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Fifth Edition
By
Barbara Christensen, MS, RN, Nurse Educator, Mid-Plains Community College, North Platte, NE
Elaine Kockrow, MS, RN, Formerly, Nurse Educator, Mid-Plains Community College, North Platte, NE
Description
Part of the popular LPN Threads series, Foundations of Nursing provides coverage of all the fundamental content and skills students need
to know, including entire units covering maternal and neonatal, pediatric, geriatric, mental health, and community content. Designed
to be used in conjunction with Adult Health Nursing, by the same author team, together these two full-color texts provide complete coverage
of all of the content needed in an LPN/LVN curriculum.
Contents
Unit One: Basic Nursing Concepts
1. The Evolution of Nursing
2. Legal and Ethical Aspects of Nursing
3.
Communication
4. Physical Assessment
5. Nursing Process and Critical Thinking
6. Documentation
7. Cultural
and Ethnic Considerations
8. Life Span Development
9. Loss, Grief, Dying, and Death
Unit Two: Basic Nursing
Skills
10. Admission, Transfer, and Discharge
11. Vital Signs
12. Medical-Surgical Asepsis and Infection
Control
13. Surgical Wound Care New!
14. Safety
15. Body Mechanics and Patient Mobility
16. Pain Management,
Comfort, Rest, and Sleep
17. Complementary and Alternative Therapies
18. Hygiene and Care of the Patient?s Environment
19.
Specimen Collection and Diagnostic Examination
20. Selected Nursing Skills
Unit Three: Basic Nursing Interventions
21.
Basic Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy
22. Fluids and Electrolytes
23. Mathematics Review and Medication Administration
24.
Emergency First Aid Nursing
Unit Four: Maternal and Neonatal Nursing
25. Health Promotion and Pregnancy
26.
Labor and Delivery
27. Care of the Mother and Newborn
28. Care of the High-Risk Mother, Newborn, and Family with Special
Needs
Unit Five: Pediatric Nursing
29. Health Promotion for the Infant, Child, and Adolescent
30.
Basic Pediatric Nursing Care
31. Care of the Child with a Physical Disorder
32. Care of the Child with a Mental or Cognitive
Disorder
Unit Six: Gerontologic Nursing
33. Health Promotion and Care of the Older Adult
Unit
Seven: Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
34. Basic Concepts of Mental Health
35. Care of the Patient with
a Psychiatric Disorder
36. Care of the Patient with an Addictive Personality
Unit Eight: Community Health Nursing
37.
Home Health Nursing
38. Long-Term Care
39. Rehabilitation Nursing
40. Hospice Care
Unit Nine:
From Graduate to Professional
41. Professional Roles and Leadership
Appendix A: Common Abbreviations
Appendix
B: JCAHO Lists of Dangerous Abbreviations, Acronyms,
and Symbols New!
Appendix C: Laboratory Reference
Values New!
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 1392 pages, publication date: OCT-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-03341-1
ISBN-10: 0-323-03341-5
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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