For fundamentals of nursing courses in the nursing curriculum.

KOZIER & ERB'S FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING, 9/e thoroughly addresses the key concepts of contemporary professional nursing, helping nurses grow and evolve to meet the demands of a dramatically changing health care system. The Ninth Edition’s content has been systematically revised to reflect new evidence, and a stronger emphasis on aging, wellness, safety, and home- and community-based care. Its objectives have been updated and mapped to support QSEN Competencies, AACN Essentials, the NCLEX-RN^® 2010 test plan, and the 2010 ANA Scope and Standards of Practice. Coverage includes: health promotion, disease prevention, holistic care, multiculturalism, nursing theories, informatics, research, ethics, advocacy, and many other topics. Designed for use with any nursing theory or conceptual framework, this edition contains several new pedagogical features, including new Safety and Self-Care alerts.

Features

For fundamentals of nursing courses in the nursing curriculum.

KOZIER & ERB'S FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING, 9/e thoroughly addresses the key concepts of contemporary professional nursing, helping nurses grow and evolve to meet the demands of a dramatically changing health care system. The Ninth Edition’s content has been systematically revised to reflect new evidence, and a stronger emphasis on aging, wellness, safety, and home- and community-based care. Its objectives have been updated and mapped to support AACN Essentials, NCLEX-RN 2010 test plan, and ANA Standards of Practice. Coverage includes: health promotion, disease prevention, holistic care, multiculturalism, nursing theories, informatics, research, ethics, advocacy, and many other topics. Designed for use with any nursing theory or conceptual framework, this edition contains several new pedagogical features, including new Safety and Self-Care alerts.

HALLMARK FEATURES

Nursing Care Plans–presenting sample written guides organizing information about a client’s care, and providing continuity of care to address nursing diagnoses and produce desired outcomes

• Prepares students to develop and utilize nursing care plans

Critical Thinking Checkpoints–presenting brief case studies followed by questions designed to stimulate deeper consideration

• Helps students gain deeper insights into the issues they will confront in the profession

Lifespan Considerations–focusing on customizing skills or procedures for differently aged populations

• Helps students practice successfully with clients of all ages

Skill-related Practice Guidelines–containing instant-access summaries of clinical do’s and don’ts in bulleted list format

• Provides concise, reliable reference information students can use in a wide variety of settings and scenarios

Research Notes–describing relevant studies that relate to and support clinical practice

• Supports students in promoting evidence-based care

Culturally Responsive Care–explaining what a nurse may do differently in consideration of a client’s cultural background

• Helps students succeed with an increasingly diverse client population 

Client Teaching Boxes– covering issues such as preventing infections in the home, and environmental management

• Helps students teach their clients more effectively 

Assessment Interview Boxes–illuminating the types and range of assessment questions to ask clients

• Prepares students to perform effective interviews

Identifying Nursing Diagnoses, Outcomes, and Interventions Tabels–providing guidelines, with data clusters and current NIC and NOC language for each specific disorder

• Makes it easier for students to find authoritative information about diagnoses, outcomes, and interventions 

Concept Maps–offering visual presentations of nursing care plans and other difficult concepts in decision-tree format

• Helps visual learners grasp complex concepts and processes 

Drug Capsule Boxes–providing brief overviews of drug information, nursing responsibilities, and related client teaching

• Brings together key information about widely prescribed drugs

Anatomy & Physiology Review Boxes–in selected clinical chapters, with additional critical thinking questions

• Offers valuable A&P summaries where they are most useful to students

Clinical Manifestations Boxes–containing bulleted lists of signs and symptoms of various diseases and disorders

• Gives students quick access to information about signs and symptoms that can be used for diagnosis

Home Care Considerations and Assessment Boxes–relating to home care related procedures, and to the client’s environment, family, and community

• Prepares students to participate in (or lead) home care efforts

Critical Pathways features– presenting two interdisciplinary care plans, including diagnoses, emergency and trauma care, and surgical procedures

• Introduces the important concept of critical pathways, and shows how it can be applied 

Developmental Assessment Guidelines–supporting coverage of caring for babies, children, adolescents, young and middle-aged adults, and older adults

• Helps students care appropriately for clients at each stage of life 

Nursing Process in Action–presented in a two page visual depiction of the components of the nursing process

• Gives students a visual, intuitive understanding of how the entire nursing process fits together

Functional Health Patterns–presented in a four-page, four-color insert at the end of the text

• Gives students a visual, intuitive understanding of essential patterns associated with clients’ functional health

New To This Edition

• Helps students prepare for the latest certification programs and standards of practice 

Updated and expanded! Reflects key trends in the field–including more coverage of diversity, aging, wellness, safety, and home- and community-based care

• Prepares students for the types of care they will be increasingly called upon to provide 

Updated! Reflects the latest nursing evidence–including a significantly revised chapter on evidence-based nursing

• Helps students participate effectively in the growing number of healthcare delivery teams now implementing evidence-based approaches  

• Improves awareness of crucial safety issues, and provides solutions students can use immediately

New! Self-Care Alerts–focusing on actions nurses can perform to take care of themselves better, become more successful, and serve as a more effective role model for clients and colleagues

• Helps students gain greater fulfillment in their own practices, while maintaining their own physical and psychological health in the face of stress 

• Helps students care for increasingly diverse populations 

• More appealing images promote student engagement and support visual learning

• Helps students successfully integrate everything they learn, and apply it in realistic cases and environments

• Promotes deeper insight and more effective critical thinking and clinical reasoning

• Prepares students to improve care through the use of new technologies

Table of Contents

Unit 1. The Nature of Nursing

1. Historical and Contemporary Nursing Practice

2. Evidence-Based Practice and Research in Nursing

3. Nursing Theories and Conceptual Frameworks

4. Legal Aspects of Nursing

5. Values, Ethics and Advocacy

Unit 2. Contemporary Health Care

6. Health Care Delivery Systems

7. Community Nursing and Care Continuity

8. Home Care

9. Electronic Health Records and Information Technology

Unit 3. The Nursing Process

10. Critical Thinking and Nursing Practice

11. Assessing

12. Diagnosing

13. Planning

14. Implementing and Evaluating

15. Documenting and Reporting

Unit 4. Health Beliefs and Practices

16. Health Promotion

17. Health, Wellness, and Illness

18. Culture and Heritage

19. Complementary and Alternative Healing Modalities

Unit 5. Life Span Development

20. Concepts of Growth and Development

21. Promoting Health from Conception through Adolescence

22. Promoting Health in Young and Middle-Aged Adults

23. Promoting Health in Older Adults

24. Promoting Family Health

Unit 6. Integrated Aspects of Nursing

25. Caring

26. Communicating

27. Teaching

28. Leading, Managing, and Delegating

Unit 7. Assessing Health

29. Vital Signs

30. Health Assessment

Unit 8. Integral Components of Client Care

31. Asepsis

32. Safety

33. Hygiene

34. Diagnostic Testing

35. Medications

36. Skin Integrity and Wound Care

37. Perioperative Nursing

Unit 9. Promoting Psychosocial Health

38. Sensory Perception

39. Self-Concept

40. Sexuality

41. Spirituality

42. Stress and Coping

43. Loss, Grieving, and Death

Unit 10. Promoting Physiological Health

44. Activity and Exercise

45. Sleep

46. Pain Management

47. Nutrition

48. Urinary Elimination

49. Fecal Elimination

50. Oxygenation

51. Circulation

52. Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance

Appendix A. Answers to Anatomy and Physiology, Critical thinking Possibilities, and Answers to Test Your Knowledge

Appendix B. 20XX-20XX NANDA-Approved Nursing Diagnoses

Appendix C. Measurement Scales Used in Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC)

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