 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | 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.
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Average Customer Rating:    Faculty, please read. Wow, what an awful book. I agree with most of what has been written about this book. I'm a 1st semester nursing student with a background in English and I'm more than a little disgusted by Elsevier's resources so far. I thought the HESI review book was bad, and this book is equally bad. Not only does it have grammar and spelling errors, but there are more substantive errors, too, that really take their toll on your confidence (and patience) while you're reading. There is a ton of filler information so it is nearly impossible to sift and sort out what might be important for each chapter. We're also using an Assessment book by the author Jarvis, and it is way, way ahead of this book in terms of quality control.
And there are still errors in the answer key and the review questions are terribly written.
The latest error I found tonight has me shaking my head:
Page 1046, chapter 42 on Sleep:
Bedtime Snacks
"A dairy product snack such as warm milk or COCOA that contains L-tryptophan is often helpful in promoting sleep..."
Next paragraph: "Encourage clients not to drink or ingest caffeine before bed time. Coffee, tea, cola, and CHOCOLATE act as stimulants, causing a person to stay awake or awaken throughout the night."
Faculty, please please please think twice about adopting this book as part of your curriculum. Don't listen to the publisher's sales people. The online resources that accompany this book are EVEN WORSE, and are filled with mistakes. You'll spend so much time correcting mistakes from this series that you won't have time to teach Fundamentals. good explanations, some annoying grammar mistakes The book goes into great detail explaining individual nursing skills, but throughout the text you will find some run ons and grammar mistakes. Unfortunately, Potter & Perry were too cheap to hire a real editor, so they did all the editing themselves. Must have it! We used this book on our 1st nursing semester. Very helpful and still using it in our 3rd semester. awful book Whatever you do, do not buy this book! Like the other reviewer said it contains many, many errors. The book is also very boring and provides no encouragement to learn at all. All I have to say stay away from this book, it is not helpful at all. Fundamentals of Nursing I know this book is very helpful because it is dealing with the health care industry I did receive the book when I purchase it on time. I was very satisfied with how my purchase turned out |  |
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