Nursing: A Human Needs Approach

Developed for the first-year nursing student, this comprehensive text emphasizes critical thinking and decision-making by focusing on nursing concepts, principles, and rationale that underlie nursing practice. Written in a clear, readable style, this informative text provides a strong theoretical underpinning and helps teach the student how to apply the nursing process in clinical nursing practice. This fifth edition includes stronger nursing process format, increased number of case studies and nursing care plans, new pedagogy including Key Points and Critical Thinking Activities, and new displays for Nursing Issues and Trends, Nursing Research, Nursing Diagnosis and Potential Complications. New chapters in this edition include Diagnostic Testing, Pharmacotherapeutics, and The Experience of Surgery.