Welcome to the third edition of Understanding Medical Surgical Nursing! We have fully updated all the material, and have added exciting new information on home health care, end-of-life care, disaster response and bioterrorism, stroke, and more. We continue to work hard to provide a text written at an understandable level, with features that help students understand, apply, and practice the challenging content required to function as practical/vocational nurses. We are thankful to the many students who tell us they find the book very readable, and actually enjoyable. We are overjoyed to hear from several nursing programs that their NCLEX scores soared after adopting this textbook
