Cowan's Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach, Third Edition,
is a perfect fit for the course. The author team includes a practicing
Registered Nurse who shows students how the content on each page relates
to their lives and future career. Connect is aligned with the text and
provides a highly reliable, easy-to-use homework and learning management
solution that embeds learning science and award-winning adaptive tools
to improve student results.
This updated version incorporates information about the Microbiome
throughout the textbook, including a separate boxed feature at the end
of each chapter that walks students through how to critically analyze
the onslaught of new research findings. To increase student success and
critical thinking, "SmartGrid," a new end-of-chapter feature, organizes
questions that assess the major curriculum guidelines outlined by the
American Society for Microbiology and represent the increasing levels of
Bloom's Taxonomy of learning.