| Description |
xxxviii, 1767 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Section I. Foundations of nursing -- unit I. Foundations of nursing practice -- 1. Evolution of nursing practice -- 2. The health care delivery system -- 3. Framework of nursing practice -- 4. The nurse-client relationship -- 5. Culture and ethnicity -- 6. Evidence-based practice and nursing research -- 7. Advanced technology and information systems -- 8. Legal accountability and responsibilities -- 9. Ethical issues -- unit II. The nursing process and decision making -- 10. Critical thinking and the nursing process -- 11. Assessment -- 12. Nursing diagnosis -- 13. Outcome identification and planning -- 14. Implementation -- 15. Evaluation -- 16. Documentation and reporting -- unit III. Client care across the life span -- 17. The pediatric client -- 18. The adult client -- 19. The geriatric client -- unit IV. Arenas of client care -- 20. Acute and perioperative care -- 21. Restorative care -- 22. Home care -- 23. Community care -- unit V. Leadership in nursing -- 24. Vibrant nursing leadership: empowering the future of professional nursing -- 25. Management and policy -- unit VI. Concepts of therapeutic nursing -- 26. Infection control -- 27. Health assessment -- 28. Client education -- 29. Diagnostic testing -- 30. Medication administration -- 31. Alternative and complementary therapies -- section II. Nursing of human function -- unit VII. Health perception and health maintenance -- 32. Health maintenance, health promotion, and wellness -- 33. Safety and hygiene -- unit VIII. Nutritional-metabolic -- 34. Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance -- 35. Nutrition -- 36. Skin integrity and wound healing --unit IX. Elimination -- 37. Urinary and bowel elimination -- unit X. Activity-exercise -- 38. Mobility and biomechanics -- 39. Oxygenation -- unit XI. Sleep-rest -- 40. Sleep and rest -- unit XII. Cognitive-perceptual -- 41. Sensation, perception, and cognition -- 42. Pain -- unit XIII. Self-perception/self-concept -- 43. Self-concept -- unit XIV. Role-relationship -- 44. Family, roles, relationships, and social support -- 45. Loss and grief -- unit XV. Sexuality-reproductive -- 46. Sexuality -- unit XVI. Coping-stress tolerance -- 47. Stress, anxiety, coping, and adaptation -- unit XVII. Value-belief -- 48. Spiritual health -- Appendix A. NANDA nursing diagnoses 2007-2008 -- Appendix B. Symbols and abbreviations -- Appendix C. Recommended dietary allowances -- Appendix D. Reference laboratory values -- Appendix E. English/Spanish words and phrases -- Appendix F. Standard precautions -- Appendix G. Concept mapping -- Glossary |
| Summary |
"Nursing Fundamentals: Caring & Clinical Decision Making, Second Edition, offers a wellness-centered, balanced approach to the practice of nursing. Using a functional health patterns framework, the nursing discipline, with its everchanging and dynamic nature, becomes more understandable. Emerging topics such as the enormous impact of technology, strong emphasis on wellness, well-researched evidence-based practice, and recent expansion of care into the home and community settings are addressed, as well as foundational topics of clinical decision making, delegation clinical skills, and prioritization."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Nursing |
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Nursing Decision making |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 2004 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Nursing assessment.
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Nursing -- Decision making.
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Nursing.
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Nursing Care.
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Nursing Assessment.
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Nursing.
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| Author |
Daniels, Rick (Associate professor)
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Grendell, Ruth N. (Ruth Naomi)
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Wilkins, Fredrick R.
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| LC no. |
2008935920 |
| ISBN |
1428305572 |
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9781428305571 |
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