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ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-1827-5
ISBN-10: 0-8036-1827-1

575 pp. 29 ill. two-color illustrations. Soft cover. ©2008
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Advancing Your Career:Concepts in Professional Nursing, 4th Edition

By Rose Kearney Nunnery, RN, PhD, Formerly of Armstrong Atlantic State University Savannah, Currently visiting Professor and Chair at the University of South Carolina—Beaufort and Member of South Carolina Board of Nursing

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Clinical Scenarios

Clinical scenarios provide thought-provoking questions and discussion topics that further enhance the learning experience.

For interactive exercises, click here.

Chapter 3
- > Chapter 3, Clinical Scenario 1
  Jimmy describes himself as "mad at the world..."
- > Chapter 3, Clinical Scenario 2
  Marcy is a 48-year-old woman who has come to her health-care provider today with severe abdominal pain...
- > Chapter 3, Clinical Scenario 3
  Adam and Chuck are 8 and 10 years, old respectively...
Chapter 4
- > Chapter 4, Clinical Scenario 1
  Gerry Smith is a 64-year-old, well-nourished man with long-standing non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus...
- > Chapter 4, Clinical Scenario 2
  Sue Jones is a 28-year-old thin, single mother of three young children who has recently been hospitalized and diagnosed with hepatitis C...
Chapter 7
- > Chapter 7, Clinical Scenario 1
  A 16-year-old boy has been admitted to the nursing unit after breaking his leg in a car accident...
- > Chapter 7, Clinical Scenario 2
  You are making a home visit to an 85-year-old woman who lives by herself...
Chapter 10
- > Chapter 10, Clinical Scenario 1
  You are a working with a couple in a fertility clinic...
- > Chapter 10, Clinical Scenario 2
  James is a 68-year-old home health client with brittle diabetes who lives alone...
- > Chapter 10, Clinical Scenario 3
  Manuel is a 29-year-old construction worker who has recently been diagnosed with a seizure disorder...
- > Chapter 10, Clinical Scenario 4
  Monica is a 48-year-old woman who was rushed to the center by her significant other after awakening this morning with left-sided facial paralysis...
- > Chapter 10, Clinical Scenario 5
  Teresa is a single mother whose 3-year-old son Jeremy was just diagnosed with mild persistent asthma...
Chapter 14
- > Chapter 14, Clinical Scenario 1
  Relate the case to the principles of distributive justice. Clara, 108 years old, is admitted through the hospital emergency room (ER) for nonspecific complaints of chest pain and dizziness...
- > Chapter 14, Clinical Scenario 2
  Andrew, an 8-year-old boy, was diagnosed with leukemia 3 years ago. Initially treated with chemotherapy, his disease went into remission for several months but now has relapsed...
- > Chapter 14, Clinical Scenario 3
  When 13-year-old Keri comes into the outpatient clinic for a sports physical, the clinic RN finds indications of possible abuse...
Chapter 18
- > Chapter 18, Clinical Scenario 1
  In order to remember her computer password, the new staff nurse taped the password to the back of her name badge. She recently lost the name badge...
- > Chapter 18, Clinical Scenario 2
  A staff member has been exposed to blood through a workplace accident and was tested for HIV through the Employee Health Department...
Chapter 20
- > Chapter 20, Clinical Scenario 1
  A 22-year-old college student arrives at the college health center with complaints of high fever, vomiting, headache, and backache...