Download or read book Applying Nursing Process written by Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because principles of nursing process are the building blocks for all care models, the nursing process is the first model nurses need to learn to “think like a nurse.” This trusted resource provides the practical guidance needed to understand and apply each phase of the nursing process, with an increased emphasis on developing both critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills. With an easy-to-follow and engaging writing style, the author provides strategies, tools, and abundant examples to help nurses develop the skills they need to thrive in today’s complex health care setting.
Download or read book Nursing Process and Critical Thinking written by Judith M. Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Critical Thinking in Nursing written by Saundra K. Lipe and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text introduces nursing students to the cognitive skills, or thought processes, required of professional nurses. Using a practical approach and a nursing process framework throughout, the book provides a bridge between the theory and the application of these skills. Cognitive skills are presented in a competency-based, clinically oriented format, with emphasis on teaching critical thinking. Chapters end with a workbook section, to provide students with real-world applications of what they have learned. Case studies and checklists throughout aid the student in applying content. The book is written at an accessible reading level.
Download or read book Applying Nursing Process written by Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This trusted resource combines the practical guidance students need to understand each phase of the nursing process with an emphasis on critical thinking, focusing on both independent and collaborative responsibilities facing today's nurses. Using straightforward language, abundant examples, and real case scenarios, the book addresses the nurse's role as a caregiver and decision-maker in a range of settings—from clinic to the home, community, research, and acute care arenas. A new focus and design help readers build essential critical thinking and problem solving skills and apply them within the nursing process framework. A companion Website provides a variety of tools such as patient self-assessment tool, clinical decision map, NCLEX� resources, and much more.
Download or read book Nursing Process and Critical Thinking written by Judith M. Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Back Cover: Nursing process and critical thinking uses concrete examples and hands-on exercises to help you understand and apply this fundamental decision-making process. Numerous case studies help develop effective problem-solving and critical thinking skills. Updated! NANDA, NIC, and NOC terminology. New! Online student resources website with additional content, critical thinking questions and answers, NCLEX questions and answers (nursing.pearsonhighered.com). New! Take Away Points summarize key points. New! What do you know questions help students stop and think about what they have read and learned. New! Think about it questions provide an opportunity to reflect on book content and participate in class discussions.
Download or read book Medical Surgical Nursing Care written by Karen M. Burke and published by Pearson Higher Ed. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 1479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical Surgical Nursing Care 3e has an even stronger focus on the professional Practical nursing program and is a key component in the LPN/LVN series at Pearson. It has a clear and readable writing style, it provides a strong foundation for understanding common disorders that affect adults. Opening units of the book focus on concepts, issues, and foundational knowledge. The units that follow focus on common diseases and disorders organized by body system. Each unit begins with review of the system’s structure and function, nursing assessment, and commonly used diagnostic tests for disorders of that system. To facilitate learning, disorder-specific content follows a consistent pattern, beginning with discussion about the disorder, its risk factors, causes, effects on the body, manifestations, and possible complications. Because nurses are integral members of the healthcare team, interdisciplinary care sections include nursing implications for medications, nutritional therapies, surgery and other treatments, including complementary therapies. Each disorder concludes with nursing care, including priorities of care, health promotion, assessment, nursing care measures, and a section addressing continuity of care to home or the community. This text provides more depth in common disease processes, their treatment, and related nursing care. Although organized by body systems for clarity, the book retains a nursing focus throughout. Rationales are provided for nursing interventions to help the student understand the “why,” not just the “what.”
Download or read book Nursing Process written by Judith M. Wilkinson and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1996 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative text uses concrete examples and hands-on exercises to help students clearly understand and apply the five steps of the nursing process. In each, wellness concepts and independent critical thinking, major emphases of this text, are incorporated into each step of the nursing process.
Download or read book Nursing process and critical thinking written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Applying Nursing Process written by Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 1998 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assists in applying the nursing practice in the real world. Contains real-life examples, situations, case studies, practice sessions, a Nursing Diagnosis Quick Reference Section and DNA Standards of Nursing Practice.
Download or read book Critical Thinking TACTICS for Nurses written by Gaie Rubenfeld and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Thinking TACTICS for Nurses: Achieving the IOM Competencies is a reader-friendly guide to performing, learning and evaluating critical thinking in all aspects of nursing care. Award winning authors M. Gaie Rubenfeld and Barbara K. Scheffer draw on their research and expertise in teaching and practice to blend critical thinking components with the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) five core competencies: patient-centered care, interdisciplinary team work, evidence-based practice, informatics, and quality improvement. Issues addressed include critical thinking language and awareness enhancement, the impact of critical thinking on quality care, mentoring the critical thinking of staff and students and designing performance criteria for critical thinking. New to this edition: Significant updates and additional current references to all 5 IOM chapters. New Chapter 10 - Assessing Critical Thinking. New Chapter 11 - Thinking Realities of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. New “stories” from practicing nurses and others.
Download or read book Nursing Process in Action written by Judith M. Wilkinson and published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Medical/Nursing Division. This book was released on 1992 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a user-friendly, step-by-step, workbook-like approach to the five-step Nursing Process, with special emphasis on the most important and difficult step--nursing diagnosis. Creative, helpful exercises allow readers to practice immediately what they've learned about the nursing process. The inclusion of critical thinking, wellness diagnoses, and ethical aspects of each step makes this a unique and important book.
Download or read book Critical Thinking in Nursing written by M. Gaie Rubenfeld and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 1995 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A user-friendly, interactive text for beginning students, focusing on critical thinking as it is used with the nursing process, and featuring numerous exercises, checklists, and case studies, plus space for writing answers and reflections. Parts I and II overview and detail the nursing process, and Part III focuses on communicating the thinking and nursing process. Part IV applies concepts in a patient situation. This second edition contains a new chapter on working with patients to design care, and integrates information on nursing interventions and outcomes classification. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Critical Thinking in Nursing written by Elsie L. Bandman and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1995 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition identifies and strengthens critical thinking skills in nursing, emphasizing the value of applying systematic reasoning to clarify conflicts experienced by nurses, resolve controversial moral issues, and make sound judgments. It also helps strengthen intellectual and scientific acuity through the use of reason and logic, and examines the use of argument in nursing. Advanced nursing students.
Download or read book Clinical Reasoning written by Tracy Levett-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Australian text designed to address the key area of clinical reasoning in nursing practice. Using a series of authentic scenarios, Clinical Reasoning guides students through the clinical reasoning process while challenging them to think critically about the nursing care they provide. With scenarios adapted from real clinical situations that occurred in healthcare and community settings, this edition continues to address the core principles for the provision of quality care and the prevention of adverse patient outcomes.
Download or read book Critical Thinking Clinical Reasoning and Clinical Judgment E Book written by Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's behind every healed patient? Critical thinking! And what book best equips you to master the critical thinking skills needed for success on the NCLEX examination and in professional nursing practice? Alfaro's Critical Thinking, Clinical Reasoning, and Clinical Judgment, 6th Edition! With a motivational style and insightful "how-to" approach, this unique textbook draws upon real-life scenarios and evidence-based strategies as it guides you in learning to think critically in clinically meaningful ways. The new edition features a more streamlined, full-color design, and expanded coverage on some of key trends, including: interdisciplinary care teams, competency-based education, the IOM’s Leading Health Indicators, legal considerations, the effects of the Affordable Care Act, and much more. If you want to truly succeed in nursing practice today and be thinking-oriented rather than task-oriented, then look no further than this one-of-a-kind textbook. Simple approach and motivational writing style include vivid examples, memorable anecdotes, and real case scenarios to make content come alive. Practical strategies to promote critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment are incorporated along with supporting evidence as to why the strategies work. Focus on application (or "how to") and inclusion of supporting rationales (theory) make difficult concepts easy to learn. Critical thinking indicators feature evidence-based descriptions from the author of behaviors that promote critical thinking in nursing practice. Highlighted features and sections — such as Chapter at a Glance, Pre-Chapter Self-Tests, Guiding Principles, Critical Moments, Other Perspectives, Think-Pair-Share, Help Me Out cartoons, real-life clinical scenarios, key points, critical thinking exercises, and more — promote independent learning. UNIQUE! Brain-based learning principles utilize strategies that challenge the mind and are incorporated throughout the text. Timely coverage includes topical issues, such as: problem-focused versus outcome-focused thinking, prioritizing, developing a culture of safety, healthy work environments, expanding roles related to diagnosis and management, applying delegation principles, evidence-based practice, improving grades and passing tests the first time, NCLEX preparation, ensuring documentation reflects critical thinking, communication and interpersonal skills, strategies for common workplace challenges, and more. Inclusion of ethics- and standards-based professional practice reflects today’s professional climate which demands increasing accountability. Incorporation of cultural, spiritual, and lifespan content along with the nurse’s role in hospitals, communities, and long-term care settings presents a broad approach to critical thinking. Discussion of Tanner and Benner’s most recent work on what the research says about critical thinking and clinical judgment in nursing keeps readers up to date on the evidence-based side of practice. Coverage of IOM, QSEN, and other patient safety standards also keeps readers up to date on safe and effective nursing care.
Download or read book Critical Thinking in Nursing written by Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and revised, the second edition of this unique and popular text promotes the critical thinking and professional skills needed to face the challenges of today's rapidly changing health care system. Readers learn both skills and theory in a manner that is practical and easy to read. A completely new chapter provides clinical guidelines for mastering the workplace skills suggested by National Educational Goals 2000. And, a wealth of examples, analogies, case studies, and practice sessions provide readers with a truly interactive experience. These practice scenarios illustrate "real-world" challenges such as communicating bad news, working in teams, managing conflict, and satisfying customers.
Download or read book Nursing Process and Critical Thinking the Nursing Process DVD written by Concept Media and published by Concept Media. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This program presents the nursing process as a system for planning nursing care. Using a realistic patient care scenario, the five steps of the process are identified and described as a student nurse and her professional colleagues work to improve a patient's care. It includes techniques of therapeutic communication with the patient, family, and nursing staff.
