Contents:

Unit 1 Theory and Application of Nursing Practice

Unit 2 Factors Affecting Health

Unit 3 Essential Nursing Interventions

Unit 4 Supporting Physiological Functioning

Unit 5 Nursing Functions

Unit 6 Context for Nurses Work

Index

Thinking. Doing. Caring. Connect nursing theory to clinical practice with 46 in-depth, real-world case studies. For each case study, answer questions that call on you to recall facts, understand nursing concepts, apply critical thinking, and sharpen your clinical reasoning skills in common clinical situations. Common terms and phrases: 2012 NANDA International abdomen activities admission Alanna alendronate sodium appropriate asepsis assessment data assigned bowel sounds breathing burn injuries cardiac clinical communication congestive heart failure COPD cultural defining characteristics Describe developmental diabetes Discuss dressing ensure enteral feedings etiology evaluation facilitate factors feeding feel fluids Give a rationale goal health history Health Promotion health status healthcare Hmong hospital hypocalcemia identifies a nursing implement indicated individualized infection Ka’uhane learning lifestyle long-term care facility lung Malinda McClelland medications mL/hr NOC outcome Novolog nursing diagnosis nursing interventions Nursing Orders nursing practice nursing process nursing student nursing theory nutritional oral oxygen pain patient patient’s Penrose drain Percocet physical primary care provider problem procedure regarding rehabilitation Reports resident respiratory response risk role Sasha situation skin sleep strategies surgical Tanisha teaching tells therapy tube unit vital signs wound