Clinical Nursing Skills: A Concept-Based Approach, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (July 28, 2022) © 2023

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  • Pearson+ eTextbook with study tools
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  • Interactive course-specific content
  • Real-time analytics and insights
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Platform features

  • Pearson+ eTextbook with study tools
  • Tailored feedback on assignments
  • Interactive course-specific content
  • Real-time analytics and insights
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Platform features

  • Pearson+ eTextbook with study tools
  • Tailored feedback on assignments
  • Interactive course-specific content
  • Real-time analytics and insights

Title overview

Nursing: A Concept-Based Approach to Learning is the only concepts curriculum built from the ground up as a comprehensive, cohesive learning system. This 3-volume series provides all the nursing curriculum content and materials needed to prepare you for nursing practice. With exemplars and assessment tools, you'll deepen your grasp of connections between concepts, with broad applications throughout a nursing career.

Volumes I, II and III together deliver the concepts, exemplars and clinical skills of a complete concept-based nursing curriculum. The 4th Edition will build your grasp of the lifespan in a focused, participative and collaborative learning environment.

Table of contents

VOLUME I

PART I: BIOPHYSICAL MODULES

  • Module 1. Acid-Base Balance
  • Module 2. Cellular Regulation
  • Module 3. Comfort
  • Module 4. Digestion
  • Module 5. Elimination
  • Module 6. Fluids and Electrolytes
  • Module 7. Health, Wellness, Illness, and Injury
  • Module 8. Immunity
  • Module 9. Infection
  • Module 10. Inflammation
  • Module 11. Intracranial Regulation
  • Module 12. Metabolism
  • Module 13. Mobility
  • Module 14. Nutrition
  • Module 15. Oxygenation
  • Module 16. Perfusion
  • Module 17. Perioperative Care
  • Module 18. Sensory Perception
  • Module 19. Sexuality
  • Module 20. Thermoregulation
  • Module 21. Tissue Integrity

VOLUME II

PART II: PSYCHOSOCIAL MODULES

  • Module 22. Addiction
  • Module 23. Cognition
  • Module 24. Culture and Diversity
  • Module 25. Development
  • Module 26. Family
  • Module 27. Grief and Loss
  • Module 28. Mood and Affect
  • Module 29. Self
  • Module 30. Spirituality
  • Module 31. Stress and Coping
  • Module 32. Trauma

PART III: REPRODUCTION MODULE

  • Module 33. Reproduction

PART IV: NURSING DOMAIN

  • Module 34. Assessment
  • Module 35. Caring Interventions
  • Module 36. Clinical Decision Making
  • Module 37. Collaboration
  • Module 38. Communication
  • Module 39. Managing Care
  • Module 40. Professionalism
  • Module 41. Teaching and Learning

PART V: HEALTHCARE DOMAIN

  • Module 42. Accountability
  • Module 43. Advocacy
  • Module 44. Ethics
  • Module 45. Evidence-Based Practice
  • Module 46. Healthcare Systems
  • Module 47. Health Policy
  • Module 48. Informatics
  • Module 49. Legal Issues
  • Module 50. Quality Improvement
  • Module 51. Safety

VOLUME III

  1. Assessment
    • General Assessment
    • Vital Signs
    • Physical Assessment
    • Physical Assessment for the Newborn
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  2. Caring Interventions
    • Bed Care and Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
    • Medication Administration Systems
    • Medication Preparation
    • Medication Routes
    • Parenteral Routes
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  3. Comfort
    • Acute/Chronic Pain Management
    • Heat and Cold Application
    • End-of-Life Care
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  4. Elimination
    • Assessment: Collecting Specimens
    • Bladder Interventions
    • Bowel Interventions
    • Dialysis
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  5. Fluids and Electrolytes
    • Fluid Balance Measurement
    • Intravenous Therapy
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  6. Infection
    • Medical Asepsis
    • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Isolation Precautions
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  7. Intracranial Regulation
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  8. Metabolism
    • General Metabolism
    • Diabetes Care
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  9. Mobility
    • Balance and Strength
    • Moving and Transferring a Patient
    • Patient Assistive Devices
    • Traction and Cast Care
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  10. Nutrition
    • Healthy Eating Habits
    • Enteral Nutrition Using a Feeding Tube
    • Parenteral Nutrition Using Intravenous Infusion
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  11. Oxygenation
    • Assessment
    • Interventions
    • Supplemental Oxygen Therapy
    • Maintaining a Patent Airway
    • Maintaining Lung Expansion
    • Life-threatening Situations
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  12. Perfusion
    • Maintaining Blood Volume
    • Antiembolism Devices
    • Electrical Conduction in the Heart
    • Arterial Line
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  13. Perioperative Care
    • General Perioperative Care
    • Using Sterile Technique
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  14. Reproduction
    • Antepartum Care
    • Intrapartum Care
    • Postpartum Care
    • Newborn Care
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  15. Safety
    • Patient Safety
    • Environmental Safety
    • Immobilizers and Restraints
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  16. Tissue Integrity
    • General Assessment
    • Dressings and Binders
    • Wound Care
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes

APPENDICES

  1. Answers to Review Questions
  2. Guidelines for Laboratory and Diagnostic Assessment

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