Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing
Active Learning for Collaborative Practice
- 4th Edition - February 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Author: Barbara L. Yoost
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 4 8 9 9 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 4 9 0 0 - 3
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Keep all the hard-to-remember nursing information with you right at the point of care with this portable, easy-to-use clinical reference. Organized with your clinical experience in mind, this Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing: Active Learning for Collaborative Practice features all the facts, terms, charts, graphs, numbers, and abbreviations you need to know from the time you see your first patient and all the patients after!
- Clinical Judgment in Nursing helps guide students through how to develop and apply clinical judgment skills in the clinical setting
- Completely updated with the latest care standards throughout
- Body system assessment chapters help you learn to take a systematic and thorough approach to health assessment
- Updated guidelines for pressure injury prevention and care can now be referenced quickly while on the job
- Section on health care terminology helps you better understand clinical terms as they are encountered
- Detailed information on calculations, safety, compatibilities, conversions, administration, and more help you prevent medication errors and ensure safe practice
- Tabular, list, and outline formats for content make information easy to find and review
- Small, portable size makes the information easy to carry around during clinical practice
Nursing students in 2-year and 4-year programs
1. Nursing, Theory, and Professional Practice
2. Values, Beliefs, and Caring
3. Communication
4. Clinical Judgment in Nursing
5. Introduction to the Nursing Process
6. Assessment
7. Data Analysis/Nursing Diagnosis
8. Planning
9. Implementation and Evaluation
10. Documentation, Electronic Health Records, and Reporting
11. Ethical and Legal Considerations
12. Leadership and Management
13. Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing Research
14. Health Literacy and Patient Education
15. Nursing Informatics
16. Health and Wellness
17. Human Development: Conception Through Adolescence
18. Human Development: Young Adult Through Older Adult
19. Vital Signs
20. Health History and Physical Assessment
21. Ethnicity and Cultural Assessment
22. Spiritual Health
23. Public Health, Community-Based, and Home Health Care
24. Human Sexuality
25. Safety Chapter 26: Asepsis and Infection control
27. Hygiene and Personal Care
28. Activity, Immobility, and Safe Movement
29. Skin Integrity and Wound Care
30. Nutrition
31. Cognitive and Sensory Alterations
32. Stress and Coping
33. Sleep
34. Diagnostic Testing
35. Medication Administration
36. Pain Management
37. Perioperative Nursing Care
38. Oxygenation and Tissue Perfusion
39. Fluid, Electrolytes, and Acid-Base Balance
40. Bowel Elimination
41. Urinary Elimination
42. Death and Loss
2. Values, Beliefs, and Caring
3. Communication
4. Clinical Judgment in Nursing
5. Introduction to the Nursing Process
6. Assessment
7. Data Analysis/Nursing Diagnosis
8. Planning
9. Implementation and Evaluation
10. Documentation, Electronic Health Records, and Reporting
11. Ethical and Legal Considerations
12. Leadership and Management
13. Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing Research
14. Health Literacy and Patient Education
15. Nursing Informatics
16. Health and Wellness
17. Human Development: Conception Through Adolescence
18. Human Development: Young Adult Through Older Adult
19. Vital Signs
20. Health History and Physical Assessment
21. Ethnicity and Cultural Assessment
22. Spiritual Health
23. Public Health, Community-Based, and Home Health Care
24. Human Sexuality
25. Safety Chapter 26: Asepsis and Infection control
27. Hygiene and Personal Care
28. Activity, Immobility, and Safe Movement
29. Skin Integrity and Wound Care
30. Nutrition
31. Cognitive and Sensory Alterations
32. Stress and Coping
33. Sleep
34. Diagnostic Testing
35. Medication Administration
36. Pain Management
37. Perioperative Nursing Care
38. Oxygenation and Tissue Perfusion
39. Fluid, Electrolytes, and Acid-Base Balance
40. Bowel Elimination
41. Urinary Elimination
42. Death and Loss
- Edition: 4
- Latest edition
- Published: February 1, 2026
- Language: English
BY
Barbara L. Yoost
Affiliations and expertise
Emerita Faculty, Kent State University College of Nursing, USA