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·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.
·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.
·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:
Fundamentals of Nursing
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