Generations of nursing students have discovered the scope, the importance, and the fundamental processes of their chosen profession with this one-of-a-kind, reader-friendly text. Using a helpful building-block approach, and filled with many thought-provoking historical and cultural vignettes, Understanding the Nursing Process in a Changing Care Environment breaks the nursing process into logically organized steps for ease of comprehension. Newly updated, the sixth edition considers the nursing process against the backdrop of todays transforming issues--such as managed care, multicultural patient populations, home health care, and illness prevention. Doesnt your nursing career deserve a resource like Understanding the Nursing Process in a Changing Care Environment?
Look For These Important Features
Learn-as-you-go approach with self-test questions following every step
Clear introductions to patient assessment, nursing diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation
Critical thinking sections and guidelines in each chapter
Information and guidelines to culturally competent nursing care in each chapter
Discussion and application of managed care in each chapter
Current professional guidelines and issues
Separate pocket guide to nursing diagnosis
Across the continuum case study and critical pathway example from ambulatory clinic setting, to hospital, to home care
Also, New To This Edition 6, Youll Find:
Revised ANA and JCAHO standards of care
NANDA nursing diagnosis for 1999-2000
Added illustrations
Internet and technology resources in nursing
Improved and updated Pocket Nursing Diagnosis Guide
Sections in each chapter on:
critical thinking
culturally competent nursing care
managed care
