical and nonsurgical procedures.

This book introduces students and researchers to the fundamentals of nursing using easy to understand language that provides a solid background for a deeper understanding and appreciation of this crucial profession.

Providing context to today's public health practices and broad coverage of topics, this encyclopedia contains a wealth of information on critical theories, people, and movements and shows how various disciplines can work together to create healthy communities and practices for many people.