Fluids and electrolytes are key subjects in nursing education that contribute to the student nurse's ability to meet the 'Standards of Proficiency of Care Delivery and Care Management': a requirement for entry to the nursing register. This book reviews the fundamentals of fluids and electrolytes in an easy-to-understand way.
Fully adapted for the UK, this text presents essential pharmacology concepts in a streamlined, user-friendly fashion. Organized by body system, it explains the rationale for each drug class' therapeutic actions, contraindications, and adverse effects, using the British National Formulary as its reference guide.
Provides comprehensive coverage of the theoretical foundations of nursing, the nursing process, basic nursing skills, physiological patient care (oxygenation, self-care and hygiene, mobility and exercise, comfort from pain, rest and sleep, skin integrity, nutrition, and urinary and bowel elimination), and the various nursing concepts.
Offers what you need to know to perform competent and safe maternal and neonatal nursing care. This title covers fundamentals, such as fetal development, legal issues, and ethical issues; family planning, including advantages and disadvantages to contraception methods; infertility; and perinatal periods, from conception to labor.
Explores the full mental health nursing care continuum within a flexible, person-centred framework. This title emphasises skilled engagement, collaborative assessment and care-planning, effective therapeutic communication and compassionate, evidence-based interventions.
Covers seventy specific disorders and includes an overview of mental health nursing. This book includes numerous icons that provide tips on patient care, research, cultural considerations, and the news in psychopharmacology. It provides descriptions of the mental health nurse's scope of practice, areas of concern, and the nursing process.
Starting with the nursing process, this book provides the foundations for writing practical care plans, walks students through the care planning process, builds the critical thinking skills needed to individualize care, and offers tips on incorporating evidence-based standards and rationales into nursing interventions.