Taking all the expert nursing content and student-friendly features of Potter and Perry's Fundamentals text and streamlining it into a shorter format, Essentials for Nursing Practice, 8th Edition is the perfect choice to help busy nursing students master all the fundamental nursing principles in less time! This new 8th edition contains the nursing principles, concepts, skills, and easy-to-follow format that nursing students have come to love about Potter and Perry's Basic Nursing - all updated with the latest ...
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Taking all the expert nursing content and student-friendly features of Potter and Perry's Fundamentals text and streamlining it into a shorter format, Essentials for Nursing Practice, 8th Edition is the perfect choice to help busy nursing students master all the fundamental nursing principles in less time! This new 8th edition contains the nursing principles, concepts, skills, and easy-to-follow format that nursing students have come to love about Potter and Perry's Basic Nursing - all updated with the latest information, visuals, and learning features. Plus, this reinvigorated Essentials text is streamlined and re-designed to work better with the rest of your books. It also comes with a wide array of online learning tools (free with book purchase) to help you master the important nursing concepts and skills with ease. The 5-step nursing process provides you with a constant framework for all the clinical chapters. Unique! Improved readability makes it easy to understand key concepts. Care Plans demonstrate the application of the 5-step nursing process to individual patient problems. Companion CD helps you learn and apply textbook content with tutorials, audio glossaries, and video clips highlighting different skills. Audio chapter summaries allow for easy content review, even on the go. English/Spanish audio glossary provides definitions and explanations of key terms. Unique! Video icons direct you to videos of skills on the Evolve website for additional practice. Each skill includes unexpected outcomes and related interventions to alert you to what might go wrong and how to react. Key terms reinforce key points in the text and familiarize you with the language of nursing and health care. Unique! Synthesis in Practice boxes tie case studies to appropriate theory, helping you gain insight into the how? and why? of nursing care. Unique! Evaluation boxes provide you with a follow-up to case studies and help you relate the situation to actual practice. Best Practice boxes relate how research can be applied to everyday practice. Patient Teaching boxes instruct you how to best teach a patient about self-care. Care of the Older Adult boxes highlight changes that occur with aging and how they affect delivery of nursing care. Cultural Focus boxes alert you to care issues unique to people of specific cultural backgrounds. Delegation coverage teaches you to delegate appropriately for comprehensive, safe patient care. Key points summarize the most important information and act as a quick refresher tool. Review questions prepare you for the NCLEX (R) examination. Critical thinking exercises relate real scenarios to those you will encounter in clinicals and practice. NEW! QSEN scenarios present a clinical situation followed by an open-ended question designed to help you understand and apply these core competencies. NEW! Chapter on professional nursing includes information on QSEN, prioritization, delegation, and professional levels. NEW! Completely revised review questions contain a strong mix of clinical thinking and application-level questions. NEW! Content on the impact of exercise covers its influence on disease reduction, compassion fatigue, lateral violence, cyber bullying, social media implications, caregiver strain, and safe patient handling. NEW! Expanded use of Evidence-Based Practice boxes include a PICO question, summary of the results of a research study, and a description of how the study has affe
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