Fundamentals of Nursing (2nd Edition) – eBook

Description

Yoost and Crawford’s Fundamentals of Nursing has returned for a highly anticipated second edition! This groundbreaking textbook, renowned for its emphasis on accessible language and engaging learning methods, remains dedicated to your journey in grasping, applying, and retaining essential nursing principles and information. With a nurturing and conversational writing style, Fundamentals of Nursing, 2nd Edition (PDF) guides you through the foundational elements of the nursing profession, seamlessly advancing through the nursing process and outlining systematic care strategies. Each chapter is anchored by real-world complex case studies and critical thinking activities intricately woven into the fabric of the curriculum, ensuring you are consistently applying what you learn to practical patient care scenarios.

Harnessing a conceptual care mapping strategy—developed by Yoost and Crawford—this edition enhances your capability to make informed clinical decisions and synthesize comprehensive knowledge, empowering you to create effective care plans based on thorough analysis and organization of relevant patient assessment data. This innovative textbook is enriched with a plethora of student-friendly features and clinically relevant content, offering a distinctly improved approach for mastering the fundamentals of nursing.

Within the pages of Fundamentals of Nursing: Active Learning for Collaborative Practice 2E, you will find:

• UNIQUE! A warm, inviting writing style that paces information delivery, allowing readers ample time for critical thinking and mastery of fundamental nursing concepts and skills.
• UNIQUE! A building-block approach that thematically organizes topics and concepts in a logical progression that supports knowledge development.
• UNIQUE! An objective-driven format that presents clearly defined, numbered goals, ensuring alignment with the content and concluding with Objective Summaries.
• UNIQUE! Active learning exercises integrated throughout each chapter to facilitate the application of chapter material to expansive nursing principles and real-life patient situations.
• UNIQUE! Conceptual care mapping is employed consistently throughout the text, complemented by the Conceptual Care Map Creator.
• UNIQUE! A strong emphasis on QSEN reinforces the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses competencies encompassing patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics.
• Special feature boxes addressing critical areas such as diversity considerations, evidence-based practices, informatics, patient education, health literacy, health assessment inquiries, interprofessional collaboration and delegation, ethical/legal practices, home care considerations, safety alerts, QSEN competencies, critical thinking exercises, and nursing care guidelines.

• NEW! Integrated interprofessional collaboration and delegation content throughout the text, along with fresh IPE activities within the Evolve resources.
• NEW & UNIQUE! Review and exam questions strategically catered to learning objectives, employing a building-block style that escalates from lower to higher Bloom’s taxonomy levels as knowledge increases.
• NEW! A focused discussion on assignment and delegation, clarifying distinctions and appropriate implementation for Registered Nurses.
• NEW! Information on complementary therapies interwoven throughout the text to align with the evolving NCLEX exam structure.
• NEW! Additional insights into Patient Education, Drugs of Abuse, Zika virus, HCAHPS, Health Literacy, Ebola, and more to broaden your clinical knowledge base.

ISBNs: 978-0323547390, 978-0323675925, 978-0323508643, 978-0323547406

IMPORTANT: This purchase includes only the ebook Fundamentals of Nursing 2nd Edition in a converted PDF format. Please note that the page numbers will NOT correspond with those in the physical textbook, and no access codes are included.