ELSEVIER'S MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY FOR THE PRACTICING NURSE

This effort is the culmination of my lifelong attraction to medical terminology - that which continues to be a source of fulfillment for me. Throughout, I have been impacted by the enhanced efficiency and clarity which is inherent in medical nomenclature. How do nurses view charting? Too often, it is the last load of the shift, in which haste and other demands cloud a precise recall of details. When kept up to date with vividly accurate terminology, we can take pride in our documentation of that which only we might know - that which bears real significance on the many critical cases we manage. As each of...