Fundamentals Of Nursing With Text And Study Guide

Detailed Features

This book provides the essential concepts, skills, and clinical judgment necessary for delivering high-quality nursing care. The 11th edition of "Fundamentals of Nursing" prepares you for a successful career by building a strong foundation in critical thinking, clinical judgment, nursing theory, evidence-based practice, and patient-centered care.

Key Features:

• Illustrated, Step-by-Step Instructions: The book includes clear, illustrated, and step-by-step guidelines to help you easily learn important nursing skills and procedures.
• Integrated Care Planning: Care plans are presented within a nursing process framework, coordinated with clinical judgment, to help you apply concepts to real-world nursing practice.
• Expert Authorship: Written by an expert author team led by Patricia Potter and Anne Perry, this bestselling textbook helps you develop the understanding and clinical judgment needed for success in both the classroom and your career.
• Comprehensive Review Questions: Each chapter includes review questions to test your understanding of key concepts. Answers and rationales are provided in the book and on the Evolve companion website, with at least four questions in an alternate format.
• Reflective Learning: The book promotes reflective learning, encouraging you to use clinical reasoning to analyze your clinical and simulation experiences.
• Unique Coverage of Chronic Illness: A unique chapter, "Caring for Patients with Chronic Illness," helps you address the specific healthcare needs of patients with chronic conditions.
• Emphasis on Interprofessional Collaboration: The text uniquely emphasizes interprofessional collaboration and cooperation, a crucial aspect of modern healthcare.
• Focus on QSEN Competencies: Unique "Building Competency" boxes summarize QSEN competencies, each with a clinical scenario and open-ended questions designed to help you understand and apply these core competencies.
• Evidence-Based Practice: A dedicated chapter on Evidence-Based Practice shows how nursing research informs and determines best practices.
• Skill and Procedure Guides: The book includes:
• Over 50 nursing skills with illustrated, step-by-step instructions in a two-column format, complete with rationales for each step.
• Over 30 procedural guidelines with streamlined, step-by-step instructions for performing basic skills.