Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing
- 12th Edition - March 4, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Patricia A. Potter, Anne G. Perry, Patricia A. Stockert, Amy Hall, Wendy R. Ostendorf
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 7 8 3 1 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 7 8 3 2 - 7
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Request a sales quoteMake this portable pocket reference your constant companion in the clinical setting! The Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing, 12th Edition, includes the hard-to-remember facts, lab values, and abbreviations that are essential to providing optimal nursing care. Organized by the major concepts and principles of a nursing fundamentals course, this text features a quick-access format with summary tables and bulleted lists. The Clinical Companion makes retrieving, reviewing, and retaining clinical facts and figures easier than ever!
- NEW! Completely updated content reflects the latest care standards throughout
- ENHANCED! Content on seizures, bleeding or hemorrhage, choking, confused patients, alcohol withdrawal, syncope, and medication is now easier to find in the Emergent Clinical Situations chapter
- Clinical Judgment chapter guides you through how to develop and apply clinical judgment skills in the clinical setting
- Body system assessment chapters help you learn to take a systematic and thorough approach to health assessment
- Detailed information on drug calculations, safety, compatibilities, conversions, administration, and more help you prevent medication errors and ensure safe practice
- Current guidelines for pressure ulcer prevention and care can now be referenced quickly while on the job
- Health care terminology section provides you with a better understanding of clinical terms as they are encountered
- Tabular, list, and outline content formats make information easy to find and review
- Small, portable size makes this resource easy to carry around during clinical practice
Nursing students in 2-year and 4-year programs
- Clinical Companion Fundamentals of Nursing
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- 1. Medical, nursing, and health professions terminology
- Abbreviations
- The joint commission “do not use” list
- Roots
- Prefixes
- Suffixes
- For additional information on medical, nursing, and health professions terminology, consult the following:
- 2. Communication
- Active listening techniques
- Verbal therapeutic communication techniques
- Nonverbal therapeutic communication techniques
- Nontherapeutic communication
- Defense mechanisms
- Communication in special circumstances
- Hearing impaired
- Visually impaired
- Physically or cognitively impaired
- For additional information on communication, consult the following:
- 3. Interprofessional collaboration and delegation
- Interprofessional colleagues
- Professional websites
- Rights of delegation
- Tasks that can and cannot be delegated
- For additional information on interprofessional collaboration and delegation, consult the following:
- 4. Clinical judgment and the nursing process
- Clinical judgment
- Nursing process
- Assessment
- Analysis and nursing diagnosis
- Planning and outcomes identification
- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs applied to patient data
- Implementation
- Evaluation
- Conceptual care mapping
- For additional information on the nursing process and care planning, consult the following:
- 5. Documentation
- Documentation
- Effective documentation
- Documentation formats
- Electronic health record
- Paper charting
- Handoff reporting
- SBAR reporting
- HIPAA
- Social media
- For additional information on documentation, consult the following:
- 6. Patient interview
- Framework for collecting health history data
- General health information assessment questions
- Medication/vitamin/herbal supplement assessment questions
- Drug history and current use
- Medication schedule
- Medication response
- Medication compliance
- Medication safety
- Cultural assessment questions
- Communication
- Space
- Social organization
- Time
- Environmental control
- Biologic variations
- Spiritual assessment questions
- Sleep assessment questions
- Sexuality assessment questions
- For additional information on interviewing patients, consult the following:
- 7. Vital signs
- Situations that require vital sign assessment
- Vital sign ranges across the life span
- Temperature
- Clinical signs of fever
- Average adult temperature ranges at different body sites
- Factors affecting temperature
- Temperature-related disorders
- Pulse
- Average adult pulse rate range
- Rhythm
- Pulse deficit
- Apical pulse assessment
- Peripheral pulse intensity
- Factors affecting pulse rate
- Pulse sites
- Respiration
- Average adult respiratory rate range
- Respiratory patterns including depth and quality
- Adventitious breath sounds
- Factors affecting respiratory rate and depth
- Oxygen saturation
- Normal range of oxygen saturation (SpO2)
- Factors that affect oxygen saturation
- Blood pressure
- Categories for blood pressure levels in adults
- Korotkoff sounds
- Blood pressure cuff sizing
- Causes of false blood pressure readings
- Orthostatic hypotension
- For additional information on vital sign assessment, consult the following:
- 8. Physical assessment
- General survey
- Preparation
- Appearance
- Skin
- Hair
- Nails
- Neurologic
- Musculoskeletal
- Cardiovascular
- Respiratory
- Gastrointestinal
- Genitourinary
- Assessment techniques
- Light palpation
- Deep manual palpation
- For additional information on physical assessment, consult the following:
- 9. Pain assessment
- Pain assessment questions
- Universal pain assessment tool
- Pain assessment mnemonics
- SOCRATES
- PQRST
- OLDCARTS
- Clinical manifestations of pain
- Timing of pain assessment after treatment
- American Nurses Association position statement on pain management
- For additional information on pain assessment, consult the following:
- 10. Skin, hair, and nail assessment
- Skin, hair, and nail health assessment questions
- Skin inspection and palpation
- Color
- Documentation of pitting edema
- Primary skin lesions
- Pressure injuries and braden scale
- Types of skin cancer
- Screening for melanoma
- Hair inspection and palpation
- Distribution and abnormalities
- Nail inspection and palpation
- Capillary refill assessment
- Nail abnormalities
- For additional information on skin, hair, and nail assessment, consult the following:
- 11. Head, eyes, ears, nose, and throat assessment (HEENT)
- Head, eyes, ears, nose, and throat health assessment questions
- Head and neck
- Eyes
- Ears
- Nose
- Mouth and throat
- Head inspection and palpation
- Normal eye anatomy
- Eye inspection and palpation
- Six fields of vision
- Pupillary size chart
- Assessment of pupillary light reflex
- Conditions affecting visual acuity
- Normal ear anatomy
- Ear inspection
- Conditions affecting hearing acuity
- Nose and sinus inspection and palpation
- Mouth and throat inspection and palpation
- Jaw and lymph node inspection and palpation
- Neck inspection, palpation, and auscultation
- For additional information on HEENT assessment, consult the following:
- 12. Respiratory assessment
- Respiratory health assessment questions
- Respiratory system
- Chest inspection and palpation
- Breathing inspection
- Conditions affecting respiratory effort
- Signs and symptoms of hyperventilation
- Signs and symptoms of hypoventilation
- Signs and symptoms of hypoxia
- Auscultation of the lungs
- Systematic pattern for auscultation
- Normal breath sounds
- Adventitious breath sounds
- For additional information on respiratory assessment, consult the following:
- 13. Cardiac and peripheral vascular assessment
- Cardiovascular health assessment questions
- Structure of the heart
- Heart inspection and palpation
- Auscultation of the heart
- Peripheral vascular inspection and palpation
- For additional information on cardiovascular assessment, consult the following:
- 14. Musculoskeletal assessment
- Musculoskeletal health assessment questions
- Musculoskeletal inspection and palpation
- Possible spinal abnormalities
- Deep and cutaneous tendon reflex assessment
- Reflex responses
- Types of fractures
- For additional information on musculoskeletal assessment, consult the following:
- 15. Neurological assessment
- Neurological health assessment questions
- Functions of each area of the brain
- Cranial nerves
- Cranial nerve function and assessment
- Sensory nerve assessment
- Sensory focused health assessment questions
- Sensory nerve pathways
- Motor nerve and coordination assessment
- Mental status assessment
- Orientation and mental status questions
- Glasgow coma scale
- Cognitive function assessment
- Cognition focused health assessment questions
- Cognitive physical assessment concerns
- Emotional assessment
- Stress and coping health assessment topics and questions
- Fight-or-flight response
- For additional information on neurological assessment, consult the following:
- 16. Abdominal assessment
- Abdominal health assessment questions
- Gastrointestinal tract
- Urinary tract
- Gastrointestinal system
- Urinary system
- Abdominal inspection, auscultation, and palpation
- Abdominal quadrants
- Conditions affecting bowel elimination
- Fecal characteristics
- Types of common bowel ostomies ileostomy
- Transverse colostomy
- Descending colostomy and sigmoid colostomy
- Continent ileostomy
- Bladder assessment
- Ultrasound bladder scanner
- Conditions affecting urination
- Urine characteristics
- Types of common bladder ostomies
- Urinary diversion (ileal conduit)
- Continent urostomy
- For additional information on abdominal assessment, consult the following:
- 17. Breast and genital assessment
- Breast and genital health assessment questions
- Breasts: Male and female
- Female genitals
- Male genitals
- Breast inspection and palpation
- Breast quadrants
- External female genitalia
- External female genitalia inspection and palpation
- External male genitalia
- External male genitalia inspection and palpation
- For additional information on breast and genital assessment, consult the following:
- 18. Safety
- Patient safety in the hospital setting
- Life span safety considerations
- Infant, toddler, and preschooler
- School age
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Older adult
- Poison safety
- Fire safety
- Morse fall scale assessment
- Fall prevention
- Fall prevention at the hospital
- Fall assessment checklist
- Fall prevention at home
- Restraints
- When to use restraints
- Types of restraints
- Guidelines
- Complications
- Prevention
- How to tie a quick-release restraint tie
- Home safety assessment
- Quick-release restraint tie
- For additional information on safety, consult the following:
- 19. Equivalents and dosage calculation
- Equivalent measures
- Metric system
- Apothecary system
- Household system
- Dosage calculations
- Methods of dosage calculation
- Ratio and proportion
- Formula
- Intravenous (IV) calculations
- For additional information on equivalents and dosage calculations, consult the following:
- 20. Medication administration
- Medication terminology
- Controlled substances
- Medication administration safety
- Seven rights of medication administration
- Additional checks before medication administration
- Other medication administration safety information
- Adverse allergic reactions to medications
- Routes of administration
- Injection information
- Syringes and needle sizes
- Angles of insertion
- Subcutaneous injection sites
- Intramuscular injection sites
- Z-track
- Intravenous infusions
- IV types
- Common IV solutions
- Blood administration
- Administering blood to a patient
- Drug in syringe compatibility
- Blood reactions
- Blood type compatibility
- For additional information on medication administration, consult the following:
- 21. Infection control
- Hand hygiene
- Guidelines
- Handwashing with soap and water
- Hand sanitizer
- Surgical hand scrub
- Personal protective equipment
- General information
- Gloves
- Masks
- Gowns
- Eye protection
- Caps
- Shoe coverings
- Precautions
- Centers for disease control and prevention isolation guidelines
- Standard precautions (tier one) for use with all patients
- Medical asepsis versus surgical asepsis
- For additional information on infection control, consult the following:
- 22. Mobility and positioning
- Types of joints
- Primary joint classifications
- Types of synovial joints
- Positioning
- Transfers
- Mechanical lifts
- Transfer assistive devices
- Assistive devices
- Canes
- Crutches
- Walkers
- For additional information on mobility and positioning, consult the following:
- 23. Personal care
- Bathing and hygiene
- Assessment of hygiene needs
- Bathing basics
- Bathing
- Perineal care
- Hand and foot care
- Massage
- Hair care
- Oral care
- Eye care
- Nose care
- Ear care
- Shaving
- Elimination
- Toileting
- Intake and output
- Average daily fluid intake and output
- Bedpan, urinal, urine hat, bedside commode
- Urinary catheters
- Altered bowel elimination patterns
- For additional information on personal care, consult the following:
- 24. Wound care
- Focused wound assessment questions
- Pressure injury risk assessment
- Standardized risk assessment scales
- Braden scale
- Norton scale
- Possible sites of pressure injuries
- Friction and shear
- Classification of pressure injuries
- Stage 1 pressure injury
- Stage 2 pressure injury
- Stage 3 pressure injury
- Stage 4 pressure injury
- Unstageable pressure injury
- Deep tissue pressure injury
- Wound assessment
- Wound assessment during a dressing change
- Documentation
- Wound care
- Types of dressings
- Wound cleansing and irrigation
- Other wound care interventions
- For additional information on wound care, consult the following:
- 25. Oxygen administration
- Pulmonary function tests
- Oxygen therapy
- Nasal cannula
- Simple face mask
- Partial rebreather mask
- Nonrebreather mask
- Venturi mask
- Tracheostomy mask
- Face tent
- Common lung disorders
- Asthma
- Atelectasis
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchitis
- Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2 or Coronavirus)
- Emphysema
- Neoplasm
- Pleural effusion
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Pulmonary edema
- For additional information on oxygen administration, consult the following:
- 26. Nutrition and diets
- Essential components of the digestive system
- Nutrition assessment
- MyPlate recommendations
- Nutrients
- Vitamins
- Minerals
- Assistance with feeding an adult
- Types of diets
- Enteral tube feeding
- Provides nutrients into the GI tract
- Parenteral nutrition (PN)
- Indications for enteral and parenteral nutrition
- For additional information on nutrition and diets, consult the following:
- 27. Diagnostic testing and procedures
- Specimen collection
- Blood collection tubes
- Culture and sensitivity specimen collection
- Laboratory tests: Blood
- Complete blood count (CBC)
- Coagulation studies
- Basic metabolic panel
- Other electrolytes
- Common electrolyte imbalances
- Hemoglobin A1C (Hb A1c, glycosylated hemoglobin)
- Kidney function tests
- Liver function tests
- Lipid profile
- Cardiac function tests
- Arterial blood gases (ABGs)
- Therapeutic drug monitoring
- Laboratory tests: Urine
- Urinalysis
- 24-hour urine for creatinine clearance
- Laboratory tests: Stool
- Laboratory tests: Culture and sensitivity
- Diagnostic examinations
- For additional information on diagnostic testing and procedures, consult the following:
- 28. Preoperative and postoperative care
- Preoperative teaching
- Coughing and deep breathing
- Incentive spirometry
- Leg exercises
- Splinting of the incision area
- Preoperative checklist
- Postoperative nursing care
- Postanesthesia care unit (PACU)
- Nursing unit
- Postoperative complications
- For additional information on preoperative and postoperative care, consult the following:
- 29. Emergent clinical situations
- Myocardial infarction (MI)
- Cardiac arrest
- Pulmonary embolism
- Stroke
- Bleeding or hemorrhage
- Hyperglycemia
- Hypoglycemia
- The confused patient
- Alcohol withdrawal
- Choking
- Seizures
- Terminology
- Syncope and common causes
- Shock
- Medication reactions
- Suicide potential
- For additional information on emergent clinical situations, consult the following:
- 30. Death and dying
- Legal terminology related to death
- Advance directives
- Coroner’s case
- Death certificate
- Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders
- Establishing the time of death
- Final disposition
- Hospice
- Palliative care
- Persistent vegetative state
- Postmortem or autopsy
- Pronouncement
- Stages of dying and grief
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
- Nursing care for the patient who is dying
- Assessment of the dying patient
- Personal care
- Special needs
- Caring for the family
- Nursing interventions after death
- Hospice care in the home
- Organ donation
- For additional information on death and dying, consult the following:
- Index
- Edition: 12
- Published: March 4, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443278310
- eBook ISBN: 9780443278327
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Patricia A. Potter
Patricia A. Potter, RN, MSN, PhD, FAAN is a Former Director of Research, Patient Care Services Barnes-Jewish Hospital St. Louis, Missouri.
Affiliations and expertise
Formerly, Director of Research, Patient Care Services, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, USAAP
Anne G. Perry
Anne Griffin Perry, RN, MSN, EdD, FAAN is a Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, Southern Illinois University—Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois, USAPS
Patricia A. Stockert
Patricia Stockert, RN, BSN, MS, PhD is the President of the College, Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing, Peoria, Illinois.
Affiliations and expertise
Formerly, President, College of Nursing, Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing, Peoria, IllinoisAH
Amy Hall
Amy Hall, RN, BSN, MS, PhD, CNE, Professor and Dean, School of Nursing, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Dean, School of Nursing, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University, Baton Rouge, LouisianaWO
Wendy R. Ostendorf
Wendy R. Ostendorf, Contributing Faculty, Masters of Science in Nursing, Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA,
Affiliations and expertise
Contributing Faculty, Masters of Science in Nursing, Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA