Fundamentals of Nursing: Human Health and Function, 5th edition maintains its emphasis on critical thinking by weaving it throughout each chapter.

Chapters open with a clinical vignette followed by critical thinking questions, and include Apply Your Knowledge Checkpoint Boxes, Therapeutic Dialogues Boxes, Collaborating with the Healthcare Team Boxes, and Ethical-Legal Boxes that together build readers' decision-making abilities and clinical judgement.

This Sixth Edition offers completely revised skills presentations and a brand-new, comprehensive, integrated art program of nearly 1,000 drawings and photographs. It also has an increased focus on patient safety, communication, and evidence-based research in practice.

Contents

Unit 1: The Delivery of Nursing

1. The Delivery of Nursing
2. Community-Based Nursing and Continuity of Care

Unit 2: Concepts Essential for Professional Nursing

3. The Profession of Nursing
4. Nursing Theory and Conceptual Frameworks
5. Values
6. Ethical and Legal Concerns
7. Nurse Leader and Manager
8. Nursing Research: Evidence Based Care

Unit 3: The Nursing Process: Framework for Clinical Nursing Therapies

9. Nursing Process: Foundation for Practice
10. Nursing Assessment
11. Nursing Diagnosis
12. Outcome Identification and Planning
13. Implementation and Evaluation
14. Critical Thinking
15. Communication of the Nursing Process: Documenting and Reporting

Unit 4: Concepts Essential for Human Function and Nursing Management

16. Health and Wellness
17. Complementary and Alternative Medicine
18. Lifespan Development
19. The Older Adult
20. Individual, Family and Community
21. Culture and Ethnicity
22. Communication: The Nurse-Client Relationship
23. Client Education
24. Care Management

Unit 5: Essential Assessment Components

25. Health Assessment of Human Function
26. Vital Sign Assessment

Unit 6: Selected Clinical Nursing Therapeutics

27. Asepsis and Infection Control
28. Medication Administration
29. Intravenous Therapy
30. Perioperative Nursing

Unit 7: Health Perception and Health Management

31. Safety
32. Health Maintenance

Unit 8: Activity and Exercise

33. Self-Care and Hygiene
34. Mobility and Body Mechanics
35. Oxygenation: Respiratory Function
36. Oxygenation: Cardiovascular Function

Unit 9: Nutrition and Metabolism

37. Fluid, Electrolyte and Acid-Base Balance
38. Nutrition
39. Skin Integrity and Wound Healing
40. The Body's Defense Against Infection

Unit 10: Elimination

41. Urinary Elimination
42. Bowel Elimination

Unit 11: Sleep and Rest

43. Sleep and Rest

Unit 12: Cognition and Perception

44. Pain Perception and Management
45. Sensory Perception
46. Cognitive Processes

Unit 13: Self-Perception and Self-Concept

47. Self-Concept

Unit 14: Roles and Relationships

48. Families and Their Relationships
49. Loss and Grieving

Unit 15: Coping and Stress Management

50. Stress, Coping and Adaptation

Unit 16: Sexuality and Production

51. Human Sexuality

Unit 17: Values and Beliefs

52. Spiritual Health

Index

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