Full Description
"Fundamentals of Nursing: Caring and Clinical Judgment" provides comprehensive coverage of nursing concepts and skills for all RN students. Chapters are organized around application of the nursing process, with special emphasis on critical thinking. Each chapter begins with a case study and an overview of key nursing diagnoses, and presents assessment, planning, interventions, and evaluation within the context of the client in the case study and these diagnoses. Nursing care plans and vignettes that revisit the client in the case study provide critical thinking questions that help students reflect on client problems and explore alternative solutions.
Contents
SECTION 1: THE CONTEXT OF NURSING PRACTICE Unit 1: The Social Context of Nursing 1. The Nursing Profession 2. Legal and Ethical Context of Practice 3. Cultural Context of Practice 4. The Health Care Delivery System Unit 2: A Framework for Nursing Practice 5. Caring and Clinical Judgment 6. Client Assessment: Nursing History 7. Assessing Vital Signs 8. Physical Assessment 9. Nursing Diagnosis 10. Planning, Intervening, and Evaluating 11. Documenting Care Unit 3: The Tools of Practice 12. The Nurse-Client Relationship 13. Client Teaching 14. Managing Client Care 15. Nursing Research Unit 4: The Well Client Across the Life Span 16. Infancy Through Adolescence 17. The Young, Middle, and Older Adult SECTION 2: NURSING CARE FOR FUNCTIONAL HEALTH Unit 5: Health Perception-Health Management Pattern 18. Health Perception 19. Health Maintenance: Lifestyle Management 20. Health Maintenance: Medication Management 21. Health Protection: Risk for Infection 22. Health Protection: Risk for Injury Unit 6: Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern 23. Promoting Healthy Nutrition 24. Restoring Nutrition 25. Maintaining Fluid and Electrolyte Balance 26. Promoting Wound Healing 27. Managing Body Temperature Unit 7: Elimination Pattern 28. Managing Bowel Elimination 29. Managing Urinary Elimination Unit 8: Activity-Exercise Pattern 30. Managing Self Care Deficit 31. Restoring Physical Mobility 32. Preventing Disuse Syndrome 33. Supporting Respiratory Function 34. Supporting Cardiovascular Function Unit 9: Sleep-Rest Pattern 35. Managing Sleep and Rest Unit 10: Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern 36. Managing Pain 37. Supporting Sensory/Perceptual Function 38. Supporting Verbal Communication 39. Managing Confusion Unit 11: Self-Perception-Self-Concept Pattern 40. Promoting Self-Concept 41. Managing Anxiety 42. Managing Vulnerability Unit 12: Role-Relationship Pattern 43. Managing Functional Limitations 44. Managing Loss Unit 13: Sexuality-Reproductive Pattern 45. Maintaining Sexual Health Unit 14: Coping--Stress-Tolerance Pattern 46. Supporting Stress Tolerance and Coping 47. Supporting Family Coping Unit 15: Value-Belief Pattern 48. Supporting Spirituality Unit 16: The Surgical Client 49. The Surgical Client Appendices
