Fundamentals: Perspectives on the Art and Science of Canadian Nursing

by Gregory RN PhD, David

• ISBN13: 9781605470900
• ISBN10: 1605470902
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781496398482
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2014-01-01
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Summary

Prepare your baccalaureate nursing students for the realities of effective nursing practice in the 21st century with Fundamentals: Perspectives on the Art and Science of Canadian Nursing. Developed by talented Canadian nurses, scholars, educators, and students who share a passion for nursing and nursing education, this newly developed text covers nursing fundamentals, new and ongoing developments in the working environments of Canadian nurses , key skills and elements of practice, and the multifaceted role of today’s Canadian nurse.
                      
Students not only learn nursing fundamentals (knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes), but they also develop an understanding of the place of nursing in Canadian society. Approaching nursing in Canada from a variety of perspectives, the book covers a wide range of topics including historical aspects of nursing in Canada, teaching and learning, nursing skills, communication, medication administration, patient safely, nursing research, and cultural considerations, developmental need.  In addition, the book is accompanied by a wide range of online teaching and learning resources that save you time and help your students succeed.
 
Instructor Resources:
 

• PowerPoint presentations assist you in integrating the textbook with your students’ classroom experience, via either handouts or slide shows.
• A robust test generator of NCLEX-style questions makes it easy for you to put together tests to assess your students’ understanding.
• Learning Objectives for each chapter provide a valuable checklist for assessing student mastery of key content.
• Answers to Questions in the Book are provided for your convenience.
• A complete image bank enhances lecture and exam preparation.
• Journal Articles offer access to research available in LWW journals.
• Skills Checklists help you evaluate your students’ mastery of skills.

 
Student Resources:
 

• Watch & View Video Clips reinforce skills from the textbook and appeal to visual and auditory learners.
• Practice & Learn Activities present case scenarios with interactive exercises and questions to help students apply what they have learned.
• Concepts in Action Animations bring concepts to life and enhance student comprehension.
• Learning Objectives for each chapter provide an outline of key content that must be mastered.
• Skills Checklists help students evaluate their mastery of skills.
• Journal Articles offer access to current research available in LWW journals.
• Web Resources direct students to excellent sources of additional

Table of Contents

Unit 1: Knowing
Chapter  1: An Introduction to Canadian Nursing
Chapter 2: Health Care in Canada and Issues of Health-Care Reform
Chapter 3: Complementary and alternative medicine: Health and healing for patients and nurses
Chapter 4: Nursing as a regulated profession:  Standards of practice
Chapter 5: Health care and the law in Canada
Chapter 6: Nursing organizations: Nursing leadership in action
Chapter 7: The Journey From Student to Graduate Nurse
 
Unit 2: Thinking
Chapter 8: Health, wellness, and illness
Chapter 9: Ethics and integrity in practice: Moral dilemmas and moral issues
Chapter 10: The nursing process in the 21st century
Chapter 11: Nursing Theory and Theories Used in Nursing
Chapter 12: Nursing research and evidence-informed practice
Chapter 13: Culture and cultural safety: Beyond cultural inventories
Chapter 14: Improving Patient and Nurse Safety:  Learning From Past Experiences
Chapter 15: Educative nursing practice: A role for professional nurses
Chapter 16: Ways of Thinking: Critical Thinking in Nursing
Chapter 17: Transforming Nursing Education through simulation
Chapter 18: Family Nursing and Community Health Nursing
 
Unit 3: Being
Chapter 19: Principles of asepsis
Chapter 20: Health assessment across the lifespan
Chapter 21: Measuring Vital Signs
Chapter 22: Principles and practice of medication administration
Chapter 23: Effective documentation
Chapter 24: Informatics, e-technologies, and nursing
Chapter 25: Reflection and reflexivity: On being a nurse
 
Unit 4: Interacting
Chapter 26: Communication: At the heart of nursing practice
Chapter 27: Addressing developmental needs across the lifespan
Chapter 28: Fostering a positive self-concept
Chapter 29: Patient hygiene
Chapter 30: Creating comfort and managing pain
Chapter 31: Balancing activity and rest
Chapter 32: Oxygenation
Chapter 33: Supporting fluid and electrolyte balance
Chapter 34: Ensuring nutrition
Chapter 35: Supporting elimination
Chapter 36: Skin care
 
Unit 5: Understanding
Chapter 37: Immigrant Canadians
Chapter 38: Vulnerable populations and nursing: Vulnerability as a health equity concern
Chapter 39: Aboriginal people and nursing
Chapter 40: Spirituality and Nursing: Presence and Promise
Chapter 41: Nursing as lifelong learning