Contents: 1. Challenges Facing Nurses in the 1990s and Beyond 2. Performing a Holistic Health Assessment 3. Caring for People with Special Medical-Surgical Needs and Problems 4. Caring for People with Special Developmental Needs and Problems 5. Caring for People with Medical-Surgical Discorders 6. Caring for People with Special Psychosocial Needs and Problems
The practice of nursing often interfaces with the practices of the ofter health care providers. Sometimes the nurse sees the client problems that require referral for treatment and ignores or fails to detect the problems that she can treat independently.
Contents: 1. Nursing as a Developing Profession 2. Nursing Education 3. Credentials for Nursing Practice 4. The health Care Delivery System 5. The World of Employment 6. Legal Responsibility for Practice 7. Ethical Concerns in Nursing Practice 8. Collective Bargaining 9. The Political Process and Health Care 10. Organizations for and about Nursing
Contents: *. An introduction to clinical supervision * Practice development in nursing * Implementing clinical supervision * Approaches to clinical supervision * Models for clinical supervision * Legal and ethical issues in clinical supervision * Enhancing the supervisory relationship * Clinical supervision in action * Evaluating clinical supervision
Medical - surgical nursing and fundamentals of nursing concepts must work as partners to ensure novice or advance beginner nurses practice their clinical, managerial, organizational, and research skills in optimum quality.
Contents: 1. Health-Perception-Health-management Pattern. 2. Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern. 3. Elimination Pattern. 4. Activity-Exercise Pattern. 5. Sleep-Rest Pattern. 6. Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern. 7. Slef-Perception-Self-Concept Pattern. 8. Role-Relationship Pattern. 9. Sexuality-Reproductive Pattern. 10. Coping-Stress-Tolerance Pattern. 11. Value-Belief Pattern.
This edition of NANDA International's work on the development of nursing diagnoses-NANDA Nursing Diagnoses : definitions and Classification, 2003-2004 contains 12 new diagnoses, including 11 health-promotion/wellness diagnoses, and three revisions.
Contents: 1. Getting your bearings. 2. Health is everbody's business. 3. The human body in action. 4. Nutrition 5. Family living 6. Maternal and child health 7. Illness conditions 8. Nursing is an art
Features include the folloeing: - Step-by-step communication teachnques are presented to improve conversational effectiveness. - Real-life scenarios illustrate responses that help nurses handle diverse situations encountered in prefessional practice. - Self-test questionnaiers promote self-reflection and present several ways to provide feedback to patients.
Theory helps provide knowledge to improve practice by desribing, explaining, predicting, and controlling phenomena. Nurses power is increased through theoretical knowledge because systematically developed methods are more likely to be successful.