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Elsevier Potter and Perrys Essentials of Nursing Foundation 1st South Asia Edition 2022 by Sharma
Get a solid foundation in essential nursing principles, concepts, and skills! Potter & Perry’s Essentials of Nursing Practice, First South Asia Edition combines everything you need from your fundamentals course and streamlines it into a format that’s perfect for busy nursing students. The South Asia edition retains many classic features, including chapter case studies, procedural guidelines, and special considerations for various age groups, along with new content including a chapter on Complementary and Alternative Therapies, a new Reflective Learning section, and QSEN activities to encourage active learning. Thoroughly reviewed by nursing clinical experts and educators, this new edition ensures you learn nursing Essentials with the most accurate, up-to-date, and easy-to-understand book on the market.
Key Features:-
- NEW! Chapter on Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Therapies addresses new content included on the NCLEX® exam.
- NEW! Clinical case studies guide students through creation of care plans and foster clinical thinking.
- NEW! UNIQUE! Reflective Learning section helps students better understand and reflect on their clinical and simulation experiences as they move through their first nursing course.
- NEW! Updated standards and evidence throughout includes the newest INS and WOCN standards.
- TEACH for Nurses suite of educator resources gives you all the tools you need to make your course as effective and easy as possible.
- Progressive case studies are introduced at the beginning of the chapter and are then used to tie together the care plan, concept map, and clinical decision-making exercises.
- QSEN activity boxes throughout present a clinical situation followed by an open-ended question designed to help students understand and apply these core competencies.
- Evidence-Based Practice boxes include a PICO question, summary of the results of a research study, and a description of how the study has affected nursing practice — in every chapter.
- 65 Skills and procedural guidelines provide clear, step-by-step instructions for providing safe nursing care.
- Delegation coverage is specifically outlined, noting which skills can and cannot be delegated, and indicating exactly which tasks to delegate.
- Patient-Centered Care boxes address racial and ethnic diversity along with the cultural differences that impact socioeconomic status, values, geography, and religion. These will relate to the chapter case studies when possible.
- Safety guidelines for nursing skills sections precede each skills section to help students focus on safe and effective skills performance.
- Nursing skills at the end of each chapter feature coloring on the edge of the page to make them easy to locate.
- Focused Patient Assessment tables include actual questions to help students learn how to effectively phrase questions to patients as well as target physical assessment techniques.
- Evaluation boxes bring everything together after nursing interventions have been implemented.
- Patient Teaching boxes help students plan effective teaching by first identifying an outcome, then developing strategies on how to teach, and finally, implementing measures to evaluate learning.
- Unexpected outcomes and related interventions for skills alert students to possible problems and appropriate nursing action.
- Concept maps visually demonstrate planning care for patients with multiple diagnoses.
- NOC outcomes, NIC interventions, and NANDA diagnoses are incorporated in care plans to reflect the standard used by institutions nationwide.
- 5-step nursing process provides a consistent framework for clinical chapters.
- Key points neatly summarize the most important content for each chapter to help students review and evaluate learning.