This clinical pocket manual based on the comprehensive text, Lippincott's Manual of Nursing Practice, covers the four main areas of nursing: medical-surgical, maternal-newborn, pediatrics, and psychiatric. Features include an A-to-Z outline format of diseases and disorders; alerts highlighting critical information; a Collaborative Management section; updated, and Nursing Interventions throughout. New features are additional disorders; listing of nursing diagnoses with references from each disorder; table of common lab tests; section on "Problems of the Newborn"; more graphics and, alternative and psychosocial interventions.