Fundamentals of Nursing: Human Health and Function (Craven, Fundamentals of Nursing: Human Health and Function) - Hardcover

Craven, Ruth F.; Hirnle, Constance J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0781780233 ISBN 13: 9780781780230

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008

Synopsis

Craven and Hirnle's Fundamentals of Nursing is a groundbreaking text that maintains a strong emphasis on critical thinking by weaving it throughout each chapter. The chapters open with a clinical vignette followed by critical thinking questions, and include Apply Your Knowledge Checkpoint Boxes, Therapeutic Dialogues Boxes, Collaborating with the Healthcare Team Boxes, and Ethical-Legal Boxes that together build students' decision-making abilities and clinical judgement. This Sixth Edition offers a completely revised skills presentation and a brand-new art program of nearly 1,000 drawings and photographs. It also has an increased focus on patient safety, communication, and evidence-based research in practice.

Now available for purchase with the textbook are a variety of resources that include Craven and Hirnle's Nursing Fundamentals and Procedures Online and Lippincott's Video Series: Nursing Procedures, along with a printed Study Guide and Procedures Checklists.

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Review

Practice and Learn -- icons direct students to free interactive activities that allow students to apply skills to patient care. Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- explores key modalities and the nurse's role in assisting clients who use such therapies and treatments. IHI Evidence Based Bundles for Patient Safety -- teaches the rationale behind applying the evidence and how to improve patient safety with every intervention

Edition details

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0781780233
• ISBN 13: 9780781780230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 1513