Basic Nursing provides you with complete coverage of the essential nursing principles, concepts, and skills that are the foundation of a solid nursing education.
Confidence is built with the help of these outstanding features:
• Essential Nursing Skills are presented in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format that includes rationales for each action.
• NEW! Safety Guidelines precede each skills section to help you focus on safe and effective skill performance.
• Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions at the end of each nursing skill alert you to what might go wrong and how to respond when it does.
• Continuing Case Studies introduce a patient and a nurse in each chapter to show you how to apply the nursing process to patient care.
• Sample Nursing Care Plans 4o pi^p and evaluate care for the patients in the case studies.
• NEW! Chapters on Evidence-Based Practice and Informatics and Documentation keep you up to date on the latest trends in nursing.
• Critical Thinking and Review Questions at the end of each chapter—including alternate-item format questions—help you evaluate learning.