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Fundamentals of Nursing in Collaborative Practice: Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Judgment, Patient Safety, and Health Assessment for Prelicensure Students - Softcover

Houle MD, Anthony S.

 
9798193638605: Fundamentals of Nursing in Collaborative Practice: Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Judgment, Patient Safety, and Health Assessment for Prelicensure Students

Synopsis

Built for the nursing student who knows the facts but isn't yet sure they will notice what matters at the bedside, this reference organizes prelicensure content around the cognitive sequence the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model uses to define safe practice: recognize, analyze, prioritize, act, evaluate. It moves from scope, delegation, and therapeutic communication through foundational patient care — assessment, vital signs, hygiene, mobility, infection prevention, skin integrity, elimination — into the interprofessional coordination and medication safety decisions that protect a patient.

Sixty-two worked Clinical Judgment Cue System instances, indexed in a dedicated Compendium, turn abstract reasoning into a pattern the reader can pull up fast, under pressure.

Inside, You Will Learn How To

• Delegate correctly under scope-of-practice pressure — the Five Rights applied to RN, LPN, and unlicensed assistive personnel boundaries.

• Read a deteriorating patient before the numbers catch up — trend-based vital signs, including the pulse oximetry accuracy gap by skin pigmentation most foundational texts leave out.

• Move through PPE technique without a sequencing error — donning, doffing, and precaution-category matching walked step by step.

• Stage a pressure injury and know when a stalled plan needs revising — Braden risk through NPIAP staging to trajectory-based reassessment.

• Screen for delirium instead of writing withdrawal off as depression — the Confusion Assessment Method applied to the easy-to-miss hypoactive presentation.

• Administer medication safely under interruption and alert fatigue — the expanded Rights of Medication Administration as a working system.

• Coordinate care across a real interprofessional team — routing concerns correctly, using graded assertiveness when a safety issue needs to be heard.

Open it before your first clinical rotation — the judgment your future patients depend on, built one pattern at a time.

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