Fundamentals of nursing : caring and clinical judgement / Helen Harkreader & Mary Ann Hogan.

Contents;

SECTION 1: THE CONTEXT OF NURSING PRACTICE
Unit 1: The Social Context of Nursing
1. The Nursing Profession
2. Legal and Ethical Context of Practice
3. Cultural Context of Practice
4. The Health Care Delivery System

Unit 2: A Framework for Nursing Practice
5. Caring and Clinical Judgment
6. Client Assessment: Nursing History
7. Assessing Vital Signs
8. Physical Assessment
9. Nursing Diagnosis
10. Planning, Intervening, and Evaluating
11. Documenting Care

Unit 3: The Tools of Practice
12. The Nurse-Client Relationship
13. Client Teaching
14. Managing Client Care
15. Nursing Research

Unit 4: The Well Client Across the Life Span
16. Infancy Through Adolescence
17. The Young, Middle, and Older Adult

SECTION 2: NURSING CARE FOR FUNCTIONAL HEALTH
Unit 5: Health Perception-Health Management Pattern
18. Health Perception
19. Health Maintenance: Lifestyle Management
20. Health Maintenance: Medication Management
21. Health Protection: Risk for Infection
22. Health Protection: Risk for Injury

Unit 6: Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern
23. Promoting Healthy Nutrition
24. Restoring Nutrition
25. Maintaining Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
26. Promoting Wound Healing
27. Managing Body Temperature

Unit 7: Elimination Pattern
28. Managing Bowel Elimination
29. Managing Urinary Elimination

Unit 8: Activity-Exercise Pattern
30. Managing Self Care Deficit
31. Restoring Physical Mobility
32. Preventing Disuse Syndrome
33. Supporting Respiratory Function
34. Supporting Cardiovascular Function

Unit 9: Sleep-Rest Pattern
35. Managing Sleep and Rest Unit
10: Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern
36. Managing Pain
37. Supporting Sensory/Perceptual Function
38. Supporting Verbal Communication
39. Managing Confusion

Unit 11: Self-Perception-Self-Concept Pattern
40. Promoting Self-Concept
41. Managing Anxiety
42. Managing Vulnerability

Unit 12: Role-Relationship Pattern
43. Managing Functional Limitations
44. Managing Loss

Unit 13: Sexuality-Reproductive Pattern
45. Maintaining Sexual Health

Unit 14: Coping--Stress-Tolerance Pattern
46. Supporting Stress Tolerance and Coping
47. Supporting Family Coping

Unit 15: Value-Belief Pattern
48. Supporting Spirituality

Unit 16: The Surgical Client
49. The Surgical Client

Includes bibliographical references and index.