Fundamentals of Nursing, unlike other texts, is not limited to just one specialism, but considers nursing across all fields from Adult, to Child, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities as well as both within the acute and community settings. Fundamentals of Nursing will help you to prepare and succeed in the varied and exciting career you have chosen, enabling you to become the skilled, flexible and confident nurse modern healthcare demands.
Fundamentals of Nursing helps you on this journey with comprehensive coverage of contemporary professional nursing developed to compliment the latest Standards of Proficiency for Pre-Registration Nursing Education (Nursing & Midwifery Council 2010) and the Essential Skills Clusters.
Support for your learning is provided through:
- Full Colour Presentation – view procedures and other visuals in realistic full colour. Diagrams and text features stand out in the colourful and highly developed text design. Black and white and dullness are banned. Don’t accept anything less!
- Step-by-Step Clinical Procedures, often including images, are based on clinical evidence and guide you through the procedure. You will also find Skills revision videos (available within MyNursingKit) which link to these procedures.
- Case Studies – helping to put nursing into context, these realistic scenarios across a range of nursing fields and settings are included in all chapters. Relevant guidance is included to help you understand what you need to consider when confronted with a similar situation. These are suitable for both personal reflection and group discussion.
- Newly Developed Chapters devised by specialists on Mental Health, Child and Learning Disability Nursing have been added to promote the widest possible experience and understanding regardless of your field, promoting the basic skills to meet any patient’s needs independent of age or vulnerability.
- Clinical Alerts highlight particular areas of practice that you need to take into account when caring for an individual or group.
- Activities help you reinforce and prove your learning. Reference answers are provided to check your understanding.
- Lifespan Considerations highlight alternative practices when caring for infants, children and/or older adults.
- Community Considerations provide information on caring for individuals in the home care and community setting. This prepares you for more than just the acute setting.
- MyNursingKit – a premium website integrated with the text providing you with extra practice, revision and support. Including diagnostic tests, interactive scenario simulations and skills videos among other resources. Go to www.pearsoned.co.uk/kozier to login!
Table of Contents:
Contents
List of procedures
Preface
Guided tour of the book
Guided tour of MyNursingKit
Authors’ acknowledgements
Publisher’s acknowledgements
CHAPTER 1 HISTORICAL AND CURRENT NURSING PRACTICE
CHAPTER 2 HEALTH, ILLNESS AND DISEASE
CHAPTER 3 HEALTH PROMOTION
CHAPTER 4 LEGAL ASPECTS OF NURSING
CHAPTER 5 PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF NURSING
CHAPTER 6 MENTAL HEALTH
CHAPTER 7 CHILD HEALTH
CHAPTER 8 LEARNING DISABILITY
CHAPTER 9 NURSING THEORIES, CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS
AND PATHWAYS
CHAPTER 10 THE NURSING PROCESS
CHAPTER 11 PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT
CHAPTER 12 INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
CHAPTER 13 MOVING AND HANDLING: PROMOTING THE SAFETY
OF THE PATIENT AND NURSE
CHAPTER 14 MOBILITY, REST AND SLEEP
CHAPTER 15 VITAL SIGNS
CHAPTER 16 OXYGENATION
CHAPTER 17 HYGIENE
CHAPTER 18 SKIN INTEGRITY AND WOUND CARE
CHAPTER 19 NUTRITION
CHAPTER 20 HYDRATION
CHAPTER 21 URINARY ELIMINATION
CHAPTER 22 BOWEL ELIMINATION
CHAPTER 23 MEDICATION AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 24 PAIN MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 25 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OF AN ACUTELY ILL PATIENT
CHAPTER 26 PRE- AND POST-OPERATIVE CARE
CHAPTER 27 DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
Glossary
Index
Review :
“Comprehensive and nicely laid out with good use of colour to highlight the different approaches to presentation of information. It provides a comprehensive introductory coverage of all the main topics... regardless of branch programme the students will eventually follow. A wide base text which is likely to be useful for several modules rather than a very specific text which students may only use for one module.” - Roger Cobley, Birmingham City University
“The text is an exciting, clear and essential textbook for pre-registration nursing students. It sets the scene, shows application to practice, helps to make nursing practice more understandable and so enhances the student’s learning experience.” - Martin Bailey, Canterbury Christ Church University
“Kozier is an excellent resource for students throughout their training, and could be used as the starting point for most of their assessments. Overall, it is an excellent text that I will have no hesitation in recommending to my students.” - Dorothy Adam, The Robert Gordon University
