Book Description
Comprehensive, logically-organized, and easy to read, this market-leading fundamentals text provides students with a solid base for their nursing education. Encompassing principles, concepts, and skills, it offers thorough coverage, a nursing process framework, an emphasis on critical thinking, and a focus on care in all settings. This new edition addresses a number of key issues, including evidence-based practice, safety concerns, and end-of-life care. To better meet the needs of beginning students, care plans have been expanded to more clearly explain assessment findings leading to nursing diagnoses, as well as evaluation of outcomes.

About the Author
Patricia A. Potter, RN, MSN, PhD, CMAC, Research Scientist, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO; and Anne Griffin Perry, RN, MSN, EdD, FAAN, Professor, Interim Director of Research, Saint Louis University School of Nursing, Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, MO

ANNOTATION

The book contains predominantly color illustrations, with some black-and-white illustrations.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Continuing its tradition of comprehensive coverage of fundamental nursing principles, precise step-by-step procedures, and five-step nursing process framework, the fifth edition of FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING is thoroughly revised and updated to address the latest changes in practice. New topics include community based nursing, alternative therapies, caring, and delegation. A new, innovative four-dimensional critical thinking model demonstrates the ongoing assimilation of knowledge and information comprising critical thinking and its relationship to the nursing process.

SYNOPSIS

Fundamentals of Nursingwas designed for you, the student. You're busy. You've got a lot to do and a lot to learn. You need a book that will help you understand the concepts and skills you'll be tested on-in the classroom and in practice.

Page through this book and check out the following: Complete coverage of content is presented in a readable, appealing format.
The five-step nursing process-the organizing framework for most of your texts and practice-is clearly explained and consistently applied throughout.

Over 1100 full-color photos and drawings bring concepts and techniques clearly to life.

Essential nursing skills are presented in a clear format that explains both how and why each step is performed. Delegation considerations in each skill guide you in assigning tasks to assistive personnel.

A unique five-dimensional model in the clinical chapters clearly shows how nursing process and critical thinking come together in caring for clients.

Your own personal access code for the customized website that features links to important Websites for this book.

Inside this book is a Free CD Companion that includes: Butterfield's Fluids and Electrolytes--an interactive program that helps you understand one of the most difficult concepts in nursing.

Case studies that provide interactive practice in applying the nursing process critical thinking model to "real" clients

Performance checklists to help you evaluate your competence in performing the skills presented in the text-print them or fill them in on screen