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Fundamentals of Nursing: Human Health and Function, 8th Edition, helps you efficiently foster the critical thinking and clinical communication skills students need to succeed throughout the nursing curriculum and today's challenging clinical settings. This big-picture... Read Full Overview

An introduction to the basic concepts, theory and skills of nursing. Nursing procedures from a variety of clinical settings are detailed along with client perspectives. Community-based learning, critical thinking and outcone identification are some of the issues discussed.

This comprehensive text introduces the broad range of the discipline of nursing, including theory, the nursing process, and step-by-step procedures. The Fifth Edition maintains its emphasis on both wellness/health and human function as frameworks for nursing practice. The text... Read Full Overview