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Study Guide for Fundamentals of Nursing. Edition No. 3

  • Book

  • April 2022
  • Elsevier Health Science
  • ID: 5458333
Get the review and practice you need to master the role of today's nurse! With chapters corresponding to the chapters in Yoost's Fundamentals of Nursing, 3rd Edition, this study guide provides a variety of exercises and activities to reinforce your understanding of nursing concepts and skills. Chapter reviews use engaging activities to make learning more meaningful, and review questions help you apply concepts to the practice setting. Now with new Next Generation NCLEX?-style practice questions, this study guide also prepares you for success on classroom and NCLEX examinations.

- Chapter review questions include multiple-choice, matching, true/false, and image labeling questions, testing your comprehension of nursing fundamentals and making learning more fun. - Answers and detailed rationales for all of the questions are included in the back of the study guide. - Skills performance checklists on the Evolve website are completely updated to match the latest versions of nursing skills, and are both interactive and printable. - NEW! Next Generation NCLEX?-style practice questions in clinical chapters help you develop skills in clinical judgment. - NEW! Updated content reflects changes to the Fundamentals of Nursing, 3rd Edition textbook. - NEW! Preliminary Readings refer you back to the related chapter in the textbook. - NEW! Open-ended questions provide questions, activities, and guidance to make study group time more productive.

Table of Contents

  1. Nursing, Theory, and Professional Practice

  2. Values, Beliefs, and Caring

  3. Communication

  4. Critical Thinking in Nursing

  5. Introduction to the Nursing Process

  6. Assessment

  7. Nursing Diagnosis

  8. Planning

  9. Implementation and Evaluation

  10. Documentation, Electronic Health Records, and Reporting

  11. Ethical and Legal Considerations

  12. Leadership and Management

  13. Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing Research

  14. Health Literacy and Patient Education

  15. Nursing Informatics

  16. Health and Wellness

  17. Human Development: Conception through Adolescence

  18. Human Development: Young Adult through Older Adult

  19. Vital Signs

  20. Health History and Physical Assessment

  21. Ethnicity and Cultural Assessment

  22. Spiritual Health

  23. Public Health, Community-Based, and Home Health Care

  24. Human Sexuality

  25. Safety

  26. Asepsis and Infection Control

  27. Hygiene and Personal Care

  28. Activity, Immobility, and Safe Movement

  29. Skin Integrity and Wound Care

  30. Nutrition

  31. Cognitive and Sensory Alterations

  32. Stress and Coping

  33. Sleep

  34. Diagnostic Testing

  35. Medication Administration

  36. Pain Management

  37. Perioperative Nursing Care

  38. Oxygenation and Tissues Perfusion

  39. Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance

  40. Bowel Elimination

  41. Urinary Elimination

  42. Death and Loss

Appendix A: Answer Key

Authors

Barbara L Yoost Lynne R Crawford Patricia Castaldi Director, Practical Nursing Program, Union County College; Plainfield, NJ.