Concepts for nursing practice /
[edited by] Jean Foret Giddens.
- xvi, 559 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Patient profile concepts. Attributes and resources. Development -- Functional ability -- Family dynamics -- Personal preferences. Culture -- Motivation -- Adherence -- Health and illness concepts. Homeostasis and regulation. Fluid and electrolyte balance -- Acid-base balance -- Thermoregulation -- Cellular regulation -- Intracranial regulation -- Glucose regulation -- Nutrition -- Elimination -- Oxygenation and hemostasis. Perfusion -- Gas exchange -- Clotting -- Sexuality and reproduction. Reproduction -- Sexuality -- Protection and movement. Immunity -- Inflammation -- Infection -- Mobility -- Tissue Integrity -- Sensory Perception -- Pain -- Coping and stress tolerance. Stress -- Coping -- Emotion. Mood and affect -- Anxiety -- Cognitive function. Cognition -- Psychosis -- Maladaptive behavior. Addiction -- Interpersonal violence -- Professional nursing and health care concepts. Attributes and roles of nurse. Professionalism -- Clinical judgment -- Leadership -- Ethics -- Patient education -- Health promotion -- Care competencies. Communication -- Collaboration -- Safety -- Technology and informatics -- Evidence -- Health care quality -- Health care delivery. Care coordination -- Caregiving -- Palliation -- Health care infrastructures. Health care organizations -- Health care economics -- Health policy -- Health care law.
Concepts for Nursing Practice uses a simplified, intuititve approach to connect concepts across the entire nursing curriculum. Fifty-three of the most important concepts, written by leading subject matter experts, are organized into three units. Unit One covers patient profile concepts, which are the concepts that lay the foundation for a patient-centered approach to nursing. Unit Two, the core of the content, emphasizes biophysical and psychosocial concepts that relate to individuals seeking health care. The focus of these concepts is on the health-and-illness continuum across the lifespan. Unit Three covers concepts related to professionalism and the whole of the healthcare system related to the delivery of health care, professional aspects of nursing, and health policy. This unit also covers the QSEN competencies. Original full-color illustrations and model cases depict the principles of each concept and show how concepts are related. A list of exemplars in each concept chapter convey the most common health conditions or situations pertaining to the concept.