Fundamentals of Nursing: Caring and Clinical Judgment - Rilegato

Harkreader, Helen; Hogan, Mary Ann

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0721691412 ISBN 13: 9780721691411

Casa editrice: W B Saunders Co, 2003

Riassunto

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.

• Overall organization by Gordon's Functional Health Patterns to help students focus clinical problems on client needs.
• UNIQUE! Includes content on topics not dealt with as extensively in other fundamentals texts, such as Vulnerability, The Caregiver Role, The Client with Functional Limitations, and Anxiety.
• UNIQUE! Decision Trees show students how to work through health care decisions when differentiating between closely related nursing diagnoses.
• Cross-Cultural Care charts, based on the client in the case study, include cultural background information that assists students in providing care to a wide variety of clients.
• Streamlined procedures include rationales, estimates of Time to Allow, Delegation Considerations, Equipment Needed, Home Care Considerations, and Age-Related Considerations.
• UNIQUE! A Patient's Perspective charts, based on interviews with actual clients and caregivers, give students a "window" into the experience of illness.
• UNIQUE! Cost of Care charts introduce beginning students to concepts and issues surrounding healthcare financing.
• Clustering Data to Make a Nursing Diagnosis charts present brief patient scenarios and show students how to develop and write appropriate nursing diagnoses.
• State of Nursing Research charts summarize several research studies to demonstrate the current state of nursing research in a specific area.
• Teaching for Wellness and Teaching for Self-Care charts summarize health-promotion and health-restoration teaching in client-oriented language.

• NIC/NOC incorporated into the Care Plans.
• UNIQUE! Considering the Alternatives charts now provide both pro and con viewpoints to give students a broader and more practical perspective on popular alternative and complementary therapies.
• Sample Documentation Notes for the client in the chapter case study show students how to effectively document care.
• Totally revised Managing Client Care chapter (Chapter 14) describes the organization of the health care environment and nursing units, and discusses basic concepts of leadership and management.
• The community as a client is presented in the Vulnerability chapter (Chapter 42) to help students understand the populations served by community health nurses.
• The content on rehabilitation is thoroughly updated in the chapter on Functional Limitations (Chapter 43).
• The content on intravenous therapy now includes new photos showing step-by-step IV line insertion.

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Contenuti

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

Product Description

Book by Harkreader PhD RN Helen Hogan RN MSN Mary Ann

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: W B Saunders Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0721691412
• ISBN 13: 9780721691411
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 1392
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: LSWR Group; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; Italia