Main description:

Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 6th Edition prepares students to learn the basic concepts and fundamental skills that LPNs/LVNs need to practice in a number of care settings, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, medical offices, clinics, surgery centres, and home care agencies. This second South Asia Edition of DeWit's Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing is a uniquely featured textbook, designed to make a worthy impact on its readers. The book is customised as per the revised B.Sc. Nursing curriculum prescribed by the Indian Nursing Council (INC) to meet the learning requirements of undergraduate students. Nursing professionals aspiring for higher education or career progression will also find this book useful for reference.
The full-colour text contains theoretical nursing concepts, step-by-step skills and procedures, and clinical applications to build a strong foundation in the patient care experience. The underlying framework of all the chapters pivots around the nursing process, and also portrays the concepts like psycho-social aspects, critical thinking, communication skills, inter- professional collaborations, patient-family education and cultural integrity.

. Discusses more than 80 essential skills and around 30 petite forms of skills with step-by-step format supported with coloured illustrations along with action/rationale format
. Each chapter starts with key terms, objectives and has supportive glossary
. Enhanced with stimulating highpoints such as Special Clinical Cues, Cultural Considerations, Lifespan Considerations, Focused Assessment, Health Promotion, Legal & Ethical Considerations, Patient Education, QSEN Considerations, Safety Alert and Think Critically boxes
. Includes nursing process framework featuring the application of the nursing process and nursing care plans, reinforcing its application in the clinical setting
. More than 20 Nursing Care Plans illustrating each step of the nursing process
. Includes Concept Maps that help students visualise concepts addressed in the text and learn how a condition or response (relating to symptoms, treatments, and side effects) can affect more than one body system

Contents:

UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO NURSING AND THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
1 Concepts of Health, Illness, Stress, Illness Prevention, Health Promotion and The Health Care System
2 Nursing in the Health Care System
3 Nursing as a Profession
4 Legal and Ethical Aspects of Nursing
UNIT II COMMUNICATION IN NURSING
5 Communication and the Nurse-Patient Relationship
6 Patient Education and Health Promotion
7 Documentation and Reporting
8 Essentials for Collaborative Practice
UNIT III CRITICAL THINKING AND NURSING
9 Critical Thinking-The Core of Good Nursing
10 The Nursing Process-An Overview
UNIT IV DEVELOPMENTAL, PSYCHOSOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN
11 Overview of Growth and Development: From Conception to Birth and Infancy through Adolescence
12 Adulthood and the Family
13 Promoting Healthy Adaptation to Ageing
14 Cultural and Spiritual Aspects of Patient Care
15 Loss, Grief and End-of-Life Care
UNIT V BASIC NURSING SKILLS
16 Prevention and Control of Infections, Nature of Infections, Body's Protective Mechanisms and Asepsis
17 Infection Prevention and Control in the Hospital and Home
18 Safely Lifting, Moving and Positioning Patients
19 Assisting With Hygiene, Personal Care, Skin Care and the Prevention of Pressure Injuries
20 Promoting Environmental Safety
21 Measuring Vital Signs
22 Assessing Health Status
23 Admitting, Transferring and Discharging Patients
24 Assisting with Diagnostic Tests and Specimen Collection
25 First Aid and Bandaging
UNIT VI MEETING BASIC PHYSIOLOGIC NEEDS
26 Fluid, Electrolyte and Acid-Base Balance
27 Concepts of Basic Nutrition and Cultural Considerations
28 Nutritional Therapy and Assisted Feeding
29 Assisting With Respiration and Oxygen Delivery
30 Promoting Urinary Elimination
31 Promoting Bowel Elimination
32 Pain, Comfort, Rest and Sleep
33 Complementary Health Approaches
UNIT VII MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
34 Pharmacology and Preparation for Drug Administration
35 Administering Oral, Topical and Inhalant Medications
36 Administering Intradermal, Subcutaneous, and Intramuscular Injections
37 Administering Intravenous Solutions and Medications
UNIT VIII CARE OF THE SURGICAL AND IMMOBILE PATIENT
38 Care of the Surgical Patient
39 Providing Wound Care and Treating Pressure Injuries
40 Promoting Musculoskeletal Functioning to Prevent Dangers of Immobility
UNIT IX CARING FOR OLDER ADULTS
41 Common Physical Care Problems of the Older Adult
42 Common Psychosocial Care Problems of the Older Adult