Fundamentals of nursing : standards & practice / edited by Sue C.Delaune, Patricia K. Ladner ; Holly Skodol Wilson, Lynn Keegan

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
Unit 1 Nursing's perspective - past, present and future
1. Evolution of nursing and health care
2. Theoretical foundations of nursing
3. Nursing education and research.

Unit 2 The individual and health care
4. The individual, health and holism
5. The life cycle
6. Cultural diversity and nursing.

Unit 3 Delivery of health care
7. The health-care delivery system
8. Nursing and alternative-treatment modalities
9. Quality management.

Unit 4 Professional accountability and empowerment
10. Professional accountability and leadership
11. Legal responsibilities
12. Ethical responsibilities.

Unit 5 The therapeutic nature of nursing
13. Nursing, healing and caring
14. Therapeutic interaction.

Unit 6 Nursing process - the standard of care
15. Nursing process as a therapeutic framework
16. Assessment
17. Physical assessment and vital signs
18. Nursing diagnosis
19. Outcome identification and planning
20. Implementation
21. Evaluation
22. Documentation of the therapeutic process.

Unit 7 Application of the nursing process
23. Stress, anxiety and adaptation
24. Responding to loss and grief
25. Responding to knowledge deficits
26. Responding to the special needs of the elderly
27. Responding to the client undergoing diagnostic testing
28. Responding to the peri-operative client.

Unit 8 Elemental standards of care and protocols for care
29. Self-concept
30. Safety and hygiene
31. Oxygenation
32. Comfort and sleep
33. Medication administration
34. Mobility
35. Skin integrity
36. Cognitive and sensory perception
37. Metabolism
38. Nutrition
39. Elimination.