Books in Nursing fundamentals and skills

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Study Guide for Fundamentals of Nursing

• 10th Edition
• January 31, 2020
• Geralyn Ochs
• English
• eBook 978-0-323-71135-7

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Get the most from your fundamentals course with the Study Guide for Fundamentals of Nursing, 10th Edition! Corresponding to the chapters in Fundamentals of Nursing, 10th Edition, this completely updated study guide helps reinforce your understanding of key nursing concepts through review questions, exercises, and learning activities. New question types and brief case studies help you study and prepare for your exams — at the same time! With the purchase of a new text, bonus online skills checklists walk you through all of the book’s fundamental nursing procedures.

Concepts for Nursing Practice (with Access on VitalSource)

• 3rd Edition
• November 22, 2019
• Jean Foret Giddens
• English
• eBook 978-0-323-59809-5

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Learn the core concepts of nursing care and apply them to the clinical setting! Concepts for Nursing Practice, 3rd Edition uses a simplified, intuitive approach to describe 57 important concepts relating to all areas of nursing practice. For easier understanding, this book also makes connections among related concepts and links you to other nursing textbooks. Exemplars for each concept provide useful examples and models, showing how concepts are successfully applied to practice. New to this edition are updated research evidence and a new Population Health concept. Written by conceptual learning expert Jean Giddens, this text will help you build clinical reasoning skills and prepare confidently for almost any clinical nursing situation.

Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing

• 10th Edition
• October 5, 2019
• Patricia A. Potter + 3 more
• English
• eBook 978-0-323-71131-9

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To find the clinical facts you need to know, make this pocket guide your constant companion! Clinical Companion to Fundamentals of Nursing, 10th 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 your nursing fundamentals course, this reference 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!

Critical Thinking, Clinical Reasoning, and Clinical Judgment

• 7th Edition
• July 23, 2019
• Rosalinda Alfaro-Lefevre
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-58125-7

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• eBook 978-0-323-59472-1

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Develop the critical thinking and reasoning skills you need to make sound clinical judgments! Alfaro-LeFevre's Critical Thinking, Clinical Reasoning, and Clinical Judgment: A Practical Approach, 7th Edition brings these concepts to life through engaging text, diverse learning activities, and real-life examples. Easy-to-understand language and a "how-to" approach equip you to become a sensible, resilient critical thinker with the clinical reasoning skills you need to think think through complex issues and make sound clinical decisions. This edition emphasizes readiness for clinical practice and the Next Generation NCLEX exam, with a focus on systems thinking, interprofessional practice, nursing skills for the 21st century, and Quality and Safety for Nursing Education (QSEN) competencies.

Study Guide for Fundamentals of Nursing

• 2nd Edition
• February 28, 2019
• Barbara L Yoost + 2 more
• English
• eBook 978-0-323-62490-9

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Coordinated chapter-by-chapter to the new second edition of Yoost and Crawford’s Fundamentals of Nursing, this engaging study tool encompasses a wealth of activities and features — like case study questions, study group challenges, self-review questions, and more — to keep your learning interactive, meaningful, and fun. For chapters that include skills, detailed and interactive skills checklists will be provided on the Fundamentals of Nursing Evolve website. Answers to all questions will be included in the back of the study guide to help you assess your learning.

Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing

• 2nd Edition
• January 29, 2019
• Barbara L Yoost + 1 more
• English
• eBook 978-0-323-59731-9

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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, 2nd Edition 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! Take advantage of the new body system assessment chapters, new guidelines on preventing pressure ulcers, and a new section on health care terminology. Best of all, the facts and figures housed in this compact reference are organized using tabs, lists, and outlines to make the process of finding the right information a fast one.

Fundamentals of Nursing

• 2nd Edition
• January 23, 2019
• Barbara L Yoost + 1 more
• English
• eBook 978-0-323-54739-0

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Yoost and Crawford’s Fundamentals of Nursing is back for a second-edition encore! The text that made its name by focusing on simple language and active learning continues its focus on helping you truly understand, apply, and retain important nursing information and concepts. Using a warm and conversational style, this new second edition guides you towards a basic understanding of the nursing profession and then logically progresses through the nursing process and into the safe and systematic methods of applying care. Each chapter features realistic and complex case studies and critical thinking exercises woven throughout the content to help you continually apply what you've learned to actual patient care. A conceptual care mapping approach — created by Yoost and Crawford themselves — further your ability to make clinical judgments and synthesize knowledge as you develop plans of care after analyzing and clustering related patient assessment data. All of this paired with a wealth of student-friendly learning features and clinically-focused content offers up a fundamentally different — and effective — way for you to easily master the fundamentals of nursing.

Guía Mosby de habilidades y procedimientos en enfermería

• 9th Edition
• January 23, 2019
• Anne G. Perry + 1 more
• Spanish
• eBook 978-84-9113-420-6

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Esta práctica guía de bolsillo presenta 86 habilidades y procedimientos de enfermería en un formato simple y ordenados de la A a la Z. Está dirigida tanto a los estudiantes de Enfermería como a los profesionales en ejercicio. Entre las nuevas habilidades de enfermería se incluyen las instrucciones para realizar un electrocardiograma de 12 derivaciones y aplicar un monitor cardíaco, dos elementos vitales en la asistencia cardiológica. Las alertas de seguridad destacan la información fundamental para garantizar la seguridad del paciente y la ejecución eficaz de las habilidades y los apartados «Resultados no deseados e intervenciones relacionadas» ayudan a identificar los posibles problemas y a tomar las medidas adecuadas para abordarlos. Asimismo, se incluyen consideraciones especiales respecto a la enseñanza de los procedimientos al paciente, los cuidados domiciliarios y las especificaciones para pacientes pediátricos y ancianos. El diseño a dos columnas muestra, a la izquierda, cómo llevar a cabo las habilidades y, a la derecha, los fundamentos de cada paso, exponiendo la razón que subyace a la práctica y el beneficio que su desempeño aporta a los pacientes.

Learning to Care

• 1st Edition
• January 9, 2019
• Ian Peate
• English
• Paperback 978-0-7020-7605-3

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• eBook 978-0-7020-7795-1

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Edited by a world-renowned authority, Learning to Care has been prepared by a team of experienced nurse educationalists and practitioners to meet the learning needs of the new Nursing Associate. Richly illustrated throughout, this exciting resource is designed to fully equip trainee nursing associates for their future role as professional healthcare providers with chapters ranging from ‘how to learn’ and essay writing to communication skills, reflective practice, and the role of evidence-based clinical decision making. Complete with a full exploration of basic anatomy and physiology, together with the care and treatment of common disorders, Learning to Care also comes with a wide range of helpful learning features such as ‘Hot Spots’ and the ‘Medicine Trolley’, all designed to aid learning and help foster safe clinical practice. The volume comes complete with a downloadable image bank to assist with assignments. Learning to Care will be ideal for all Trainee Nursing Associates and Health Care Assistants wishing to enhance their knowledge-base as well as those on Enrolled Nurse programs overseas.

Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills

• 7th Edition
• January 8, 2019
• Anne G. Perry + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-54701-7

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• eBook 978-0-323-57103-6

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Master nursing skills with this guide from the respected Perry, Potter & Ostendorf author team! The concise coverage in Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills, 7th Edition makes it easy to learn the skills most commonly used in everyday nursing practice. Clear, step-by-step instructions cover more than 160 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills — from measuring body temperature to insertion of a peripheral intravenous device — using evidence-based concepts to improve patient safety and outcomes. A streamlined, visual approach makes the book easy to read, and an Evolve companion website enhances learning with review questions and handy checklists for each clinical skill.