Practical and student-friendly, this helpful Study Guide is designed to assist students in mastering the content presented in the text.
<ul>
<li>Tied chapter-by-chapter to the text.</li>
<li>Includes Performance Checklists for all the procedures in the text.</li>
<li>Includes exercises on clinical judgment related to the case studies in the text chapter.</li>
<li>Includes chapter purpose, learning objectives, and a variety of learning exercises including matching, true or false, and fill-in-the-blanks.</li>
<li>Answers to all activities and exercises are included in the back of the book.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Test Yourself sections present a series of NCLEX-style multiple-choice questions to provide practice in test taking and help with preparation for exams.</li>
<li>A multimedia focus, with references to the main text, to the text's EVOLVE website, and to the Virtual Clinical Excursions that accompany this title.</li>
</ul>

Study Guide for Fundamentals of Nursing

Test Preparation

Harkreader PhD RN, Helen

Hogan RN MSN, Mary Ann

Thobaben MS RN PHN APNP FNP, Marshelle

Professional

Saunders

Fundamentals of Nursing, Virtual Clinical Excursions 2.0, and Mosby's Medical Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary Package

Medical Books

MOSBY

Nursing

This convenient, money-saving package is a must-have for nursing students! It includes Harkreader's Fundamentals of Nursing, 2nd edition text and the Study Guide for Fundamentals of Nursing, 2nd edition.

Fundamentals of Nursing - Text and Study Guide Package: Caring and Clinical Judgment

This completely new fundamentalstext was written to prepare students to apply critical thinking skills to an ever-changing landscape of client problems, regardless of the setting of care. Organized by functional health pattern, this comprehensive text features streamlined skills, decision trees, and a FREE CD-ROM. (Includes FREE CD-ROM with interactive tutorials, study questions, and SIMON website at:www.harcourthealth.com/SIMON/Harkreader/)

Fundamentals of Nursing: Caring and Clinical Judgment (Book with CD-ROM)

Book by Harkreader PhD RN, Helen, Hogan RN MSN, Mary Ann, Thobaben MS RN PHN APNP FNP, Marshelle

Study Guide for Harkreader Fundamentals of Nursing: Caring and Clinical Judgment

Fundamentals of Nursing: Caring and Clinical Judgment provides comprehensive coverage of nursing concepts and skills for all RN students. Chapters are organized around application of the nursing process, with special emphasis on critical thinking. Each chapter begins with a case study and an overview of key nursing diagnoses, and presents assessment, planning, interventions, and evaluation within the context of the client in the case study and these diagnoses. Nursing care plans and vignettes that revisit the client in the case study provide critical thinking questions that help students reflect on client problems and explore alternative solutions.
<ul>
<li>Overall organization by Gordon's Functional Health Patterns to help students focus clinical problems on client needs.</li>
<li>UNIQUE! Includes content on topics not dealt with as extensively in other fundamentals texts, such as Vulnerability, The Caregiver Role, The Client with Functional Limitations, and Anxiety.</li>
<li>UNIQUE! Decision Trees show students how to work through health care decisions when differentiating between closely related nursing diagnoses.</li>
<li>Cross-Cultural Care charts, based on the client in the case study, include cultural background information that assists students in providing care to a wide variety of clients.</li>
<li>Streamlined procedures include rationales, estimates of Time to Allow, Delegation Considerations, Equipment Needed, Home Care Considerations, and Age-Related Considerations.</li>
<li>UNIQUE! A Patient's Perspective charts, based on interviews with actual clients and caregivers, give students a "window" into the experience of illness.</li>
<li>UNIQUE! Cost of Care charts introduce beginning students to concepts and issues surrounding healthcare financing.</li>
<li>Clustering Data to Make a Nursing Diagnosis charts present brief patient scenarios and show students how to develop and write appropriate nursing diagnoses.</li>
<li>State of Nursing Research charts summarize several research studies to demonstrate the current state of nursing research in a specific area.</li>
<li>Teaching for Wellness and Teaching for Self-Care charts summarize health-promotion and health-restoration teaching in client-oriented language.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>NIC/NOC incorporated into the Care Plans.</li>
<li>UNIQUE! Considering the Alternatives charts now provide both pro and con viewpoints to give students a broader and more practical perspective on popular alternative and complementary therapies.</li>
<li>Sample Documentation Notes for the client in the chapter case study show students how to effectively document care.</li>
<li>Totally revised Managing Client Care chapter (Chapter 14) describes the organization of the health care environment and nursing units, and discusses basic concepts of leadership and management.</li>
<li>The community as a client is presented in the Vulnerability chapter (Chapter 42) to help students understand the populations served by community health nurses.</li>
<li>The content on rehabilitation is thoroughly updated in the chapter on Functional Limitations (Chapter 43).</li>
<li>The content on intravenous therapy now includes new photos showing step-by-step IV line insertion.</li>
</ul>

Fundamentals of Nursing -- Caring and Clinical Judgement

Dynamic and engaging, this workbook/CD-ROM package for Fundamentals of Nursing, 2nd Ed. guides users through a multi-floor virtual hospital in a hands-on learning experience. The student is actively engaged with the workbook, CD-ROM and parent text throughout each lesson. Each lesson has a core textbook reading assignment and activities based on "visiting" the patients in the hospital. The lessons in the workbook complement the content in the textbook and provide a perfect environment in which students may "practice" what they are learning in the text. To further enhance the lessons, the CD-ROM features built-in testing of clinical knowledge with NCLEX type questions that provide immediate feedback of clinical knowledge, priorities, and communication.
<ul>
<li>The CD-ROM offers users the opportunity to "visit" each patient and access realistic information resources essential for patient care, including: charts, medical administration records, electronic patient records, video streaming of patient dialogue with nurses and other related materials. These resources provide an opportunity for the user to assess and analyze information, make a diagnosis, set priorities and implement and evaluate care.</li>
<li>Requires students to use their critical thinking skills to set priorities for care, collect data, analyze and interpret data, and reach conclusions about complex problems within a health-illness transition.</li>
<li>Encourages active learning and provides opportunities to identify information to collect and process data for evidence-based patient care; work with data entry and retrieval screens; optimize use of available information resources; understand hospital information systems; manage information for decision-making; and maintain and improve core computing skills.</li>
<li>The multi-floor virtual hospital has content on Patient Care, Patient Records, Case Conference, and Clinical Review to engage the user in the subject matter and allow for further explanation.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>In conjunction with the Virtual Clinical Excursions CD-ROM authors: Jay Shiro Tashiro, PhD, RN; Ellen Sullins, PhD; Gina Long, RN, DNSc</li>
<li>Virtual Clinical Excursions is a hybrid CD so it runs on both Macintosh and Windows platforms. </li>
</ul>

Virtual Clinical Excursions to accompany Fundamentals of Nursing

Harkreader, Helen

Saunders, W.B.

Fundamentals of Nursing and Mosby's Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary Revised Package

This convenient, money-saving package is a must-have for nursing students. It includes Harkreader's Fundamentals of Nursing, 2nd edition textbook and Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing &amp; Health Professions, 7th edition.

Fundamentals of Nursing 2e & Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, & Health Professions, 7e Package

The new edition of Fundamentals of Nursing gives you complete coverage of the nursing principles, concepts, and skills that form the foundation of a solid nursing education. This engaging text features streamlined procedures that focus on the essential information you need to know to provide safe and effective care. Each clinical chapter begins with a case study and an overview of key nursing diagnoses, and then assessment, planning, interventions, and evaluation are presented within the context of that case study and those key diagnoses. A new Companion CD provides a variety of activities and review questions to help you master important concepts.
<ul>
<li>Key nursing diagnoses are introduced at the beginning of each clinical chapter and serve as the focus for assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.</li>
<li>Nursing Process Framework for all clinical chapters provides a consistent, logical organization for nursing care.</li>
<li>Case studies introduce a patient in each clinical chapter and revisit that patient's case throughout the chapter, using it as an example in the nursing care plan.</li>
<li>Streamlined procedures help you focus on the most essential information for providing safe care - including key steps with rationales, Time to Allow estimates, delegation considerations, equipment needed, safety issues, and home care and age-related considerations as appropriate.</li>
<li>Cross-Cultural Care boxes, based on the client in the case study, include important cultural background information to help you provide culturally sensitive care.</li>
<li>Nursing Care Plans boxes, tied to the chapter case study, include NANDA diagnoses, NOC Expected Outcomes with indicators, NIC Interventions with selected activities and critical thinking questions.</li>
<li>Comprehensive coverage includes topics not usually covered in other fundamentals texts, such as Vulnerability, The Caregiver Role, The Client with Functional Limitations, and Anxiety.</li>
<li>A Patient's Perspective boxes give you a glimpse into the client's perception of the experience of illness.</li>
<li>Considering the Alternatives boxes provide an overview of alternative and complementary therapies that you might explore with your clients, including advantages and potential risks for each.</li>
<li>Action Alerts highlight situations that require immediate nursing action.</li>
<li>Clustering Data to Make a Nursing Diagnosis tables present brief patient scenarios and illustrate how to develop appropriate nursing diagnoses.</li>
<li>Decision Trees show you how to work through decisions when differentiating between closely related nursing diagnoses.</li>
<li>Teaching for Wellness and Teaching for Self-Care boxes summarize health-promotion and health-restoration teaching in client-oriented language so you can easily communicate key points to your clients.</li>
<li>Clinical chapters are grouped into units that correspond with Gordon's functional health patterns.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Companion CD packaged FREE with the book includes student activities, NCLEX® examination-style review questions, an audio glossary, interactive Body Spectrum anatomy and physiology program, and skills video clips.</li>
<li>NCLEX® examination-style review questions at the end of each chapter help you assess your knowledge of the material.</li>
<li>Evidence-Based Practice boxes highlight research findings and applications for specific clinical problems so you can clearly see how research affects practice.</li>
<li>Safety Issues added to appropriate skills reflect JCAHO's increased focus on safe patient care and prepare students for safe practice.</li>
<li>An expanded unit on Growth &amp; Development includes broader coverage of the older adult to help you understand the unique needs of older clients.</li>
<li>Older Adults boxes emphasize important information necessary for providing appropriate care to this growing patient population.</li>
<li>Case studies include photographs of patients to help bring these clinical situations to life.</li>
<li>Icons in selected skills in the text direct you to the new Evolve® resources or CD Companion, where you can watch relatedvideo clips from Mosby's Nursing Skills Videos.</li>
<li>Skills in the text that are supported by the Nursing Skills Online interactive course direct you to the appropriate NSO lesson number, connecting your textbook to online review and evaluation.</li>
</ul>

Fundamentals of Nursing: Caring and Clinical Judgment

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Harkreader PhD RN, Helen. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Harkreader PhD RN, Helen