Fundamentals of Nursing Volume 1 and Fundamentals of Nursing Volume 2 and Skills Videos, TaberÆs and DavisÆs Drug Guide for Nurses - Package

Your students need to begin thinking like nurses from the moment they walk into your program. Authors Judith Wilkinson and Karen Van Leuven help them with a fresh new approach to teaching Fundamentals of Nursing with their innovative two-volume presentation.

Volume 1: Theory, Concepts, and Applications
Toward Thinking Like a Nurse
Theories on learning have shown that students learn better if they can see how the content will be useful to them. They understand better when presented with something concrete in addition to tackling the abstract definitions and theory. Volume 1 emphasizes the relationship between theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge to encourage each of your students to think like a nurse. This approach allows you to emphasize either theory or practice as it suits you and your students.

* Each chapter starts with Learning Outcomes - a checklist of what your students should know once they've completed the chapter.
* Meet Your Patient, also at the opening of each chapter, introduces your students to the patient they will follow and whose experiences illustrate the principles presented throughout the chapter, thus capturing their interest with real-life scenarios.
* Chapters are divided into two sections. Theoretical Knowledge - Knowing Why and Practical Knowledge - Knowing How reflect how information is communicated in real life and enable your students to focus on just the "why" or the "how." This is where the text's conversational tone is truly evident - the authors sound as if they are talking to your students rather than lecturing them. Headings (often phrased as questions that highlight students' concerns about theinformation), bulleted lists, boxes, and figures break up the text and make it more visually engaging.
* Care Plans are diagramed for visual learning as Care Maps.

Links That Help Your Students Think Like Nurses
The didactic material that you'll cover in your classroom is contained in Volume 1: Theory, Concepts and Applications. The content of this volume is systematically linked to Volume 2: Thinking and Doing in which the critical thinking introduced in Volume 1 continues to be applied, this time to a single unifying case study, to chapter content, and to the clinical procedures that are the core of Volume 2.

* Icons meticulously incorporated throughout the text indicate cross references between the "theory, concepts, and applications" in Volume 1 and the "thinking and doing" in Volume 2.
* Critical Thinking questions ask your students to apply what they've just learned to the patient introduced earlier in the chapter, to a new patient, or to their own lives.
* Chapters include Knowledge Checks, questions designed to allow your students to check their recall of the material they've just read and that are cross referenced to the corresponding answers on the Electronic Study Guide on CD-ROM.
* Toward Evidence Based Practice boxes describe important research that applies to the topic at hand and ask your students to consider higher cognitive level questions about the study or studies. Suggested responses appear on the Electronic Study Guide.
* Includes care plans in both conventional and concept mapping formats that incorporate NIC and NOC as well as NANDA.
* Boxes that focus on Home Care, Teaching for Self Care, Complementary and Alternative Modalities (CAM), and Critical Aspects of Procedures link Volume 1 with the full-scale procedures presented in Volume 2.

Volume 2: Thinking and Doing
Toward Performing Like a Nurse
Everything your students need for learning procedures in clinical or skills lab is in Volume 2. This is incredibly convenient for your students because there is no need to carry the didactic material in Volume 1 to the lab or to carry the applications-based content in Volume 2 to lecture-type classes. Nor will your students have to wade through the text-heavy content, boxes, and tables to follow the "think and do" procedures in the lab as presented in other Fundamentals texts.

* Each chapter in Volume 2 begins with an Overview of the Volume 1 chapter, to refresh your students' memory of the content.
* Thinking Critically About is a set of exercises that require students to use the information they learned in Volume 1. A summary of critical thinking steps is presented in the back of this volume for easy reference by students.
* A unique feature of Volume 2 is the extended case study, Caring for the Garcias, which illustrates and integrates content throughout the whole volume. The Garcia family and their friends and colleagues allow your students to see the human costs and benefits of the procedures they are learning.
* Each Procedure is presented step by step, with rationales interspersed so your students better understand real-world practice. Core procedures as well as variants and alternatives are described. Every procedure is appropriately illustrated with photographs, and equipment, delegation, assessments, evaluation, documentation, home care, and patient teaching are all addressed throughout.
* Each chapter concludes with What Are the Main Points in This Chapter, a summary of the most essential concepts that students should retain. Knowledge Maps diagram the content in the non-procedural chapters.
* Universal procedure steps are presented on the inside back cover of Volume 2, and every procedure begins with a restatement of the critical aspects of the procedure as also shown in Volume 1. For chapters that don't have any procedures, there is a knowledge map - a concept map version of the corresponding chapter's Volume 1 content.

Electronic Study Guide
Volume 1 includes an Electronic Study Guide on CD-ROM which provides interactive learning activities and supplemental information typically found in student study guides at the student's fingertips for every chapter. (It is the equivalent of a 500-page student workbook, FREE!) The ESG allows students to set their own pace for learning and independent study, but also provides materials that can be submitted for review/grading by the instructor. Consistent with the book's appeal across a range of learning styles, the ESG provides for every chapter:

* Learning Outcomes
* Supplemental Materials
* Knowledge Check Response Sheet
* Critical Thinking Response Sheet (for the questions in Volume 1)
* Thinking Critically About...Response Sheet (for the exercises Volume 2)
* Mastery Exercises
* Knowledge Checks Answers
* Mastery Exercises Answers
* Toward Evidence Based Practice Suggested Responses
* Reading More About ... (suggested readings)
* Resources for Health Professionals
* Bonus Chapter on the Canadian Health Care Delivery System (with all the aforementioned bulleted features)

Selected chapters also have:

* Knowledge Map (concept map version of the chapter content)
* Care Plan (supplemental to what's in the book)
* Care Map (concept map version of the care plan)

Additionally, outside the chapter structure, the Electronic Study Guide contains:

* Procedure Checklists
* Selected heart, lung, bowel, and vascular sounds, including blood pressure
* Tutor Test Bank for students (over 200 items - no overlap with instructors' test bank - can be used to self-assess as well as test)
* Dosage Calculator
* Glossary
* "Help" file
Skills Videos to Accompany Wilkinson and Van Leuven's Fundamentals of Nursing

By Judith M. Wilkinson, PhD, ARNP, Nurse Educator/Consultant,
Shawnee, KS.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-1837-4
ISBN-10: 0-8036-1837-9
132 videos on 4 DVDs. ©2007 Available now. $99.95

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Also Includes Skills Videos to Accompany Wilkinson and Van Leuven's Fundamentals of Nursing:

Real Nurses. Real People. Real Skills.

Expert nurses show your students how to perform the skills that ensure their success.
Each skill is presented in three ways. Students can select the approach that works best for them. Or, mix-and-match to make sure that they understand every step.

1. Movie Version-the perfect approach for visual learners!
Watch each skill from beginning to end, without interruption
2. The Voice-Over Version-The best approach for auditory learners!
Learn by viewing the same footage with voiceovers that explain "what" the nurse is doing and "why"
3. The Self-Paced Version-Great approach for kinesthetic learners!
Review video footage in segments to confirm your understanding of each procedure.