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FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING
Foundations of Nursing
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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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