Textbook of Basic Nursing

By Mary T. Kowalski and Caroline Bunker Rosdahl

Book Overview

Provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to practice nursing safely as LPN/LVNs.

Fully updated to reflect current medical and nursing practice, this Eleventh Edition of Textbook of Basic Nursing covers all areas of the curriculum, including Anatomy & Physiology, Fundamentals, Skills, Adult Health, Growth and Development, Mental Health, Maternity and Pediatrics, and Geriatric Considerations. Based on the NCLEX-PN framework, this engaging and comprehensive text provides everything students need to succeed, including short chapters with easy-to-understand content, striking photos and illustrations that bring the content to life, and a wide range of practice-oriented, mastery-focused learning tools both in the book and online, and an available hands-on workbook. Key benefits include: Concept Mastery Alerts use data from PrepU quizzing to highlight common misconceptions and difficult-to-understand material.Nursing Alert s ensure that students obtain the critical information they need to safely practice nursing as LPN/LVNs and succeed on the NCLEX-PN.NCLEX Alert s highlight critical NCLEX-relevant content in each key area.In Practice: Nursing Care Plan s present a case study using NANDA terminology and the Nursing Process to illustrate how to develop a care plan.Special Considerations highlight key culture, lifespan, homecare, or nutrition information.In Practice: Nursing Procedures present step-by-step instructions with full-color illustrations and rationales.In Practice: Nursing Care Guidelines contain summaries of important concepts, teaching, skills performance, or nursing considerations.In Practice: Educating the Client boxes highlight important teaching concepts.In Practice: Data Gathering in Nursing summarizes the key information needed in gathering data for nursing observations.In Practice: Nursing Process boxes use the steps of the nursing process to guide the LPN/LVN in effective data collection.In Practice: Important Medications boxes summarize common medications used in treating specific conditions, diseases, and disorders.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469894203
• ISBN13: 9781469894201
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: LWW
• Length: 2024 Pages
• Weight: 9.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 8.7" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent In-Depth Textbook!

This textbook is huge and contains enormous amounts of valuable information. The depth, illustrations and graphics are excellent. Even if this is not the assigned textbook for your classroom, I advise student PNs to invest in this excellent textbook!

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I had an 8th edition of this book. This text is more thorough and illustrative. I would highly recommend this edition to anyone interested in a basic nursing textbook. This text includes everything that I need for a review of nursing fundamentals.

very helpful to me

very good book on nursing assessments & diagnosis information