Medical-Surgical Nursing Handbook: Evidence-Based Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Disease for Fello

When every shift brings competing priorities, subtle deterioration, and little room for error, you need more than memorized facts. You need a reliable way to think.

Medical-Surgical Nursing Handbook delivers a practical, evidence-based guide to assessing, prioritizing, and managing adults with acute and chronic illness across the continuum of care. Built around a six-layer clinical judgment model, it helps readers recognize meaningful cues, analyze patterns, rank urgent hypotheses, select safe interventions, act decisively, and evaluate outcomes.

Inside, you'll discover:

• Clear explanations of pathophysiology connected directly to bedside assessment and intervention
• Step-by-step guidance for perioperative care, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, acid-base disorders, infection, cancer, respiratory illness, cardiac conditions, shock, hematologic disease, diabetes, renal disorders, gastrointestinal conditions, neurological emergencies, trauma, and more
• Focused coverage of ECG interpretation, dysrhythmias, heart failure, acute coronary syndrome, vascular disease, reperfusion, and post-arrest care
• Clinical alerts, safety priorities, red flags, and escalation thresholds designed to prevent missed deterioration
• Special attention to older adults, atypical presentations, polypharmacy, delirium, health equity, communication, and care transitions
• Unfolding case studies and Next Generation NCLEX-style reasoning prompts that connect knowledge with real clinical decisions

Whether you are preparing for clinical rotations, the NCLEX-RN, certification, residency, or daily practice, this handbook helps you transform complex information into clear, defensible action.

Build stronger clinical judgment. Recognize danger earlier. Deliver safer, more confident care.