Nursing Fundamentals: Caring & Clinical Decision Making

Nursing Fundamentals: Caring and Clinical Decision Making, Second Edition offers a wellness centered, balanced approach to the practice of nursing. Using a functional health patterns framework, the nursing discipline, with its ever changing and dynamic nature, becomes more understandable. Emerging topics such as the enormous impact of technology, strong emphasis on wellness, well researched evidence-based practice and recent expansion of care into the home and community settings are addressed as well as foundational topics of clinical decision making, delegation clinical skills and prioritization.

Nursing Fundamentals: Caring and Clinical Decision Making, Second Edition offers a wellness centered, balanced approach to the practice of nursing. Using a functional health patterns framework, the nursing discipline, with its ever changing and dynamic nature, becomes more understandable. Emerging topics such as the enormous impact of technology, strong emphasis on wellness, well researched evidence-based practice and recent expansion of care into the home and community settings are addressed as well as foundational topics of clinical decision making, delegation clinical skills and prioritization.

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Reviewer:Mary Allen Carey, PhD(University of Oklahoma College of Nursing)
Description:This book brings a wellness-centered approach to the presentation of basic nursing skills.
Purpose:The purpose is to present wellness-focused basic nursing material.
Audience:The intended audience is students studying to become registered nurses.
Features:The book is organized using a functional health patterns framework. It covers basic nursing skills enhanced with emerging topics such as the impact of technology, a significant emphasis on wellness, evidence-based practice, and the care of the patient across healthcare delivery settings. Also prominent are the foundational topics of clinical decision making, principles of delegation, and priority setting.
Assessment:This is a good nursing fundamentals textbook.

Rick Daniels, RN, Ph.D. obtained a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Oregon Nursing School, a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of San Diego and a Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Texas in Austin. He has taught nursing in associate, baccalaureate and graduate schools, as well as RN degree completion programs. In addition, he has taught many adult health and illness topics at seminars and has presented posters for national organizations (e.g., AORN, NLN Educators Conference). Dr. Daniels administers clinical practicum courses in critical care and perioperative nursing arenas and is currently an associate professor with tenure at Oregon Health & Sciences University, School of Nursing.