Life's Instruction Manual: (a little book of Wisdom, Prose, Poetry and Nonsense)

Lippincott CoursePoint is the only integrated digital curriculum solution for nursing education. CoursePoint provides a completely integrated and adaptive experience, all geared to help students understand, retain, and apply their course knowledge and be prepared for practice. CoursePoint is structured in the way that students study, providing them the content exactly where and when they need it for a more effective learning experience. The powerful integration of adaptive learning, powered by prepU, with the premium digital course content provides a personalized learning experience that drives students to immediate remediation in their course content and allowing instructors and students assess their progress in real-time. The digital textbook is downloadable, so students will have perpetual access to this content.

Focus on Adult Health: Medical-Surgical Nursing, is uniquely designed to prepare today's students to succeed as practicing nurses by focusing on the most important medical disorders and key nursing responsibilities.

“As the demand for nurses continues to grow, new nurses are entering a dynamic and challenging work environment, and many feel unprepared,” said Linda H. Pellico, RN, PhD, the lead author and editor of the text. “We developed this text and related tools to prepare students for the reality of medical-surgical nursing. We need to teach students how to think like a nurse, and how to focus quickly on the most critical aspects. Beyond taking care of what you see, nursing is about predicting and preventing risks, so this text details risk factors, clinical presentation, and treatment.”

The text prepares students for both the NCLEX exam and for daily nursing practice by focusing on the need-to-know content. Both the text and the supporting tools include features designed to reinforce student understanding, such as:

• Focused Assessment Guides, which summarize key content for quick reference and review,
• Guidelines for Nursing Care: Clear, step-by-step “how to” procedures are paired with action rationales to explain why actions are important,
• Innovative Art Program: Connects text-based concepts with real-life patient scenarios,
• Nursing alerts, evidence-based practice boxes, and risk factor boxes, to keep students engaged and increase their comprehension.