Nursing fundamentals : caring & clinical decision making /

Daniels, Rick,

Nursing fundamentals : caring & clinical decision making / Rick Daniels. - Australia ; Clifton Park, NY : Delmar Learning, c2004. - xli, 1589 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
Unit I: Foundations of Nursing Practice.
1.Evolution of Nursing Practice.
2.The Health Care Delivery System.
3.Framework of Practice.
4.The Nurse/Client Relationship.
5.Culture & Ethnicity.
6.Evidence-Based Practice & Nursing Research.
7.Information Systems and Technology.
8.Legal Aspects.
9.Ethical Issues.

Unit II: The Nursing Process & Decision Making.
10.Critical Decision-Making.
11.Assessment.
12.Nursing Diagnosis.
13.Outcome Identification & Planning.
14.Implementation.
15.Evaluation.
16.Documentation & Recording.

Unit III: Client care across the Lifespan.
17.The pediatric Client.
18.The adult Client.
19.The geriatric Client.

Unit IV: Arenas of Client Care.
20.Acute Care.
21.Restorative Care.
22.Home Care.
23.Community Care.

Unit V: Leadership in Nursing.
24.Leadership, Delegation, & Collaboration.
25.Management & Policy.

Unit VI: Concepts of Therapeutic Nursing.
26.Infection Control.
27.Health Assessment.
28.Client Education.
29.Diagnostic Testing.
30.Medication Administration.
31. Complementary/Alternative Therapies.

Section II: Nursing of Human Function.
Unit VII: Health Perception-Health Maintenance.
32.Health Promotion and Wellness.
33.Health Maintenance.
34.Safety.

Unit VIII: Nutritional-Metabolic.
35.Fluid & Electrolytes.
36.Nutrition.
37.Skin Integrity & Wound Healing.

Unit IX: Elimination.
38.Bowel & Urinary Elimination.


Unit X:Activity-Exercise.
39.Mobility & Biomechanics.
40.Oxygenation: Respiratory & Cardiovascular.


Unit X:Sleep-Rest.
41.Sleep & Rest.


Unit XI:Cognitive-Perceptual.
42.Cognition/Perception & Sensation.
43.Pain & Comfort.


Unit XII:Self-perception/self-concept.
44.Self-concept. Unit XIII:Role-Relationship.
45.Role/relationship.
46.Loss & Grief.


Unit XIV:Sexuality-reproductive.
47.Sexuality.


Unit XV:Coping-Stress Tolerance.
48.Stress, Coping & Adaptation.

Unit XVI:Value-Belief.
49.Spiritual Health

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