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Basic Nursing: Essentials for Practice, 6th Edition
Patricia A. Potter, RN, MSN, PhD, CMAC, FAAN;
and Anne Griffin Perry, RN, MSN, EdD, FAAN
2006 | 1,200 pp., 650 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-323-03937-6 |
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This student-friendly textbook provides complete coverage of the essential nursing principles, concepts, and skills that are the foundation of a solid nursing education. You and your students will appreciate the logically organized, streamlined content, the 5-step nursing process framework, and the strong focus on critical thinking. Plus, this new edition takes teaching and learning to another dimension with a new one-of-a-kind, interactive course, Nursing Skills Online! |
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NEW FEATURES
- A Companion CD, bound into each text, includes 47 video clips, a searchable audio glossary, a Spanish/English audio glossary, Butterfield’s Fluids & Electrolytes Tutorial, and 370 NCLEX® examination-style review questions.
- Community Based Nursing Practice chapter explores the characteristics of patients from vulnerable populations that influence a nurse’s approach to assessment and care.
- UNIQUE! Using Evidence In Practice boxes summarize the results of important research studies and their effects on nursing practice.
- UNIQUE! Critical Thinking In Practice sections at the end of each chapter challenge students to apply what they’ve learned to realistic case studies.
- NCLEX® examination-style review questions are featured at the end of each chapter and include new alternate item format questions.
- UNIQUE! Focused Client Assessment boxes include factors to assess, questions to ask, and physical assessment strategies to help students learn how to effectively phrase questions during client assessment, as well as perform a targeted physical assessment.
- Patient Teaching boxes are linked to case studies and include an outcome statement, teaching strategies, and notes on how to evaluate learning.
- Cultural Focus boxes summarize important cultural considerations as they relate to the chapter case study and chapter topics.
OUTSTANDING FEATURES
- The 5-step nursing process is used throughout to provide a consistent framework for each clinical chapter.
- Care Plans based on the case studies demonstrate how to apply the 5-step nursing process to individual patient problems to help students understand how a plan is developed and how to evaluate care.
- Continuing Case Studies provide rich, realistic, ongoing examples of how to apply the nursing process and think critically by introducing a patient and a nurse in each clinical chapter and following their interactions for each step of the nursing process.
- Unexpected Outcomes And Related Interventions are listed for each skill and alert students to possible problems and appropriate nursing actions.
- Skills are presented in an easy-to-use 2-column format that follows the 5-step nursing process and includes rationales for each step that clearly explain both how and why steps are performed.
- Care of the Older Adult boxes highlight key aspects of nursing assessment and care for older adults.
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