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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 and Adult Health Nursing is the full-color single-volume text that includes all of
the content from Foundations of Nursing and Adult Health Nursing. It covers the entire LPN/LVN curriculum including fundamentals and
skills, maternal and neonatal, pediatric, geriatric, mental health, community, anatomy & physiology, and medical-surgical content. It's
everything students need to succeed both in the classroom and in practice.
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
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: Adult Health Nursing
41. Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology
42.
Care of the Surgical Patient
43. Care of the Patient with an Integumentary Disorder
44. Care of the Patient with a Musculoskeletal
Disorder
45. Care of the Patient with a Gastrointestinal Disorder
46. Care of the Patient with a Gallbladder, Liver, Biliary
Tract, or Exocrine Pancreatic Disorder
47. Care of the Patient with a Blood or Lymphatic Disorder
48. Care of the Patient with
a Cardiovascular or a Peripheral Vascular Disorder
49. Care of the Patient with a Respiratory Disorder
50. Care of the Patient
with a Urinary Disorder
51. Care of the Patient with an Endocrine Disorder
52. Care of the Patient with a Reproductive Disorder
53. Care of the Patient with a Visual or Auditory Disorder
54. Care of the Patient with a Neurological Disorder
55. Care
of the Patient with an Immune Disorder
56. Care of the Patient with HIV/AIDS
57. Care of the Patient with Cancer
Unit
Ten: From Graduate to Professional
58. Professional Roles and Leadership
Appendix A: Common Abbreviations
Appendix
B: JCAHO Lists of Dangerous Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols
Appendix C: Laboratory Reference Values
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 2320 pages, publication date: OCT-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-03935-2
ISBN-10: 0-323-03935-9
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 30 Nov 2009
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