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Foundations of Nursing, 5th Edition
Barbara Lauritsen Christensen, MS, RN;
and Elaine Oden Kockrow, MS, RN
2006 | 1,392 pp., 460 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-323-03341-1 |
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Part of the popular LPN Threads series, Foundations of Nursing provides coverage of all the fundamental content and skills your students need to know, including entire units covering maternal and neonatal, pediatric, geriatric, mental health, and community content. When used in conjunction with Christensen: Adult Health Nursing, both provide complete LPN curriculum content coverage necessary to pass the NCLEX-PN® examination! |
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NEW TO THIS EDITION
- Companion CD, bound into each text, includes 410 NCLEX® examination-style multiple-choice and alternate item review questions, a critical thinking review, 15 animations, 15 video clips, Spanish-English phrases, and a mathematics review.
- Surgical Wound Care chapter covers wound care and related skills, including a skill on Wound Vacuum Assisted Closure (V.A.C.®).
- Includes Health Promotion Considerations, Delegation Considerations, and Safety Consideration boxes throughout.
- Bioterrorism/terrorism content has been expanded in the Safety chapter to include the nursing response to biological attacks, nuclear attacks and radiation syndrome, and chemical terrorism.
OUTSTANDING FEATURES
- A friendly design, packed with practical learning features, including Critical Thinking Questions at the end of Nursing Care Plans and NCLEX® exam-style review questions at the end of each chapter.
- The nursing process is consistently applied to the discussion of disorders and appears in summary form at the end of each chapter.
- Over 100 skills presented in a step-by-step format with clearly defined nursing actions and rationales.
- Nursing Diagnosis boxes with nursing diagnoses for specific disorders paired with the appropriate nursing interventions.
- A unique mathematics review in the Mathematics Review and Medication Administration chapter with complete coverage of basic arithmetic skills before students advance to medication administration content.
- UNIQUE! Medication tables provide quick access to action, dosage, precautions, and nursing considerations for commonly used drugs.
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