LeMone and Burke's Medical-Surgical Nursing, Volumes 1-3

A practical, Australian nursing text

This resource develops the competencies and skills nursing students need to manage patients with complex conditions in the medical-surgical field.

LeMone & Burke's Medical-Surgical Nursing provides a comprehensive, contemporary, and consistent systems-based approach to medical-surgical nursing that engages students and provides the practical knowledge and skills they need to care for adult patients with a focus on person-centred, holistic clinical practice.

Students develop their understanding of theory and how this is applied in clinical practice with an emphasis on effective clinical reasoning and decision-making skills.

Key features

• Mapping to the NMBA (2016) Registered Nurse Standards for Practice maps examples from the text to relevant Registered Nurse Standards for Practice, thereby aligning the content to contemporary professional practice in Australia.
• Learning Outcomes show students the knowledge they'll gain, while Clinical Competencies demonstrate how they will apply that knowledge.
• Diagnostic Tests include diagnostic test tables and a narrative summary. The tables include the name of the test, the purpose and description of the test, and related nursing care.
• Pathophysiology Illustrated art brings physiological processes to life.
• Translation to Practice boxes focus on how research relates to current nursing care and application of evidence in clinical settings.
• Nursing Care sections detail the assessment and planning aspects relating to specific conditions and outline potential pain and risks.
• Fast Facts boxes highlight and summarise important data about the prevalence and incidence of selected disorders in Australia, and of other featured content.
• Focus on Cultural Diversity boxes present information that highlights the importance of acknowledging the dignity, culture, values, beliefs, and rights of people from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
• An end-of-unit review for each of the units, called Building Clinical Competence, synthesises what students have learned in the unit and applies the knowledge to specific cases.

New to this edition

• A new section, Essentials for Nurses: COVID-19, has been included as an Appendix to provide relevant information on the pandemic in Australia. COVID-19 icons throughout the main text indicate when readers should head to the Appendix to refer to this information.
• Light updates within the main text focus on the impacts of COVID-19 on clinical practice and patient care, specifically respiratory system (Unit 9), infection control (Chapter 11), self-care, burnout, and PPE.

About the Authors

Gerene Bauldoff is a Professor of Clinical Nursing at The Ohio State University College of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio. She has been a nurse educator for 19 years, teaching medical-surgical nursing, clinical and research methods and measurement, and evidence-based practice courses at the baccalaureate, master's and doctoral levels.

Paula Gubrud is Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and an Associate Professor at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) School of Nursing. She has more than 25 years of experience as a nurse educator, involving multiple levels of programs from LPN to doctoral education.

Margaret-Ann Carno is Professor of Clinical Nursing and Pediatrics as well as Co-Director of Baccalaureate Programs at the University of Rochester, School of Nursing. Dr Carno has over 20 years of teaching across baccalaureate, master's and doctoral levels of nursing education in medical-surgical nursing, paediatrics, ethics, health law, sleep across the lifespan and research.

LEAD AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS

Tracy Levett-Jones is a Distinguished Professor and Head of School in the School of Nursing & Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney. Her program of research focuses on patient safety, empathy, belongingness, clinical reasoning, and simulation.

Keryln Carville has extensive clinical experience and is committed to research and education within the domains of wound and ostomy care. She was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Wound Management Association (now Wounds Australia) in 2006.

Majella Hales works as a casual academic at the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane. Originally hospital trained, she has worked in nursing for over 25 years. She maintains her clinical experience by undertaking agency shifts in critical care units across South-East Queensland and provides clinical facilitation for undergraduate nursing students for various local universities.

Elspeth Hillman is Academic Lead: Professional Practice in nursing at James Cook University, with an interest in nursing education research. Elspeth has extensive clinical experience in a range of clinical situations from rural to critical care nursing.

Kamaree Houlis-Berry's career spans more than 25 years and commenced with the Australian Army where she trained as a medic and then became a nursing officer at the rank of lieutenant. She has been employed in the public, private and academic sectors in a number of roles, and is now Founder and Director of her own advisory and consulting company.

Tanya Langtree has been a registered nurse since 2000. Tanya has worked in both public and private sectors, with her main areas of clinical expertise being neurosciences and critical care nursing.

Professor Lorna Moxham started nursing in 1980 and is a 3-year specialist hospital-trained psychiatric nurse. Lorna is passionate about the nursing profession, particularly mental health nursing, and is actively contributing at regional, state, national and international levels.

Kerry Reid-Searl is currently a Professor of Innovation and Simulation in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Tasmania. Kerry has been involved in nursing education for more than 30 years and over this time she has remained clinically current. Her research interests include patient safety, simulation, paediatrics and wound care.

David Stanley began his nursing career in the days when nurses wore huge belt buckles and funny hats. David completed his nursing doctorate in the UK, researching in the area of clinical leadership. He retains a research interest in clinical leadership, men in nursing and the role of the media in nursing.

Sharon Stanton - BN, RN, MN (Urological and Continence), GCTAE, Cert IV TAE, ANZUNS (Member), MACN, Fellow HEA, has been involved in an undergraduate nursing degree across several Australian universities for over ten years. Sharon is now working as a Senior Lecturer at Charles Darwin University.