Foundations of Nursing Book

Part of the popular LPN Threads series, Foundations of Nursing provides all of the fundamentals content and skills needed to educate LPN/LVNs. Designed to be used in conjunction with Adult Health Nursing, together these two full-color texts provide complete coverage of all of the content needed in an LPN/LVN curriculum in a convenient multi-volume set. Foundations of Nursing provides coverage of fundamentals and skills, maternal and neonatal, pediatric, geriatric, mental health, and community content. Adult Health Nursing provides coverage of anatomy & physiology and medical-surgical content. These textbooks will now be available separately, as a package, or as a single-volume combined text. Rely on these tried-and-true texts to ensure your students success both in the classroom and in practice! * Nursing Process is applied to the discussion of disorders and appears in a summary form at the end of each chapter. * Over 100 skills are presented in a step-by-step format with clearly defined nursing actions and rationales. * Nursing Care Plans, presented in a case-study format, emphasize patient goals and outcomes and include Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each care plan. The answers are included in the Instructor?s Resource Manual. * Nursing Diagnosis boxes, screened and highlighted in the text, include nursing diagnoses for specific disorders paired with the appropriate nursing interventions. * Mathematics review in Chapter 23 provides full coverage of basic arithmetic skills prior to discussion of medication administration. * Patient Teaching boxes include post-hospital discharge guidelines and disease prevention instructions with a strong focus on three-way communication among the nurse, patient, and family members. * CultRead More