Nursing care remains at the cutting edge of science as innovations in patient care continuously evolve. However, fundamental and general skills are still necessary to develop the clinical reasoning skills a nurse requires in order to provide safe, high-quality care to patients and communities.

All chapters include updated information where appropriate. New topics include the latest methods in infection control, information on electronic patient records, the ethical use of social media and a review of nutritional information.

Each chapter contains:
• The prerequisite knowledge necessary for study of that chapter, to ensure integration with other core subjects
• Ethical considerations
• Relevant medico-legal considerations
• Key concepts and terminology as well as new vocabulary

Juta's complete textbook of medical surgical nursing is a comprehensive, evidence-based textbook written with the southern African nursing student in mind. The text meets the requirements of current nursing programmes and the proposed updates to the curriculum. The book covers all the systems in the human body with comprehensive information on the most important conditions that can affect these systems. Chapters provide an overview of the anatomy and physiology of each system and detail risk factors, nursing assessments and common findings. These include the collection of both subjective and objective data as well as management principles for each condition.