Leveraging research, evidence-based best practices, clinical scenarios, and contemporary and emerging healthcare trends, Craven & Hirnle’s Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts and Competencies for Practice, 10th Edition, provides an unparalleled first step in students’ nursing education and establishes the strong foundation essential to their success in today’s nursing practice. This updated edition supports confident clinical decision-making and improved patient safety and outcomes, helping students develop the strong critical thinking and clinical judgment, clear communication, and sound clinical skills they will use every day to support and restore patients to functionality and wellness across a multitude of settings.
Bridging the continuum from nursing education to clinical practice, this respected text instills a mastery of basic concepts—promoting health, differentiating between normal function and dysfunction, using scientific rationales, and applying clinical judgment through the nursing process—and a familiarity with today’s clinical challenges reflecting a range of patient populations, practice settings, and clinical situations. Updates throughout the 10th Edition streamline the transition from the classroom to clinical practice, informed by the Next Generation NCLEX®, the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model (CJMM), and the latest diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations. Exercises woven into each chapter reinforce students’ mastery of key skills and provide critical practice applying knowledge to contemporary care.
Edition
10
ISBN/ISSN
9781975205744
Product Format
Vitalsource Interactive eBook
Pages
1584
Edition
10
Publication Date
November 28, 2023
Christine Henshaw
Renee Rassilyer-Bomers DNP, ARNP
Unit 1 Professional Concepts
Chapter 1: The Profession of Nursing
Chapter 2: The Nurse’s Role in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
Chapter 3: Values, Ethics and Legal Issues
Chapter 4: Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Care
Unit 2 The Nursing Process and the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model
Chapter 5: Introduction to the Nursing Process, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Judgment
Chapter 6: Assessment: Recognizing Cues
Chapter 7: Diagnosis/Analysis: Analyzing Cues and Prioritizing Hypotheses
Chapter 8: Planning: Generating Solutions
Chapter 9: Implementation and Evaluation: Taking Action and Evaluating Outcomes
Chapter 10: Healthcare Team Communication: Documenting and Reporting
Unit 3 Healthcare Delivery Concepts
Chapter 11: Health, Wellness, and Integrative Healthcare
Chapter 12: Healthcare in the Community and Home
Chapter 13: Culture and Diversity
Chapter 14: Communication in the Nurse–Patient Relationship
Chapter 15: Patient Education and Health Promotion
Chapter 16: Caring for the Older Adult
Unit 4 Clinical Care Competencies
Chapter 17: Safety
Chapter 18: Health Assessment
Chapter 19: Vital Signs
Chapter 20: Asepsis
Chapter 21: Medication Administration
Chapter 22: Intravenous Therapy
Chapter 23: Perioperative Nursing
Unit 5 Concepts Involving Protection and Movement
Chapter 24: Hygiene and Self Care
Chapter 25: Mobility
Chapter 26: Skin Integrity and Wound Healing
Chapter 27: Infection Prevention and Management
Chapter 28: Pain Management
Chapter 29: Sensory Perception
Unit 6 Concepts Involving Homeostasis and Regulation
Chapter 30: Respiratory Function
Chapter 31: Cardiac Function
Chapter 32: Fluids, Electrolytes, and Acid–Base Balance
Chapter 33: Nutrition
Chapter 34: Urinary Elimination
Chapter 35: Bowel Elimination
Chapter 36: Sleep
Unit 7 Psychosocial Concepts
Chapter 37: Self-Concept
Chapter 38: Families and their Relationships
Chapter 39: Cognitive Processes
Chapter 40: Sexuality
Chapter 41: Stress, Coping and Adaptation
Chapter 42: Loss and Grieving
Chapter 43: Spiritual Health
Appendix A: Answers with Rationales for Practicing for the NCLEX Questions Appendix B: Think Like a Nurse Answers Appendix C: Abbreviations Commonly Used in Documentation Appendix D: ISMP List of Error-Prone Abbreviations Glossary
UPDATED! Practicing for the NCLEX provides valuable exam practice with NCLEX® style questions, including some in the Next Generation NCLEX format. Complete answers and rationales for correct and incorrect answers are found in an appendix.
NEW! NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model (NCJMM) incorporated throughout strengthens clinical judgment and decision-making preparation for the Next Generation NCLEX.
UPDATED! Diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations reflected in the text help students ensure culturally sensitive care for a broad spectrum of patients.
Think Like a Nurse features deepen understanding of nursing concepts and situations with real-life examples.
Case Scenarios at the beginning of each chapter and revisited throughout familiarize students with diverse settings and clients and encourage holistic thinking on broader issues.
Richly illustrated Concept Maps engage visual learners in applying the nursing process and critical thinking to the Case Scenarios.
Critical Thinking Using Essential Nursing Competencies features empower students to synthesize chapter content with key nursing competencies.
Collaborating with the Healthcare Team boxes strengthen communication capabilities using the SBAR technique and emphasize the nurse’s role in the healthcare team, ethics, and clinical judgment.
PICO (patient/problem, intervention, comparison, outcome) displays illustrate a structured, evidence-based approach to addressing clinical questions related to the Case Scenarios.
Evidence-Based Bundles to Improve Patient Care boxes highlight sets of evidence-based practices that collectively and reliably improve patient outcomes.
Ethical/Legal Issue boxes prompt critical thinking about complex situations in nursing.
Therapeutic Dialogues train students to enhance communication and to relay important information through close listening and a few well-chosen questions.
Patient Plan of Care features guide students in “pulling it all together,” with accompanying scientific rationales that support knowledge growth.
Outcome-Based Teaching Plans enhance patient education through clear examples.
Nursing Diagnoses Tables provide fast access to common nursing diagnoses, associated factors, and relevant signs and symptoms.
Safety Alerts highlight important considerations for patient safety.
Procedures walk students through essential nursing care skills with detailed descriptions, rationales, and images.
Concept Mastery Alerts clarify fundamental nursing concepts and potentially confusing topics identified by Lippincott® PrepU Adaptive Learning.
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