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Overview
This innovative text uses concrete examples and hands-on exercises to help students clearly understand and apply the steps of the nursing process to today's rapidly changing healthcare environment. Moving beyond step-by-step instructions, NURSING PROCESS AND CRITICAL THINKING, 5/e encourages students to think about each part of the nursing process and use critical thinking to make better clinical decisions. Balancing practical and conceptual aspects of the nursing process, this edition includes an expanded interactive format, new Take Away Points, What do You Know, and Think About It features and a student resourceswebsite to help students begin to think like a nurse.
This is an interactive text with a decription of the nursing process and critical thinking. The author explains how to use these skills to provide excellent care in today's rapidly changing healthcare environment and how to adapt standardized approaches in order to meet the unique needs of individual patients. Case studies and exercises are opportunities to apply learned concepts of critical thinking and nursing process to real-world situations.
Synopsis
This innovative text uses concrete examples and hands-on exercises to help readers clearly understand and apply the five steps of the nursing process. Wellness concepts and independent critical thinking, major emphases of this text, are incorporated into each step of the nursing process.
Book provides extensive treatment of collaborative practice and delegation, critical thinking, case management and critical pathways.
For those interested in understanding the nursing process within a framework for providing holistic care.