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Overview
Fundamentals of Nursing, Australian and New Zealand 3rd edition, provides comprehensive coverage of fundamental nursing concepts, skills and standards of practice that challenges introductory nursing students to learn and apply critical thinking skills for culturally diverse populations in a variety of clinical environments.
This book highlights the core themes of nursing, including nurse, person, health and environment and is based on the concepts of research and evidence-based practice. With up-to-date coverage of the Registered Nurse Standards of Practice (2016) and key pedagogical features such as our unique ‘Spotlight on critical thinking' questions, this text challenges students to assess their own nursing practice and apply the concepts they learn in class to real-life clinical settings. Fundamentals of Nursing presents in-depth material in a clear, concise manner using language that is easy to read and has good coverage of topics such as rural and remote nursing and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. This text is complemented by the bestselling Tollefson, Clinical Psychomotor Skills: Assessment Tools for Nursing, which covers skills and procedures. A value pack of these two texts is available.
Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform. Learn more about the online tools au.cengage.com/mindtap .
Resources for instructors include Instructor’s Guide, PowerPoints, Test Bank, case database and videos.
- A NEW focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, with a ground-up chapter written in a culturally safe way, introduces nursing students to respectful care of First Nations people. Cultural safety is a life-long learning process, modelled on respect, communication, safety and quality, reflection and advocacy, and is a core component of undergraduate nursing degrees following CATSINaM'S Nursing and Midwifery Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework, 2018 (Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives)
- NEW content has been included on elder care, as an aging population requires specific approaches in care; additional content has been added on bariatric care, and authors have included state-of-the art information about emerging trends in digital health care and documentation
- NEW concept maps and practical activities to accompany the Nursing Care Plans in Units 5 and 6
- 'Respecting our differences' and 'Culturally safe care' boxes encourage and challenge students to consider approaches to respectful care for people who may differ from themselves in diverse areas such as culture, race, gender, age or developmental level
- Content is clearly linked to NMBA Standards for Practice 2016, ensuring students are compliant with all current curriculum and clinical practices
- Cengage's core learning design principles ensure a pedagogical approach that is authentic, inclusive, intentional and personalised. This includes ‘Evidence-based practice’ boxes to focus attention on the importance of research in everyday clinical nursing; ‘Safety first’ boxes that identify health and safety issues and appropriate responses to critical situations; ‘Nursing care plans’ with concept maps to guide students through the details of an individual person’s case and the process of planning care, performing interventions and evaluating outcomes. These are accompanied by authentic practical activities that students will encounter daily in clinical practice. ‘Nursing checklists’ include important items to remember and revise, including things to consider during and after clinical decision making processes, and things to consider when relaying critical information in relation to a person's health care
- End-of-chapter learning features include summaries, review questions and spotlight on critical thinking so that students can consolidate and practise what they have learnt in the chapter
- Links to clinical skills videos for students and lecturers, matching Clinical Psychomotor Skills, 8e
- Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform - the personalised eLearning solution. MindTap is a flexible and easy-to-use platform that helps build student confidence and gives you a clear picture of their progress. MindTap for DeLaune’s Fundamentals of Nursing is full of innovative resources to support critical thinking, and help your students move from memorisation to mastery! Includes: DeLaune’s Fundamentals of Nursing, 3e eBook; heart and lung sounds; videos and animations; 'What do you think?' polling questions; cases and case quizzes. MindTap is a premium purchasable eLearning tool. Contact your Cengage learning consultant to find out how MindTap can transform your course
- Instructor Website. Your #1 resource for your course. This tailored collection of teaching tools includes downloadable PowerPointlecture slides,Instructor’s Manual, and Test Bank with customisable questions for quizzes and assessments. The Instructor’s Manual is packed with content that helps you set up and administer your class: New to this edition are solutions to practical Nursing Care Plan activities. Log in or request an account to access instructor resources at au.cengage.com/instructor/account for Australia or nz.cengage.com/instructor/account for New Zealand
1. Evolution of nursing theory and education
2. Research and evidence-based practice
3. Health care delivery
UNIT 2: Nursing process: the standard of care
4. Critical thinking, decision making, and nursing process
5. Assessment
6. Problem identification
7. Planning
8. Implementation
9. Evaluation
UNIT 3: Professional accountability
10. Leadership and delegation
11. Legal and ethical responsibilities
12. Documentation and informatics
UNIT 4: Promoting client health
13. Nursing, healing, and caring
14. Communication
15. Health and wellness promotion
16. Family and community health
17. The life cycle
18. Paediatric patients
19. The older adult
20. Palliative care
21. Cultural diversity
22. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
23. Rural and remote health
24. Health care education
UNIT 5: Responding to basic psychosocial needs
25. Self-concept
26. Stress, anxiety, adaptation, and change
27. Spirituality
28. Loss and grief
29. Mental health
UNIT 6: Responding to basic physiological needs
30. Vital signs
31. Physical assessment
32. Safety, infection control and hygiene
33. Medication administration
34. Traditional and complementary therapies
35. Oxygenation
36. Fluids and electrolytes
37. Nutrition
38. Pain management, comfort and sleep
39. Mobility
40. Skin integrity and wound healing
41. Sensation, perception and cognition
42. Elimination
43. Perioperative nursing care
Cengage provides a range of supplements that are updated in coordination with the main title selection. For more information about these supplements, contact your Learning Consultant.
FOR STUDENTS
MindTap for DeLaune's Fundamentals of Nursing, 6-term access
ISBN: 9780170473620
Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform - the personalised eLearning solution.
MindTap is a flexible and easy-to-use platform that helps build student confidence and gives you a clear picture of their progress. We partner with you to ease the transition to digital – we’re with you every step of the way.
MindTap for DeLaune’s Fundamentals of Nursing is full of innovative resources to support critical thinking, and help your students move from memorisation to mastery! Includes:
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- DeLaune’s Fundamentals of Nursing eBook
- Heart and lung sounds
- Videos and animations
- What do you think? polling questions
- Cases and case quizzes
MindTap is a premium purchasable eLearning tool. Contact your Cengage learning consultant to find out how MindTap can transform your course.