MedSurg I GI & Hepatic Trail Guide

A 52-page visual learning guide that teaches GI and hepatic nursing as a connected clinical story. Students follow the digestive pathway, learn the major disorders and their distinguishing clues, and repeatedly return to complications, bedside priorities, and urgent recognition. The guide combines realistic anatomy, concise comparisons, nursing-priority panels, and Trail Tips so learners can understand the “why” before memorizing the “what.”

What You Will Learn

• Digestive anatomy, digestion, absorption, assessment, and diagnostic testing.
• Recognition and prioritization of common and emergent GI disorders.
• Pancreatic, gallbladder, biliary, liver, and cirrhosis-related conditions.
• Nutrition support, NG decompression, and high-risk complication patterns.

Table of Contents

• GI & Hepatic trail orientation
• Digestive pathway, digestion, absorption, assessment, and diagnostics
• Nausea, vomiting, and GI bleeding
• GERD, peptic ulcer disease, perforation, and gastritis
• Appendicitis, peritonitis, and intestinal obstruction
• IBS versus IBD
• Crohn disease
• ulcerative colitis
• flares
• toxic megacolon
• Diverticular disease, infectious diarrhea/C. difficile, diarrhea, and constipation
• Colorectal cancer, ostomy care/red flags, celiac disease, and malabsorption
• Acute and severe pancreatitis; pancreatic cancer
• Liver functions, liver lab patterns, and viral hepatitis
• Cirrhosis, portal hypertension, ascites, and variceal bleeding
• Hepatic encephalopathy, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, and hepatorenal syndrome
• Gallstones, cholecystitis, biliary obstruction, and cholangitis
• Acute liver failure and liver transplant
• Enteral/parenteral nutrition and NG decompression
• Final GI & Hepatic Field Map.