Written by the author of the best-selling texts on nursing diagnosis and care plans, Understanding the Nursing Process is the first book to tutor students on the nursing process, concept mapping, and care planning all in one text. It guides students systematically through each step, focusing sharply on fundamental need-to-know concepts and using easy-to-understand case studies and learning activities. To teach care planning, the text presents selected nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems that are appropriate for beginning students and grouped from simple to complex. An Instructor's Resource CD-ROM shows how to use the book in a clinical nursing course. Online Tutoring powered by Smarthinking--Free online tutoring, powered by Smarthinking, gives students access to expert nursing and allied health science educators whose mission, like yours, is to achieve success. Students can access live tutoring support, critiques of written work, and other valuable tools.

When you understand the whys of each step the nursing process, it’s easier easy to understand how to apply them in the real world in which you will practice. Take an interactive, step-by-step approach to developing the diagnostic reasoning and problem-solving skills you need to think like a nurse with the resources you’ll find in this unique workbook style text.

Practical, applied, and contemporary, NURSING PROCESS: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATION, 3rd Edition provides you with a thorough step-by-step approach to the nursing process. The third edition clearly examines the nurse's role and responsibilities , as well as, explains, demonstrates, and tests each part of the nursing process to provide you with a logical approach that can be used independently or in a group setting. Updated activities, case studies and a new chapter on Concept Mapping ensures that you are well prepared for your future career. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Because principles of nursing process are the building blocks for all care models, the nursing process is the first model nurses need to learn to “think like a nurse.” This trusted resource provides the practical guidance needed to understand and apply each phase of the nursing process, with an increased emphasis on developing both critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills. With an easy-to-follow and engaging writing style, the author provides strategies, tools, and abundant examples to help nurses develop the skills they need to thrive in today’s complex health care setting.

Assists in applying the nursing practice in the real world. Contains real-life examples, situations, case studies, practice sessions, a Nursing Diagnosis Quick Reference Section and DNA Standards of Nursing Practice.

Designed to provide nursing students, practitioners and educators with a foundation for understanding how to apply theoretical approaches used in the nursing process.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product 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 today's transforming issues - such as managed care, multicultural patient populations, home health care, and illness prevention. Doesn't 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.