The practice of nursing continues to evolve the practice of caring is timeless. Nurses today must grow and evolve to meet the demands of a dramatically changing health care system. They need skills in science, technology, communication, and interpersonal relations to be effective members of the collaborative health care team.
They need to think critically and be creative in implementing nursing strategies to provide safe and competent nursing care for clients of diverse cultural backgrounds in increasingly varied settings.
They need skills in teaching, leading, managing, and the process of change. They need to be prepared to provide home and community-based nursing care to clients across the life span—especially to the increasing numbers of older adults. They need to understand legal and ethical principles, holistic healing modalities, and complementary therapies. And, they need to continue their unique client advocacy role, which demands a blend of nurturance, sensitivity, caring, empathy, commitment, and skill founded on a broad base of knowledge.
These concepts include but are not limited to caring, wellness, health promotion, disease prevention, holistic care, critical thinking and clinical reasoning, multiculturalism, nursing theories, nursing informatics, nursing research, ethics, and advocacy. In this edition, every chapter has been reviewed and revised. The content has been updated to reflect the latest nursing evidence and the increasing emphasis on ageing, wellness, safety, interprofessional practice, and home- and community-based care.
This edition has 10 units which covers all Concepts of the main Fundamentals of Nursing. Detail of each unit is appended below. Unit 1: The Nature of Nursing, Clusters Five chapters that provide comprehensive coverage of introductory concepts of nursing.
Unit 2: Contemporary Healthcare, four chapters cover contemporary healthcare topics such as healthcare systems, community-based care, home care, and informatics. Unit 3: The Nursing Process, six chapters introduce students to this important framework, with each chapter devoted to a specific stage of the nursing process.
Chapter 10 applies to critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and the nursing process. Available alone or packaged with the text. Do you like this book? Please share with your friends, let's read it!! Search Ebook here:. Book Preface The nursing profession is always responding to dynamic change and continual challenges. Procedural guidelines provide streamlined, step-by-step instructions for performing basic skills. Critical Thinking Models in each clinical chapter show students how to apply the nursing process and critical thinking to achieve successful clinical outcomes.
Evidence-Informed Practice chapter includes the concept of research literacy and discusses quality improvement QI. Bring the principles of nursing to life and build a foundation for success from the classroom to the clinical setting. Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts and Competencies for Practice, 9th Edition helps foster the strong critical thinking, clinical judgment, clear communication, and sound clinical skills students need to succeed throughout the nursing curriculum and to meet the challenges practicing nurses confront each day.
Drawing from the latest clinical evidence, this big-picture approach breathes life into theoretical principles, putting students in the mindset of a successful nurse and immersing them in a proven nursing process framework that clarifies key capabilities, from promoting health to differentiating between normal function and dysfunction, to the use of scientific rationales and the approved nursing process.
This updated 9th Edition further enhances students'' clinical capabilities with new Unfolding Patient Stories that challenge students to think critically about commonly encountered patient scenarios. Unfolding Patient Stories, written by the National League for Nursing, foster valuable reflection on commonly encountered clinical scenarios.
Critical Thinking Using QSEN Competencies features include thought-provoking questions to boost students'' clinical reasoning and problem-solving capabilities. Revised organization of the Table of Contents reflects an updated focus on foundational nursing concepts and competencies.
Case Scenarios at the beginning of each chapter encourage students to think holistically about common clinical situations. Richly illustrated concept maps help visual learners apply the nursing process and think critically about the chapter-opening case scenarios. Collaborating with the Healthcare Team displays familiarize students with the SBAR technique for effective interpersonal communication.
Therapeutic Dialogues emphasize close listening and enhance students'' patient communication capabilities. Apply Your Critical Thinking features encourage deep thinking on concepts and situations, with detailed answers in an appendix identifying areas for further review.
Ethical-Legal Issues equip students to think critically about complex situations they may encounter. Plan of Care features help students apply available knowledge and evidence-based research to create effective care plans. Outcome-Based Teaching Plans guide students to specific patient education outcomes. Safety Alerts highlight specific considerations for safe practice. Evidence-Based Bundles to Improve Patient Care recommend sets of evidenced-base practices to reliably improve patient outcomes.
Key Terms lists familiarize students with essential vocabulary in each chapter. Learning Objectives alert students to the most important chapter concepts. It strives to teach students how to think about each case in a meaningful, systematic way.
This book breathes life into theoretical principles and puts students in the mindset of a successful nurse. The framework approach gives students the tools to tackle real-life challenges in a clinical setting.
The Nursing Process is the foundation of this book. By learning to identify normal function, assess risk or dysfunction, envision potential outcomes, plan and provide for interventions and evaluate the effectiveness of a treatment, students will be equipped to stay on track while customizing care for each patient.
Chapters open with a case study and include critical thinking questions, Apply Your Knowledge Boxes, and Ethical-Legal Boxes to build students' decision-making abilities and clinical judgment.
Collaborating with the Healthcare Team Boxes and Patient Teaching Boxes demonstrate the importance of communication in these clinical scenarios. While all books list critical thinking exercises as a feature, most books like Potter and Kozier include these questions at the end of the chapter.
Craven weaves critical thinking into most activities throughout the chapter so students are constantly being challenged to think like a professional nurse. This revision immerses students in a proven nursing framework that clarifies key capabilities — from promoting health, to differentiating between normal function and dysfunction, to the use of scientific rationales and the approved nursing process — and includes new Unfolding Patient Stories and Critical Thinking Using QSEN Competencies.
The book provides comprehensive coverage of the theoretical foundations of nursing, the nursing process, basic nursing skills, physiologic patient care, and the latest nursing concepts, including evidence-based practice and critical thinking.
Specific topics covered include oxygenation, self-care and hygiene, mobility and exercise, comfort from pain, rest and sleep, skin integrity, nutrition, and urinary and bowel elimination. Abundant illustrations, call-outs, end-of-chapter quizzes reinforce reading and highlight age-related considerations, risks and complications, and provide tips for documentation and patient-teaching. This textbook is designed for beginning students in all types of professional nursing programs.
The comprehensive coverage provides fundamental nursing concepts, skills, and techniques of nursing practice and a firm foundation for more advanced areas of study. It's your complete guide to nursing - from basic concepts to essential skills! Patient Safety and Quality chapter describes how quality and safety apply to the nurse, and includes a new skill on fall prevention in healthcare settings.
NEW content addresses the Affordable Care Act, patients' perspectives on hospital care as measured by HCAHPS surveys, health disparities and vulnerable populations, compassion fatigue, pain assessment, patient education techniques like teach-back, new equipment, Healthy People , and more.
Unique Evidence-Based Practice boxes in every chapter include a PICO question - the Problem, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome - and summarize a research study along with its application to nursing practice.
Over NEW photos clarify procedures and familiarize you with the latest clinical equipment. It offers practice the nursing student needs to hone their critical-thinking and problem-solving skills while mastering the principles, concepts, and procedures essential to success in the classroom and in practice.
For fundamentals of nursing courses in the nursing curriculum Help each student think like a nurse using a clear, consistent approach Consistency and accessibility are essential to student success in the Fundamentals of Nursing course. Coverage of the key concepts of contemporary nursing, as well as the latest nursing evidence, standards, and competencies, helps prepare readers to become effective nurses.
To help students develop their clinical-reasoning abilities, new QSEN features draw connections to actual nursing practice. All basic and fundamental skills for the registered nurse are described within the nursing process.
Students will learn to think like nurses as they see how the material they are reading is applied in nursing practice. We have uploaded these PDF and EPUB files to our online file repository so that you can enjoy a safe and blazing-fast downloading experience.
Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Patient-Centered Care, 9th Edition is proven, approachable, and part of a complete nursing fundamentals solution, instills an exceptional foundation for clinical confidence and effective patient-centered care. This edition adds New features that encourage reflection, highlight QSEN-related content, and familiarize students with emerging technology they will likely encounter in practice.
A New informatics chapter prepares students for their important role working with emerging health information technology and managing patient data. Case-based clinical scenarios put chapter concepts in a realistic context, and content throughout integrates seamlessly with a suite of teaching and learning tools to bring the entire nursing continuum to life and equip students to excel throughout their nursing careers.
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