Potter & Perry's Fundamentals of nursing / Australian adaptation edited by Jackie Crisp [and others].

"This edition is an adaptation of the eighth edition of Fundamentals of nursing, by Patricia Potter ... [et al.]"-- t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Evolving nursing, nursing and the healthcare environment -- Part 2. Framing nursing, critical processes in nursing practice -- Part 3. Positioning nursing, professional responsibilities in nursing practice -- Part 4. Adapting nursing, nursing across the life span -- Part 5. Relating nursing, human basis of nursing practice -- Part 6. Practising nursing, scientific basis of nursing practice -- Part 7. Focusing nursing, basic human needs -- Part 8. Situating nursing, context of care.

This book presents an engaging approach to the fundamentals of nursing while building on its renowned reputation as the foremost text for nursing students across Australia and New Zealand. This edition presents a critical thinking approach, to encourage the critical skills and understandings students require to maintain a high level of active engagement in the development of their practice within the health care systems they will work throughout their careers. Meaningful clinical examples combined with critical thinking questions, promote reflection and support deeper learning. These examples underscore how putting quality nursing knowledge and skills into practice can mean the difference between patient recovery and independence versus life threatening complications and patient decline.

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