Kozier and Erb's fundamentals of nursing : concepts, process, and practice /
Audrey Berman, Shirlee J. Synder and Geralyn Frandsen
- Tenth edition.
- New Jersey : Pearson Education Limited, c2017
- 1533 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Includes index.
Unit 1: The nature of nursing -- Unit 2: Contemporary health care -- Unit 3: The nursing process -- Unit 4: Health beliefs and practices -- Unit 5: Life span development -- Unit 6: Integral aspects of nursing -- Unit 7: Assessing health -- Unit 8: Integral components of client care -- Unit 9: Promoting psychosocial health -- Unit 10: Promoting physiological health
Consistency and accessibility are essential to student success in the Fundamentals of Nursing course. With its clear, approachable, writing style, Kozier & Erb’s Fundamentals of Nursing sets the foundation for nursing excellence. Coverage of the key concepts of contemporary nursing, as well as the latest nursing evidence, standards, and competencies, helps prepare readers to become effective nurses. To help students develop their clinical-reasoning abilities, new QSEN features draw connections to actual nursing practice. All basic and fundamental skills for the registered nurse are described within the nursing process. Students will learn to think like nurses as they see how the material they are reading is applied in nursing practice.