Essentials for Nursing Practice (Basic Nursing Essentials for Practice)

Essentials for Nursing Practice (Basic Nursing Essentials for Practice)

<p>Taking all the expert nursing content and student-friendly features of Potter and Perry’s <i>Fundamentals </i>text and streamlining it into a shorter format, <b>Essentials for Nursing Practice, 8th Edition </b>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 <i>Basic Nursing</i> ― all updated with the latest information, visuals, and learning features. Plus, this reinvigorated <b>Essentials</b> 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. </p><ul><b><li>Progressive case studies </b>are introduced at the beginning of the chapter and are then used to tie together the care plan, concept map, clinical decision-making exercises, and QSEN scenarios.</li><li><b>Safety guidelines for nursing skills </b>sections precede each skills section to help you focus on safe and effective skills performance.</li><li><b>Nursing skills at the end of each chapter </b>feature full-bleed coloring on the edge of the page to make them easy to locate.</li><li><b>UNIQUE! <i>Clinical Decision-Making</i> exercises </b>coordinate directly with the progressive case study presented in the chapter.</li><li><b><i>Focused Patient Assessment</i> tables </b>include actual questions to help you learn how to effectively phrase questions to patients as well as target physical assessment techniques.</li><li><b><i>Evaluation</i> boxes </b>bring everything together after nursing interventions have been implemented.</li><li><b><i>Patient Teaching</i> boxes </b>help you plan effective teaching by first identifying an outcome, then developing strategies on how to teach, and finally, implementing measures to evaluate learning.</li><li><b><i>Care of the Older Adult</i> boxes </b>highlight key aspects of nursing assessment and care for this growing population.</li> </ul><ul><b><li>NEW! QSEN scenarios </b>present a clinical situation followed by an open-ended question designed to help you understand and apply these core competencies.</li><li><b>NEW! Chapter on professional nursing</b> includes information on QSEN, prioritization, delegation, and professional levels.</li><li><b>NEW! Completely revised review questions</b> contain a strong mix of clinical thinking and application-level questions.</li><li><b>NEW! Content on the impact of exercise </b>covers its influence on disease reduction, compassion fatigue, lateral violence, cyber bullying, social media implications, caregiver strain, and safe patient handling.</li><li><b>NEW! Expanded use of <i>Evidence-Based Practice</i> boxes</b> include a PICO question, summary of the results of a research study, and a description of how the study has affected nursing practice ― in every chapter.</li><li><b>NEW! <i>Patient-Centered Care</i> boxes</b> address racial and ethnic diversity along with the cultural differences that impact socioeconomic status, values, geography, and religion. These will related to the chapter case studies when possible.</li></ul>