Online Companion: Nursing Fundamentals: Caring & Clinical Decision Making


Table of Contents

Section I: Foundations of Nursing

Unit I: Foundations of Nursing Practice

Chapter 1: Evolution of Nursing Practice
Chapter 2: The Health Care Delivery System
Chapter 3: Framework of Nursing Practice
Chapter 4: The Nurse-Client Relationship
Chapter 5: Culture and Ethnicity
Chapter 6: Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing Research
Chapter 7: Advanced Technology and Information Systems
Chapter 8: Legal Accountability and Responsibilities
Chapter 9: Ethical Issues

Unit II: The Nursing Process and Decision Making

Chapter 10: Critical Thinking and the Nursing Process
Chapter 11: Assessment
Chapter 12: Nursing Diagnosis
Chapter 13: Outcome Identification and Planning
Chapter 14: Implementation
Chapter 15: Evaluation
Chapter 16: Documentation and Reporting

Unit III: Client Care Across the Lifespan

Chapter 17: The Pediatric Client
Chapter 18: The Adult Client
Chapter 19: The Geriatric Client

Unit IV: Arenas of Client Care

Chapter 20: Acute Care
Chapter 21: Restorative care
Chapter 22: Home Care
Chapter 23: Community Care

Unit V: Leadership in Nursing

Chapter 24: Leadership, Delegation, and Collaboration
Chapter 25: Management and Policy

Unit VI: Concepts of Therapeutic Nursing

Chapter 26: Infection Control
Chapter 27: Health Assessment
Chapter 28: Client Education
Chapter 29: Diagnostic Testing
Chapter 30: Medication Administration
Chapter 31: Alternative and Complementary Therapies

Section II: Nursing of Human Function

Unit VII: Health Perception and Health Maintenance

Chapter 32: Health Maintenance, Health Promotion, and Wellness
Chapter 33: Safety and Hygiene

Unit VIII: Nutritional-Metabolic

Chapter 34: Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance
Chapter 35: Nutrition
Chapter 36: Skin Integrity and Wound Healing

Unit IX: Elimination

Chapter 37: Urinary and Bowel Elimination

Unit X: Activity-Exercise

Chapter 38: Mobility and Biomechanics
Chapter 39: Oxygenation

Unit XI: Sleep-Rest

Chapter 40: Sleep and Rest

Unit XII: Cognitive-Perceptual

Chapter 41: Sensation, Perception, and Cognition
Chapter 42: Pain

Unit XIII: Self-Perception/Self-Concept

Chapter 43: Self-Concept

Unit XIV: Role-Relationship

Chapter 44: Roles, Relationships, and Social Support
Chapter 45: Loss and Grief

Unit XV: Sexuality-Reproductive

Chapter 46: Sexuality

Unit XVI: Coping-Stress Tolerance

Chapter 47: Stress, Anxiety, Coping, and Adaptation

Unit XVII: Value-Belief

Chapter 48: Spiritual Health