Designed to be photocopied and given to patients or their caregivers to take home and use for self-care and health promotion tips. Written for patients in language they will understand.

This product offers the health care provider an inexpensive means of access to a large variety of topics for patient teaching. The binder includes more than 180 individual guides, which can be copied and handed to children and their families. The guides are written for the patient and family at an appropriate level. Instructions are written clearly and simply in an easy-to-follow format. The topics cover explanations of specific diseases and disorders (including chronic conditions), diagnostic procedures, medical and surgical treatments, home care guidelines, and screening and health promotion information. The complete text is also available in a convenient CD format. * Provides easy access to patient education material, enabling the health care provider to copy and distribute guides to patients and their families as appropriate. * Includes guides for the most common pediatric diseases and disorders, giving the health care provider easy access to patient and family education information. * Stresses uncomplicated readability, increasing understanding for individuals with marginal literacy skills. * Provides illustrations for demonstrating various home care techniques such as using asthma inhalers and catheterization procedures to enhance patient understanding. * Features guides on health promotion and injury prevention, providing children and families with information for safe and healthy living.

Helpful patient teaching guidelines for more than 200 conditions and procedures. This handy guide gives you instant access to a wealth of essential patient teaching information for patients with common diseases and disorders, as well as those who are undergoing diagnostic testing of a medical surgical procedure.

This package contains the print version (binder) and the CD-ROM version of MOSBY's PHARMACOLOGY PATIENT TEACHING GUIDES. * Provides affordable, easy access to up-to-date patient teaching guides which can be copied and distributed to patients as appropriate. * Includes approximately 140 guides for the 200 most commonly prescribed drugs, giving the health care provider easy access to patient education information for many common drugs. * Includes illustrated guides on medication administration methods, assisting the health care provider to more effectively teach medication administration. * Contains guides on health promotion and safety topics, to help educate patients on issues related to safe medication use, such as medication safety with children and the elderly, immunization schedules, safe use of over-the-counter medications, flu shot guidelines, and other safety issues. * Describes effective education techniques and strategies to increase the health care provider's effectiveness in providing patient education. * Includes sample medication records that may be copied for patients to assist them in effectively managing their medications. * Available in a 3-ring binder, to facilitate copying of the guides for distribution to patients. * Written at the eighth grade level to increase understanding for patients with low literacy skills. * Follows a consistent, patient-oriented format for each drug, including the drug's uses, how to take the drug, warnings and side effects, do's and don'ts while taking the drug, and other relevant information. * Uses icons to highlight sections of each guide to facilitate finding relevant information and enhance visual appeal. * Includes annual updates of approximately 20 to 25 new drugs, as well as revised guides for existing drugs, to ensure that current drug information is always available. * Available as .pdf files on CD-ROM, allowing the health care provider to individualize guides for patients prior to printing by adding the patient's name and drug dosage, provider's name and telephone number, and any necessary additional instructions.

MOSBY'S EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PATIENT TEACHING GUIDES offers the emergency health care provider inexpensive access to a large variety of topics for patient teaching. The binder consists of more than 100 patient discharge instruction sheets that can be reproduced for distribution to emergency patients and their families. The guides are written clearly in an easy-to-follow format. Topics include emergency department diagnoses, home care guidelines, and prevention and health promotion. Also available on CD. Provides easy access to patient education material, enabling the health care provider to copy and distribute guides to patients as appropriate. Includes guides for a wide variety of emergency department diagnoses, giving the health care provider easy access to patient education information for common emergency department visits. Stresses uncomplicated readability, serving to increase understanding for patients with marginal literacy skills. Provides illustrations for demonstrating various home care techniques such as crutch walking and applying eye medications, to enhance patient education. Features guides on health promotion and injury prevention across the lifespan, providing patients with information for safe and healthy daily living. Includes guides on social issues such as crisis intervention, substance abuse, and alcohol withdrawal, providing patients with important resources and information on obtaining assistance with these problems.

This supplement provides 20 additional patient teaching guides. The supplement is now included in Mosby's Patient Teaching Guides or available separately.

This updated Third Edition includes all the new information on medications, nutrition, and NANDA nursing diagnosis. This book is in a quick reference, easy-to-read format makes this a great guide for nursing students to become familiar with the more common conditions and issues they will face with patients on a daily basis.