Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process, and Practice (Fundamentals of Nursing (Kozier))

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It’s your complete guide to nursing — from basic concepts to essential skills! Fundamentals of Nursing, 9th Edition prepares you to succeed as a nurse by providing a solid foundation in critical thinking, evidence-based practice, nursing theory, and safe clinical care in all settings. With illustrated, step-by-step guidelines, this book makes it easy to learn important skills and procedures. Care plans are presented within a nursing process framework, and case studies show how to apply concepts to nursing practice. From an expert author team led by Patricia Potter and Anne Griffin Perry, this bestselling nursing textbook helps you develop the understanding and clinical reasoning you need to provide excellent patient care. Each video is taught by a world-class expert in nursing Listen to them at increased speeds while you are working out or at other times so that you start to digest the information you need to pass your exams.

Your documentation becomes a part of your patients medical history. It is incredibly important that you learn and practice the correct documentation and reporting throughout your nursing degrees and years in practice after you graduate.

Your Nursing Fundamentals will give you a baseline of what nursing practice entails. And to pass it, you’ll likely need to put in plenty of study hours. Often called a mind-palace, using a location to “store” information can be an incredible way to help you retain information and access it when needed for a test. Sensory Memory With the help of this module, you will be able to prepare for both upcoming tests and the real-world tests you will face every day at work. Module 10 – Oxygenation

Evaluation: The final step in the nursing process is evaluation. This involves assessing the effectiveness of the care plan and making necessary adjustments. It ensures that the care provided is continuously aligned with the patient's evolving needs. Part 3 Positioning nursing: professional responsibility and accountability for safe and effective careThe second skills cluster to be discussed is organisational aspects of care. This skills cluster entails nurses to assess, plan, implement and evaluate (APIE) holistic care provided to the patient in relation to the individual’s needs. This can be done by observing the patient, reviewing records and referrals, collecting data and working as part of a multidisciplinary tea (MDT). In addition, it also requires al nurses to safeguard, protect and support their patients who are in vulnerable situations. This is done by working alongside with other healthcare professionals as a MDT to ensure all service users feel safe and protected in the environment (Bloomfield and Pegram, 2015). The importance of this cluster is to look at service users as a whole rather than a condition or a disease, it is vital to take into account the individual’s social, emotional, physical, psychological, spiritual and economic needs. Providing holistic care allows nurses to provide the best care possible and ensure that all of the patients’ needs are met (Perkins, 2011). The fourth skills cluster is nutrition and fluid management. Nurses are expected to have a good understanding on the skills required in relation to patient nutrition, this includes dietary and any other factors that contribute to obesity, weight loss, ill health and poor fluid or nutrition intake (NMC, 2007). It is essential that nutrition and fluid management is maintained as it has a big impact on all stages of life including growth and pregnancy. The body needs nutrients to enable cells to carry out processes such as metabolic processes. There are four main food groups that are essential to help maintain nutrition and fluid management these are: protein, fat, carbohydrate and micronutrients (Childs, Coles and Marjoram, 2009).