This book is fully updated book. It all the material, and have added exciting new information on home health care, end-of-life care, disaster response and bioterrorism, stroke, and more.

The features of this book will help students understand, apply, and practice the challenging content required to function as practical/vocational nurses.

This book is organized in sixteen units and appendixes:

1. Understanding health care issues
2. Understanding health and illness
   
3. Understanding life span influences on health and illness
4. Understanding the immune system
5. Understanding the cardiovascular system
6. Understanding the hematopoietic and lymphatic systems
7. Understanding the respiratory system
8. Understanding the gastrointestinal, hepatic, and pancreatic systems
9. Understanding the urinary system
10. Understanding the endocrine system
11. Understanding the genitourinary and reproductive system
12. Understanding the musculoskeletal system
13. Understanding the neurological system
14. Understanding the sensory system
15. Understanding the integumentary system
16. Understanding mental health care

Appendix A: North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) Nursing Diagnosis
Appendix B: Normal Adult Reference Laboratory Values
Appendix C: Answer to Review Questions
Appendix D: Medical Abbreviations
Appendix E: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Combining Forms
Glossary
Index