Kozier & Erb's fundamentals of nursing : concepts, process, and practice / Audrey Berman [and others]

Barbara Kozier's name appears first on earlier edition under the title: Fundamentals of nursing

Includes bibliographical references and index

About the authors -- Preface -- Contributors -- Thank you -- Special features -- unit 1. The Nature of nursing -- ch. 1. Historical and contemporary nursing practice -- ch. 2. Nursing education, research, and evidence-based practice -- ch. 3. Nursing theories and conceptual frameworks -- ch. 4. Legal aspects of nursing -- ch. 5. Values, ethics, and advocacy -- unit 2. Contemporary health care -- ch. 6. Health care delivery systems -- ch. 7. Community nursing and care continuity -- ch. 8. Home care -- ch. 9. Nursing informatics -- unit 3. The nursing process -- ch. 10. Critical thinking and the nursing process -- ch. 11. Assessing -- ch. 12. Diagnosing -- ch. 13. Planning -- ch. 14. Implementing and evaluating -- ch. 15. Documenting and reporting -- unit 4. Health beliefs and practices -- ch. 16. Health promotion -- ch. 17. Health, wellness, and illness -- ch. 18. Culture and heritage -- ch. 19. Complementary and alternative healing modalities -- unit 5. Life span development -- ch. 20. Concepts of growth and development -- ch. 21. Promoting health from conception through adolescence -- ch. 22. Promoting health in young and middle-aged adults -- ch. 23. Promoting health in elders -- ch. 24. Promoting family health

unit 6. Integral aspects of nursing -- ch. 25. Caring -- ch. 26. Communicating -- ch. 27. Teaching -- ch. 28. Leading, managing, and delegating -- unit 7. Assessing health -- ch. 29. Vital signs -- ch. 30. Health assessment -- unit 8. Asepsis -- ch. 32. Safety -- ch. 33. Hygiene -- ch. 34. Diagnostic testing -- ch. 35. Medications -- ch. 36. Skin integrity and wound care -- ch. 37. Perioperative nursing -- unit 9. Promoting psychosocial health -- ch. 38. Sensory perception -- ch. 39. Self-concept -- ch. 40. Sexuality -- ch. 41. Spirituality -- ch. 42. Stress and coping -- ch. 43. Loss, grieving, and death -- unit 10. Promoting physiologic health -- ch. 44. Activity and exercise -- ch. 45. Sleep -- ch. 46. Pain management -- ch. 47. Nutrition -- ch. 48. Urinary elimination -- ch. 49. Fecal elimination -- ch. 50. Oxygenation -- ch. 51. Circulation -- ch. 52. Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance -- Appendix A : Answers to anatomy & physiology review, critical thinking possibilities, and answers to test your knowledge -- Appendix B : Measurement scales used in NOC -- Appendix C : 2007-2007 NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses -- Glossary -- Index

We are pleased to bring you the 8th edition of a book that has been the foundational nursing textbook for generations of nurses. What is now considered fundamental to the practice of nursing was unimaginable to those nurses who practiced during the years of the first edition. Although the language and devices you will see in this edition differ immensely from those used by nurses before us and before you, the systematic nature of gathering data to determine health challenges and designing, implementing, and evaluating care, has not changed