2015 Winter Sales Meeting Materials

Fundamentals of Nursing

·More than 70 Nursing Skills show both actions and rationales, highlight special considerations and unexpected outcomes, and include documentation guidelines and samples . ·Promoting Health Literacy boxes include scenarios that help students identify patients/families at risk for poor health outcomes due to weak health literacy and include tips for health literacy improvement. ·Nursing Advocacy in Action boxes present a patient scenario along with implications for nursing advocacy, especially advocacy for vulnerable patient populations. ·Chapter-opening Patient Scenarios present three "patients" with photos and a short description of their cases. To reinforce learning and engage the reader, the three "patients" are mentioned throughout the chapter in case scenario narratives that support clinical examples from the text. ·Chapter-ending Practicing for NCLEX exercises help students prepare for the NCLEX and improve their objective test-taking skills. ·Through the Eyes of a Student, Through the Eyes of a Patient, and Through the Eyes of a Family Caregiver offer personal anecdotes from different perspectives to help students prepare for effective practice. ·Promoting Health boxes provide students with assessment checkpoints for various health and wellness issues and include suggestions for patient and self-care. ·Reflective Practice boxes, written by students, describe a challenge to their blended skills—cognitive, technical, interpersonal, or ethical/legal—and then identify possible courses of action and summarize what they learned. Readers are asked if they think they would respond in the same way and to reflect on their response and the adequacy of their blended skills. ·Nursing Plans of Care with Patient Case Studies appear at the end of clinical chapters and provide concrete examples of each step of the nursing process, as well as related examples of documentation. The diagnoses in these plans of care illustrate common health problems and a wide variety of independent and collaborative nursing interventions. ·Examples of NANDA Nursing Diagnoses and Examples of Nursing Interventions Nursing Outcomes Classifications (NIC/NOC) boxes highlight nursing interventions and outcomes for quick and easy reference. ·Focused Assessment Guides provide sample interview questions to foster independent learning. ·Teaching Tips boxes summarize important topics for patient and family education and provide suggestions for nurse-patient communication. ·Focus on the Older Adult boxes emphasize special considerations for care of older patients. ·Research in Nursing: Bridging the Gap to Evidence-Based Practice boxes highlight recent research in nursing care. ·Focused Critical Thinking Guides help students follow the step-by-step critical thinking process to enhance their critical thinking skills. ·Chapter-ending Developing Clinical Reasoning sections provide exercises that challenge students to synthesize, rather than just reiterate, the information they have learned. ·Checklists throughout the text (including blended skills assessment, use of nursing process, and health assessments) allow students to evaluate their personal strengths and limitations and develop related learning goals. ·Icons in the text direct students to relevant Watch & Learn video clips, Practice & Learn activities, and Concepts in Action animations on thePoint . ·Chapter-ending Taylor Suite Resources lists outline which products in the Taylor suite relate to the chapter topic and help students coordinate their study and review. Ancillary Assets: ·Concept maps walk students through the nursing process for selected case study patients. ·Guidelines for Nursing Care boxes outline important points to remember in practice.

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Fundamentals of Nursing