Nursing Process and Critical Thinking


Book Description

This innovative text uses concrete examples and hands-on exercises to help readers clearly understand and apply the five steps of the nursing process. Wellness concepts and independent critical thinking, major emphases of this text, are incorporated into each step of the nursing process. Book provides extensive treatment of collaborative practice and delegation, critical thinking, case management and critical pathways. For those interested in understanding the nursing process within a framework for providing holistic care.




Applying Nursing Process


Book Description

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.




Nursing Process


Book Description

This innovative text uses concrete examples and hands-on exercises to help students clearly understand and apply the five steps of the nursing process. In each, wellness concepts and independent critical thinking, major emphases of this text, are incorporated into each step of the nursing process.




Critical Thinking in Nursing


Book Description

This text introduces nursing students to the cognitive skills, or thought processes, required of professional nurses. Using a practical approach and a nursing process framework throughout, the book provides a bridge between the theory and the application of these skills. Cognitive skills are presented in a competency-based, clinically oriented format, with emphasis on teaching critical thinking. Chapters end with a workbook section, to provide students with real-world applications of what they have learned. Case studies and checklists throughout aid the student in applying content. The book is written at an accessible reading level.




Nursing Process in Action


Book Description

Here is a user-friendly, step-by-step, workbook-like approach to the five-step Nursing Process, with special emphasis on the most important and difficult step--nursing diagnosis. Creative, helpful exercises allow readers to practice immediately what they've learned about the nursing process. The inclusion of critical thinking, wellness diagnoses, and ethical aspects of each step makes this a unique and important book.




Nursing Process and Critical Thinking


Book Description

From Back Cover: Nursing process and critical thinking uses concrete examples and hands-on exercises to help you understand and apply this fundamental decision-making process. Numerous case studies help develop effective problem-solving and critical thinking skills. Updated! NANDA, NIC, and NOC terminology. New! Online student resources website with additional content, critical thinking questions and answers, NCLEX questions and answers (nursing.pearsonhighered.com). New! Take Away Points summarize key points. New! What do you know questions help students stop and think about what they have read and learned. New! Think about it questions provide an opportunity to reflect on book content and participate in class discussions.




Applying Nursing Process


Book Description

This trusted resource combines the practical guidance students need to understand each phase of the nursing process with an emphasis on critical thinking, focusing on both independent and collaborative responsibilities facing today's nurses. Using straightforward language, abundant examples, and real case scenarios, the book addresses the nurse's role as a caregiver and decision-maker in a range of settings—from clinic to the home, community, research, and acute care arenas. A new focus and design help readers build essential critical thinking and problem solving skills and apply them within the nursing process framework. A companion Website provides a variety of tools such as patient self-assessment tool, clinical decision map, NCLEX� resources, and much more.




Critical Thinking in Nursing


Book Description

A user-friendly, interactive text for beginning students, focusing on critical thinking as it is used with the nursing process, and featuring numerous exercises, checklists, and case studies, plus space for writing answers and reflections. Parts I and II overview and detail the nursing process, and Part III focuses on communicating the thinking and nursing process. Part IV applies concepts in a patient situation. This second edition contains a new chapter on working with patients to design care, and integrates information on nursing interventions and outcomes classification. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR







Critical Thinking TACTICS for Nurses


Book Description

Critical Thinking TACTICS for Nurses: Achieving the IOM Competencies is a reader-friendly guide to performing, learning and evaluating critical thinking in all aspects of nursing care. Award winning authors M. Gaie Rubenfeld and Barbara K. Scheffer draw on their research and expertise in teaching and practice to blend critical thinking components with the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) five core competencies: patient-centered care, interdisciplinary team work, evidence-based practice, informatics, and quality improvement. Issues addressed include critical thinking language and awareness enhancement, the impact of critical thinking on quality care, mentoring the critical thinking of staff and students and designing performance criteria for critical thinking. New to this edition: Significant updates and additional current references to all 5 IOM chapters. New Chapter 10 - Assessing Critical Thinking. New Chapter 11 - Thinking Realities of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. New “stories” from practicing nurses and others.