Microbiology: Basic and Clinical Principles, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (January 18, 2018) © 2019

  • Lourdes P. Norman-McKay Florida State College at Jacksonville

Title overview

For pre-nursing and allied health students (including mixed-majors courses).

Building tomorrow's healthcare leaders

Microbiology: Basic and Clinical Principles teaches microbiology fundamentals in a manner that encourages students to think clinically and critically. Author Norman-McKay's conversational writing style employs accessible analogies and humor to engage students while new research-based learning design principles focus learners on what is truly important.

Developed for allied health professionals, this 1st Edition aligns with ASM's Curriculum Guidelines for Microbiology in Nursing and Allied Health, featuring NCLEX/HESI/TEAS-style questions.

Hallmark features of this title

  • Visual Summaries help students synthesize chapter content, focus on key microbiology concepts, and see the bigger picture.
  • The art program incorporates research-based learning design principles and step-by-step process figures to focus on essential details and support visual learners.
  • Think Clinically: Comprehensive Cases help students layer knowledge, analyze data, and apply what they've learned to clinical scenarios using the S.M.A.R.T. framework.
  • Bench to Bedside introduces cutting-edge advances in translational medicine, highlighting the collaboration between scientists and clinicians to improve patient outcomes.
  • NCLEX/HESI/TEAS style reading questions help students practice critical thinking and build confidence for entrance and licensure exams.

Additional features of this title

  • A Clinical Case opens each chapter and presents compelling patient scenarios with questions that allow students to apply their understanding of chapter material, using the S.M.A.R.T. (Summarize, Make Connections, Avoid Distractors, Re-read, and Thoroughly Answer) problem-solving framework.
  • Training Tomorrow's Health Team boxed features build interest and encourage students to immediately link newly learned theory to clinical practice in a relevant context.
  • Bench to Bedside boxed features introduce cutting edge advances in translational medicine by highlighting the increasingly important collaboration between scientists and clinicians in order to improve patient outcomes.
  • Build Your Foundation checkpoints offer formative self-assessments throughout the book.

Table of contents

  1. Introduction to Microbiology
  2. Biochemistry Basics
  3. Introduction to Prokaryotic Cells
  4. Introduction to Eukaryotic Cells
  5. Genetics
  6. Viruses and Prions
  7. Fundamentals of Microbial Growth
  8. Microbial Metabolism
  9. Principles of Infectious Disease and Epidemiology
  10. Host-Microbe Interactions and Pathogenesis
  11. Innate Immunity
  12. Adaptive Immunity
  13. Immune System Disorders
  14. Vaccines and Biotechnology-Based Diagnostics and Therapeutics
  15. Antimicrobial Drugs
  16. Respiratory System Infections
  17. Skin and Eye Infections
  18. Nervous System Infections
  19. Digestive System Infections
  20. Urinary and Reproductive System Infections
  21. Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Infections

Author bios

About our author

Dr. Lourdes Norman-McKay earned her B.S. in microbiology and cell science from the University of Florida and her Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. Her postdoctoral fellowship in microbiology and immunology focused on the role of viruses in cancer. She has fifteen years of experience teaching allied health students at the associate, baccalaureate, and post baccalaureate levels. She is a fulltime professor at Florida State College Jacksonville where she mainly teaches microbiology and anatomy and physiology, and where in 2016, her peers and students recognized her with the Outstanding Faculty Award.

Dr. Norman-McKay has extensive STEM program development experience that ranges from developing and launching a biomedical sciences baccalaureate program to serving as a curriculum designer and subject matter expert for the Florida Space Research Institute and Workforce Florida. Most recently, she was invited to serve in the U.S. Department of State's speakers program to promote STEM education innovation and women in STEM. Dr. Norman-McKay is an active participant in the American Society for Microbiology's (ASM) Microbiology in Nursing and Allied Health Task Force Committee, which just published curricular guidelines for microbiology courses that train nursing and allied health students. Her textbook, Microbiology: Basic and Clinical Principles was released this January.

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