Basic Nursing: Concepts, Skills & Reasoning

Description

Thinking. Doing. Caring.
Leslie S. Treas and Judith Wilkinson, the team that brings you the two-volume approach featured in Fundamentals of Nursing, integrate all of the content and features that are its hallmarks into one carefully designed and written volume that teaches you to “think like nurse” from the very first day.

In every chapter, you’ll first explore the theoretical knowledge behind the concepts, principles, and rationales. Then, you’ll study the practical knowledge involved in the processes; and finally, you’ll learn the skills and procedures

Designed for all learning styles, the text, electronic study guide, and a wealth of interactive resources work together to create a multimedia-rich learning experience for traditional and non-traditional students.

Bonus!
Electronic Study Guide
This interactive, knowledge-building tool features a wealth of learning activities and resources. It’s like having a 500-page workbook at your fingertips.

Key Features

· Explores the full-spectrum nursing model of thinking, doing, and caring and reinforces the model with critical-thinking questions in every chapter.
· Follows a multi-cultural, multi-generational, Asian-American family case study that brings nursing theory to life.
· Presents additional case studies in each chapter that explain the nurse’s role in today’s complex healthcare system.
· Promotes critical thinking with headers presented as questions.
· Uses informational learning boxes to break complex topics into manageable sections, perfect for chapter review now and exam prep later.
· Poses critical-thinking questions that challenge you to “think like nurse’ and prepare for professional practice.
· Presents illustrated, step-by-step procedures with rationales that deliver all the information you need for the skills lab or clinical.
· Promotes effective care planning with care plans and concept care maps as well as NANDA, NIC, and NOC.
· Describes the research evidence related to the chapter topic and encourages further study.
· Includes QSEN competencies throughout.

Table of Contents

· How Nurses Think
1. Nursing Past & Present
2. Critical Thinking & Nursing Process
3. Assessing
4. Diagnosing
5. Planning Outcomes
6. Planning Interventions
7. Implementing & Evaluating
8. Theory, Research, & Evidence-Based Practice

· Factors Affecting Health
9. Development: Infancy Through Middle-Age
10. Development: Older Adulthood
11. Experiencing Health & Illness
12. Stress & Adaptation
13. Psychosocial Health & Illness
14. Family
15. Culture & Ethnicity
16. Spirituality
17. Loss, Grief, & Dying

· Essential Nursing Interventions
18. Documenting & Reporting
19. Vital Signs
20. Communication & Therapeutic Relationships
21. Physical Assessment
22. Infection Prevention & Control
23. Safety
24. Hygiene
25. Medicating Patients
26. Teaching & Learning
27. Health Promotion

· Supporting Physiological Function
28. Nutrition
29. Bowel Elimination
30. Urinary Elimination
31. Sensory Perception
32. Pain
33. Activity & Exercise
34. Sexual Health
35. Sleep & Rest
36. Skin Integrity & Wound Healing
37. Oxygenation
38. Circulation & Perfusion
39. Fluids, Electrolytes, & Acid-Base Balance

· The Context for Nurses’ Work
40. Perioperative Nursing
41. Home & Community Nursing
42. Nursing Ethics
43. Legal Issues
44. Nursing Informatics
45. Leadership & Management (Online at DavisPlus)
46. Holistic Healing (Online at DavisPlus)