Fundamentals of Nursing Textbook 2026 : Principles and Practice of Patient-Centered Care, Clinical Judgment, and Essential Skills for Prelicensure Students

Anthony S. Houle MD

ISBN 13: 9798190721522

Published by Independently Published Aug 2026, 2026

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• Title: Fundamentals of Nursing Textbook 2026 : Principles and Practice of Patient-Centered Care, Clinical Judgment, and Essential Skills for Prelicensure Students
• Publisher: Independently Published Aug 2026
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798190721522
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 279W x 216H x 19D millimeters 279 millimeters width by 216 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 813 grams

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Synopsis

Built for the student who must turn textbook knowledge into safe, prioritized bedside action before the first clinical rotation ends, this reference grounds every chapter in the same six-layer reasoning cycle — Recognize Cues, Analyze Cues, Prioritize Hypotheses, Generate Solutions, Take Action, Evaluate Outcomes — that anchors the Next Generation NCLEX's Clinical Judgment Measurement Model. It moves from the legal and theoretical foundations of practice through the full nursing process and into the basic human needs, patient safety, and whole-person psychosocial and end-of-life content that fill the bulk of everyday nursing care. Seventy-three worked clinical judgment pathways translate that six-layer model into real bedside decisions, not abstract theory.

Structured decision pathways, evidence-based practice standards, and a cross-referenced clinical judgment index turn dense content into decisions you can defend at the bedside or on exam day.

• Apply the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model directly — the same six-layer reasoning tested on the Next Generation NCLEX, worked through seventy-three real bedside scenarios.

• Build an accurate nursing diagnosis — NANDA-I structure, PES statements, and the reasoning that separates two similar-sounding diagnostic labels.

• Catch a deteriorating patient before the crisis — multi-parameter vital sign trend recognition that flags danger before any single value crosses an alert threshold.

• Administer medication safely — the expanded rights of administration, dimensional analysis dosage calculation, and high-alert medication safeguards.

• Manage the basic human needs that fill every shift — skin integrity, mobility, oxygenation, fluid and electrolyte balance, nutrition, and elimination, each built around its own decision pathway.

• Navigate the whole patient, not just the diagnosis — therapeutic communication, cultural and spiritual care, and psychosocial crisis intervention, including suicide risk assessment.

• Provide confident end-of-life care — palliative symptom management, goals-of-care conversations, and family support through grief and loss.

• Locate any pathway in seconds — a cross-referenced Clinical Judgment Pathway Index maps all seventy-three decision points by clinical domain and common trigger.

Open it before your next clinical shift — the reasoning every patient in your care depends on, built one decision at a time.