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Fundamentals of Nursing (Fundamentals of Nursing (Potter & Perry))

Comprehensive, logically organized, and now easier to read, this market-leading fundamentals text provides you with up-to-date coverage of nursing principles, concepts, and skills. The book's nursing process framework, critical thinking emphasis, health promotion focus, and thorough coverage of acute and continuing care in all settings help prepare you for nursing practice today. This new edition addresses the increased focus on evidence-based practice and new guidelines for safe patient handling. Plus, a new, cutting-edge chapter on Surviving Cancer helps prepare you to address the unique health care needs of patients who have survived cancer, but still face the physical and emotional after-effects of the illness and its therapy.

• The 5-step nursing process provides a consistent framework for clinical chapters.
• UNIQUE! Critical Thinking in each clinical chapter includes Critical Thinking Models demonstrating the application of the nursing process and critical thinking.
• More than 60 skills are generously illustrated and provide clear, step-by-step instructions for practicing safe nursing care.
• Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions for skills alert you to possible problems and appropriate action.
• Procedural Guidelines boxes provide streamlined, step-by-step instructions for performing very basic skills.
• More than 20 care plans demonstrate the application of the 5-step nursing process to individual patient problems to help you understand how a plan is developed and how to evaluate care.
• Clients in the care plan extend to the critical thinking activities at the end of each chapter.
• Over 20 concept maps visually demonstrate planning care for clients with multiple nursing diagnoses.
• Planning sections include sections on Goals and Outcomes, Setting Priorities, and Collaborative Care to help you plan and prioritize comprehensive client care.
• Implementation sections include health promotion, acute care, and continuing care to prepare you for all levels of care in all settings.
• UNIQUE! Safety Alerts provide information and techniques to ensure client and nurse safety based on The Joint Commission's list of National Patient Safety Goals.
• Cultural Aspect of Care boxes summarize cultural considerations related to the chapter topic and provide practical guidelines for how to meet clients' cultural needs and preferences.
• Client Teaching boxes help you plan effective teaching by first identifying outcomes, then developing strategies on how to teach, and, finally, implementing measures to evaluate learning.
• Focus on Older Adult boxes highlight key aspects of nursing assessment and care for this population.
• Key concepts neatly summarize the most important content for each chapter to help you review and evaluate learning.

• UNIQUE! An ESL/Readability specialist has edited each chapter to streamline the text and improve readability.
• UNIQUE! Companion CD, included with the text, provides you with interactive learning activities, searchable audio glossary, Spanish/English audio glossary, Butterfield's Fluids & Electrolytes Tutorial, test-taking skills, and NCLEX® exam-style review questions.
• UNIQUE! Evidence Based Practice boxes summarize the results of a research study and describe the difference the study has made in nursing practice.
• Evidence-Based Practice chapter helps you understand how nursing research serves as the basis for determining best practice, and the critical importance of this continually evolving dynamic.
• UNIQUE! Surviving Cancer chapter prepares you to address the unique health care needs of patients who have survived cancer, but still face the physical and emotional after-effects of the illness and its therapy.
• NCLEX® examination-style review questions for each chapter include new alternate-item format questions, as well as rationales for all answer choices.
• Delegation coverage is enhanced, noting which skills can and cannot be delegated, and indicating related tasks that should be delegated. To help you apply this information, many chapters incorporate delegation considerations into the chapter case study and address them in the critical thinking and NCLEX® exam-style review questions.
• Nursing Assessment Questions boxes help you learn to effectively phrase questions for clients.
• Expanded coverage of informatics familiarizes you with the use of information technology in documenting care and researching best practices.
• UNIQUE! Critical Thinking in Practice sections at the end of each chapter provide questions that require you to apply knowledge, often to the case study detailed in the chapter's care plan.
• New Safe Patient Handling Guidelines are included in the Safety chapter.
• NOC outcomes, as well as NIC interventions, are incorporated in care plans to reflect the standard used by institutions nationwide.
• Key terms are conveniently placed at the beginning of each chapter and include page references where definitions can be found.
• The companion Evolve website offers free downloadable skills video clips and audio chapter summaries.

Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing, 8th Edition

Fundamentals of Nursing, 8/E presents the fundamentals of nursing care within the framework of the nursing process. Hallmark features are a clear and accessible writing style, a focus on practical application with real-world examples and case studies, and an appropriate level of detail for beginners. The book is supported by a state-of-the art technology package to enhance the learning process. Provides the fundamentals of the nature of nursing, contemporary health care, health beliefs and practices, the nursing process, lifespan development issues, integral aspects of nursing, assessing health, and promoting psychosocial health and physiologic health. For Nurses and Health Care Professionals.

First Aid for the Wards

Priceless input from medical students who've succeeded at the wards

This renowned review book for third year medical students taking required rotations on the wards delivers high-yield information for every clerkship: internal medicine, neurology, pediatrics, psychiatry, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and emergency medicine.

Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales (Nurses Pocket Guide)

Bates' Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking (Professional Guide Series)

Nursing Care Plans: Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention (Nursing Care Plans)

Nursing Care Plans, 6th Edition is the most comprehensive nursing care planning book on the market, with 183 care plans covering the most common nursing diagnoses and clinical problems in medical-surgical nursing. It reflects the most current clinical practice and professional standards in nursing and presents the content in an easy-to-use, reader-friendly format. The book functions as two books in one, with one section including a collection of nursing diagnosis care plans and the other providing a library of disease/disorder care plans that serve as models of care planning for the most common medical diagnoses, medical procedures, and psychosocial conditions seen in nursing practice.

• Includes the most extensive array of care plans found in any nursing care planning book, with 62 nursing diagnosis care plans and 121 disease/disorder/procedure care plans, for a total of 183.
• The nursing diagnosis care plan format includes a NANDA definition, a brief explanation of the diagnosis, related NOC outcomes and NIC interventions, related factors, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions.
• The disorders care plan format includes synonyms for the disorder (for ease in cross referencing), a clear and succinct definition of the disorder, related factors, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, NIC interventions and NOC outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions for each relevant nursing diagnosis.
• Eye-catching icons distinguish collaborative from independent interventions.
• Covers adult lifespan issues and issues related to various healthcare settings to equip nurses for a broad range of practice settings, from hospital to home.
• Provides an alphabetical list of NANDA diagnoses inside the front cover.

• Includes new disease/disorder care plans for SARS, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, and obstructive sleep apnea.
• Includes new nursing diagnosis care plans for risk for falls, latex allergy response, nausea, and impaired memory.
• A revised care plan format makes this user-friendly reference even easier to use.
• Updated and expanded rationales throughout reflect the latest clinical evidence and clinical practice guidelines.
• Incorporates the 2005-2006 NANDA nursing diagnoses throughout.
• NIC and NOC classifications reflect the latest editions of Nursing Interventions Classification and Nursing Outcomes Classification.
• Sample care plan clips in Chapter 1 help orient the user to the rest of the book.
• The expanded index includes entries for all nursing diagnoses, medical diagnoses, and synonyms for the medical diagnoses.
• An expanded Evolve website now features 18 Bonus Care Plans.
• The revised Online Care Plan Constructor includes the four new nursing diagnosis care plans and offers enhanced functionality, allowing users to save created care plans and export them to their word processing program.

Dosage Calculations

Master dosage calculations with the best-selling book! This market-leader from Gloria Pickar includes a comprehensive math review, full-color drug labels, and critical thinking assessments. Basic and advanced calculations are thoroughly covered, including intravenous and those specific to the pediatric patient.

Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN Examination, Edition 3

This guide is filled with essential nursing content, tips, strategies, and other indispensable information to help you prepare for the NCLEX-PN examination. It includes all-new information on the latest test plan, plus many questions in the new alternate item formats. The text provides rationales for correct and incorrect answers, as well as strategies for approaching similar questions.

Please check out these other great NCLEX-PN® review books from Linda Silvestri:

Saunders Q & A Review for the NCLEX-PN® Examination (9781416029120)
Saunders Strategies for Success for the NCLEX-PN® Examination (9781416000945)
Saunders Q & A Review Cards for the NCLEX-PN® Exam (9780721603926)

• Pyramid Terms, key terms defined at the beginning of each chapter, give students a quick review of each content area.
  
• Pyramid Points, bulleted items located throughout the content outlines, identify content that typically appears on the NCLEX-PN exam.
  
• Pyramid to Success sections at the beginning of each chapter or major unit of the book provide an overview of the chapter, guidance and direction regarding the focus of review in the content area, and its relative importance to the current NCLEX-PN test plan.
  
• The text and accompanying CD-ROM provide thousands of practice questions. Every question in the book provides a correct answer, rationales for all responses, test-taking strategy, level of cognitive ability, integrated concepts and processes, category of client needs, and reference to an Elsevier nursing textbook.
  
• Text includes a comprehensive exam consisting of 300 questions related to all content areas in the book and representative of the percentages identified in the 2005 NCLEX-PN test plan.
  
• Alternate item format questions provide practice with mastering prioritizing, decision-making, and critical thinking skills, and help prepare users for this additional component of the NCLEX-PN exam.
  
• Text presents introductory chapters on the NCLEX exam, test-taking skills, and the NCLEX-PN from a student's perspective.

• Features a new chapter addressing transitional needs of foreign-educated nurses.
  
• The unit on Growth and Development Across the Lifespan has been completely updated.
  
• Includes 3,500 questions, approximately 500 more than the 2nd edition. All of the questions in the book, plus additional questions, are included on the CD-ROM.
  
• New alternate item format questions include drag-n-drop, illustration questions, and multiple response questions, to prepare readers for the addition of these questions to the NCLEX-PN examination.
  
• The CD-ROM allows readers to practice randomly selected alternate item format questions in study and quiz modes.

Rnotes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide

Clinical Nursing Skills: Basic to Advanced Skills (7th Edition) (MyNursingLab Series)

This book targets new skills — based on clinical standards of AANC, CDC, and the National Society for IV Nurses — necessary for successful entry into clinical practice. It also focuses on practical information now an integral part of the Nurse Licensure Exam. Coverage includes over 560 basic to advanced skills that explore the abilities needed for nursing, step-by-step illustrations that demonstrate these skills, the effects of cultural diversity, 6-step physical assessment, OASIS requirements for home care, and management guidelines — such as delegation of responsibilities and information/flow reporting. For nursing professionals interested in their field's latest issues and trends, and individuals considering making the profession of nursing their own.