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Diagnosis
Applying Nursing Process:
The Foundation for Clinical Reasoning, Eighth Edition
Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre, MSN, RN, ANEF
978-1-60913-697-0 • January 2013 • Softbound • 7” x 9” • 264 pp. • 65 Illus.
Because principles of nursing process are the building blocks for all
care models, the nursing process is the first model nurses need to
learn to “think like a nurse.”
Applying Nursing Process
provides the
practical guidance needed to understand and apply each phase of
the nursing process, with an increased emphasis on developing both
critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills. With an easy-to-follow
and engaging writing style, the author provides strategies, tools, and
abundant examples to help nurses develop the skills they need to
thrive in today’s complex health care setting.
Features
•
NEW!
Appendix C: Key Elements of Critical Thinking in Context of
ANA Standards and QSEN and IOM Competencies
•
NEW!
Content covers nurses’ increased responsibilities; how to
prioritize, coordinate, and delegate care safely; creating healthy
workplaces; updated evidence-based Critical Thinking Indicators;
QSEN and IOM competencies; and more.
•
NEW!
Improved Layout facilitates readability, coupled with the
author’s clear and engaging writing style.
•
What’s in this Chapter?
Opens each chapter with an overview of
content.
•
ANA Standards Related to This Chapter
is identified in chapter
openers.
•
Learning Outcomes
written at the cognitive level of analysis help
students focus their reading.
•
Rules
, given throughout the chapters, highlight important concepts,
with New Rules included in this edition.
•
UPDATED! Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning Exercises
are highlighted throughout to help students review and apply
knowledge. (Example responses are provided at the end of the
book.).
•
Try This on Your Own
exercises encourage students to learn
more deeply through application and meaningful learning. (These
exercises don’t have example responses at the end of the book
because they’re very individualized and would be too lengthy to
cover.)
•
Voices excerpts
offer quotations from nurses that are inspirational
or exemplary of best practices.
•
Think About It
entries give “food for thought” to stimulate thinking
and reinforce content.
•
This Chapter and NCLEX
®
, at the end of each chapter, lists
important concepts and tips for applying chapter content during
NCLEX
®
.
•
Key Points
provide a summary at the end of each chapter.
• A glossary at the end of the book defines key terms; difficult terms
are clarified in the text by definition, discussion, and use within
context.
Table of Contents
Ch. 1:
Overview of Nursing Process,
Clinical Reasoning, and Nursing
Practice Today
Ch. 2:
Assessment
Ch. 3:
Diagnosis
Ch. 4:
Planning
Ch. 5:
Implementation
Ch. 6:
Evaluation
Example Responses to Critical
Thinking and Clinical Reasoning
Exercises
Appendix A:
Example Critical
Pathway
Appendix B:
Building Healthy
Workplaces and Safety and Learning
Cultures
Appendix C:
Key Elements of Critical
Thinking in Context of ANA Standards
and QSEN and IOM Competencies
Appendix D:
DEAD ON!! A Critical
Thinking and Clinical Reasoning Game
Glossary