Study Guide for Fundamentals of Nursing

by Barbara L. Yoost MSN, RN, CNE, ANEF, Lynne R. Crawford MSN, MBA, RN, CNE, Patricia Castaldi DNP, RN

Overview

Get the review and practice you need to master the role of today’s nurse! With chapters corresponding to the chapters in Yoost’s Fundamentals of Nursing, 3rd Edition, this study guide provides a variety of exercises and activities to reinforce your understanding of nursing concepts and skills. Chapter reviews use engaging activities to make learning more meaningful, and review questions help you apply concepts to the practice setting. Now with new Next Generation NCLEX^®-style practice questions, this study guide also prepares you for success on classroom and NCLEX examinations.

• Chapter review questions include multiple-choice, matching, true/false, and image labeling questions, testing your comprehension of nursing fundamentals and making learning more fun.
• Answers and detailed rationales for all of the questions are included in the back of the study guide.
• Skills performance checklists on the Evolve website are completely updated to match the latest versions of nursing skills, and are both interactive and printable.

• NEW! Next Generation NCLEX^®-style practice questions in clinical chapters help you develop skills in clinical judgment.
• NEW! Updated content reflects changes to the Fundamentals of Nursing, 3rd Edition textbook.
• NEW! Preliminary Readings refer you back to the related chapter in the textbook.
• NEW! Open-ended questions provide questions, activities, and guidance to make study group time more productive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323828147
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	03/07/2022
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

1. Nursing, Theory, and Professional Practice
2. Values, Beliefs, and Caring
3. Communication
4. Critical Thinking in Nursing
5. Introduction to the Nursing Process
6. Assessment
7. Nursing Diagnosis
8. Planning
9. Implementation and Evaluation
10. Documentation, Electronic Health Records, and Reporting
11. Ethical and Legal Considerations
12. Leadership and Management
13. Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing Research
14. Health Literacy and Patient Education
15. Nursing Informatics
16. Health and Wellness
17. Human Development: Conception through Adolescence
18. Human Development: Young Adult through Older Adult
19. Vital Signs
20. Health History and Physical Assessment
21. Ethnicity and Cultural Assessment
22. Spiritual Health
23. Public Health, Community-Based, and Home Health Care
24. Human Sexuality
25. Safety
26. Asepsis and Infection Control
27. Hygiene and Personal Care
28. Activity, Immobility, and Safe Movement
29. Skin Integrity and Wound Care
30. Nutrition
31. Cognitive and Sensory Alterations
32. Stress and Coping
33. Sleep
34. Diagnostic Testing
35. Medication Administration
36. Pain Management
37. Perioperative Nursing Care
38. Oxygenation and Tissues Perfusion
39. Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance
40. Bowel Elimination
41. Urinary Elimination
42. Death and Loss

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