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.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. i 4. Table of Contents - p. i 5. Copyright - p. ii 6. Preface - p. iii 7. chapter 1. Medical, Nursing, and Health Professions Terminology - p. 1 8. Chapter 2. Communication - p. 34 9. Chapter 3. Interprofessional Collaboration and Delegation - p. 53 10. chapter 4. Clinical Judgment and the Nursing Process - p. 61 11. Chapter 5. Documentation - p. 72 12. Chapter 6. Patient Interview - p. 78 13. Chapter 7. Vital Signs - p. 86 14. Chapter 8. Physical Assessment - p. 103 15. Chapter 9. Pain Assessment - p. 108 16. Chapter 10. Skin, Hair, and Nail Assessment - p. 114 17. Chapter 11. Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Throat Assessment (HEENT) - p. 130 18. ChapTer 12. Respiratory Assessment - p. 146 19. chapter 13. Cardiac and Peripheral Vascular Assessment - p. 158 20. chapter 14. Musculoskeletal Assessment - p. 168 21. chapter 15. Neurological Assessment - p. 175 22. Chapter 16. Abdominal Assessment - p. 197 23. chapter 17. Breast and Genital Assessment - p. 213 24. chapter 18. Safety - p. 219 25. Chapter 19. Equivalents and Dosage Calculation - p. 235 26. CHAPTER 20. Medication Administration - p. 242 27. Chapter 21. Infection Control - p. 260 28. Chapter 22. Mobility and Positioning - p. 272 29. Chapter 23. Personal Care - p. 285 30. Chapter 24. Wound Care - p. 298 31. Chapter 25. Oxygen Administration - p. 311 32. Chapter 26. Nutrition and Diets - p. 321 33. Chapter 27. Diagnostic Testing and Procedures - p. 332 34. Chapter 28. Preoperative and Postoperative Care - p. 356 35. Chapter 29. Emergent Clinical Situations - p. 373 36. Chapter 30. Death and Dying - p. 379 37. Index - p. 391
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.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. i 4. Table of Contents - p. i 5. Copyright - p. ii 6. Preface - p. iii 7. chapter 1. Medical, Nursing, and Health Professions Terminology - p. 1 8. Chapter 2. Communication - p. 34 9. Chapter 3. Interprofessional Collaboration and Delegation - p. 53 10. chapter 4. Clinical Judgment and the Nursing Process - p. 61 11. Chapter 5. Documentation - p. 72 12. Chapter 6. Patient Interview - p. 78 13. Chapter 7. Vital Signs - p. 86 14. Chapter 8. Physical Assessment - p. 103 15. Chapter 9. Pain Assessment - p. 108 16. Chapter 10. Skin, Hair, and Nail Assessment - p. 114 17. Chapter 11. Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Throat Assessment (HEENT) - p. 130 18. ChapTer 12. Respiratory Assessment - p. 146 19. chapter 13. Cardiac and Peripheral Vascular Assessment - p. 158 20. chapter 14. Musculoskeletal Assessment - p. 168 21. chapter 15. Neurological Assessment - p. 175 22. Chapter 16. Abdominal Assessment - p. 197 23. chapter 17. Breast and Genital Assessment - p. 213 24. chapter 18. Safety - p. 219 25. Chapter 19. Equivalents and Dosage Calculation - p. 235 26. CHAPTER 20. Medication Administration - p. 242 27. Chapter 21. Infection Control - p. 260 28. Chapter 22. Mobility and Positioning - p. 272 29. Chapter 23. Personal Care - p. 285 30. Chapter 24. Wound Care - p. 298 31. Chapter 25. Oxygen Administration - p. 311 32. Chapter 26. Nutrition and Diets - p. 321 33. Chapter 27. Diagnostic Testing and Procedures - p. 332 34. Chapter 28. Preoperative and Postoperative Care - p. 356 35. Chapter 29. Emergent Clinical Situations - p. 373 36. Chapter 30. Death and Dying - p. 379 37. Index - p. 391
