The sinth edition of this best seller updates the important new changes in the nursing process, and discuss the process in relation to the current and future nursing concerns including collaboration, home health and prevention. The new standards of care issued by the American Nurses Association and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations are reviewed and discussed both in narrative and case-based format. The level of detail given in areas of pharmacology and assessment in geared for the beginning nursing student, thus will be simple in presentation
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Generations of nursing students have discovered the scope, the importance, and the fundamental processes of their chosen profession with this one-of-a-kind, reader-friendly text. Using a helpful building-block approach, and filled with many thought-provoking historical and cultural vignettes. Understanding the Nursing Process in a Changing Care Environment breaks the nursing process into logically organized steps for ease of comprehension. Newly updated, the sixth edition considers the nursing process against the backdrop of today's transforming issues - such as managed care, multicultural patient populations, home health care, and illness prevention. Doesn't your nursing career deserve a resource like Understanding the Nursing Process in a Changing Care Environment?Look For These Important Features:Learn-as-you-go approach with self-test questions following every step.Clear introductions to patient assessment, nursing diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation.Critical thinking sections and guidelines in each chapter.Information and guidelines to culturally competent nursing care in each chapter.Discussion and application of managed care in each chapter.Current professional guidelines and issues.Separate pocket guide to nursing diagnosis.Across the continuum case study and critical pathway example from ambulatory clinic setting, to hospital, to home care.
Mary Ellen Murray, Ph.D., RN, is Director of Clinical Services at the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing, Madision, Wisconsin.
Leslie D. Atkinson, RN, MSN, is Clinical Instructor at the University of Minnesota, Bloomington, Minnesota.
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