CD-ROM includes: critical thinking case studies, fluids and electrolytes tutorial, skills performance checklists, and glossary

Includes bibliographical references and index

CONTENTS


unit 1. The client and the health care environment
1. Health and wellness
2. The health care delivery system
3. Community-based nursing practice
4. Leadership, delegation, and quality management
5. Theoretical foundations of nursing practice
unit 2. Caring throughout the life span
6. Nursing healing and caring
7. Diversity in caring
8. Caring in families
9. Developmental theories
10. Conception through adolescence
11. Young to middle adult
12. Older adult
unit 3. Critical thinking in nursing practice
13. Critical thinking and nursing judgment
14. Nursing assessment
15. Nursing diagnosis
16. Planning for nursing care
17. Implementing nursing care
18. Evaluation
unit 4. Professional standards in nursing practice
19. Professional nursing roles
20. Ethics and values
21. Legal implications in nursing practice
22. Communication
23. Client education
24. Documentation
25. Research as a basis for practice
unit 5. Psychosocial basis for nursing practice
26. Self-concept
27. Sexuality
28. Spiritual health
29. Responding to loss, death, and grieving
30. Stress and adaptation
unit 6. -- Scientific basis for nursing practice
31. Vital signs
32. Health assessment and physical examination
33. Infection control
34. Medication administration
35. Complementary and alternative therapies
unit 7. Basic human needs
36. Activity and exercise
37. Safety
38. Hygiene
39. Oxygenation
40. Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances
41. Sleep
42. Comfort
43. Nutrition
44. Urinary elimination
45. Bowel elimination
unit 8. Clients with special needs
46. Mobility and immobility
47. Skin integrity and wound care
48. Sensory Alterations
49. Surgical client

System requirements for accompanying computer disc: Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0 and Macintosh