Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents : General concepts: experience of health and illness -- Professional issues and opportunities -- General concepts: nursing process -- Nursing assessment: health history and physical examination -- General concepts: adults development and the impact of disruption -- Nursing assessment and role in management: stress -- General concepts: clients teaching -- Nursing role in management:cell injury and inflammation -- Nursing role in management:altered immune responses -- Nursing role in management: fluid and electrolyte imbalance -- Nursing role in management: preoperative client -- Nursing role in management :client during surgery -- Nursing role in management: postoperative client -- Nursing assessment: vision and hearing -- Nursing role in management: problem of vision and hearing -- Nursing assessment: problem of the integumentary system -- Nursing role in management:burn client -- Nursing assessment: respiratory system -- Nursing role in management : upper respiratory problems -- Nursing role in management: lower respiratory problems -- Nursing role in managements: ob-structure pulmonary diseases -- Nursing role in management ; critical care of the respiratory -- Nursing assessment: hematologic system -- Nursing role managements;hematologic problems -- Nursing assessment: blood pressure disturbances -- Nursing role management:coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure -- Nursing role in management: critical care of the cardiac client -- Nursing role in management: inflammatory and valvular heart diseases -- Nursing role in management:vascular disorders -- Nursing assessment: gastrointestinal system -- Nursing role in management; problem of ingestion -- Nursing role in management: problem of absorption and elimination -- Nursing role in management: problem of the liver,biliary tract and pancreas -- Nursing assessment : urinary system -- Nursing role management: renal and urological problems -- Nursing role in management: acute and chronic renal failure -- Nursing assessment: endocrine system -- Nursing role in management: the client with diabetes -- Nursing role in management: endocrine problems -- Nursing assessment: reproductive system -- Nursing role in management: breast disorders -- Nursing role in management: sexually transmitted diseases -- Nursing role in management: female reproductive problems -- Nursing role in management: male reproductive problems -- Nursing assessment: nervous system -- Nursing assessment and role management: pain -- Nursing role in management: unconscious client -- Nursing role management:critical care of the client with increased intracranial pressure -- Nursing role management: stroke client -- Nursing role in managements:chronic neurological problems -- Nursing role role in management: peripheral nerve and spinal cord problems -- Nursing assessment: musculoskeletal problem -- Nursing role management: arthritis and other rheumatic problems -- Nursing role: medical and traumatic emergencies -- Nursing role : radiation accidents -- Nursing role in management: addictive behaviors.