Nursing Process and Critical Thinking - Softcover

Wilkinson, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132181622 ISBN 13: 9780132181624

Publisher: Pearson, 2011

Synopsis

This innovative text uses concrete examples and hands-on exercises to help students clearly understand and apply the steps of the nursing process to today's rapidly changing healthcare environment. Moving beyond step-by-step instructions, NURSING PROCESS AND CRITICAL THINKING, 5/e encourages students to think about each part of the nursing process and use critical thinking to make better clinical decisions. Balancing practical and conceptual aspects of the nursing process, this edition includes an expanded interactive format, new Take Away Points, What do You Know, and Think About It features and a student resourceswebsite to help students begin to think like a nurse.

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From the Back Cover:

A critical thinking approach to the nursing process!

 

Nursing Process & Critical Thinking uses concrete examples and hands-on exercises to help you understand and apply this fundamental decision-making process. Numerous case studies help develop effective problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

 

Key Features

• New content on mind-mapping care plans topromote conceptual thinking and decrease the “labor” of clinical preparation.
• Updated Nursing Outcome Classifications (NOC), Nursing Intervention Classifications systems (NIC), and standardized nursing languages (NANDA Omaha and Georgetown).
• Expanded critical thinking content.
• Emphasis on culture, spirituality, wellness, ethical, and legal considerations increases readers’ awareness of issues they will face in the field and how to implement the nursing process with greater sensitivity.
• Discussion of collaborative practice, delegation, and case management, all essential skills for nurses in the present practice environment.
• Explains how to use Nursing Diagnoses with critical pathways to individualize patient care and meet unique patient needs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0132181622
• ISBN 13: 9780132181624
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 480