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| Genre/Form: | Outlines, syllabi, etc |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ramont, Roberta Pavy. Comprehensive nursing care. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005 (OCoLC)631632255 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Roberta Pavy Ramont; Dolores Maldonado Niedringhaus; Mary Ann Towle |
| ISBN: | 0130990884 9780130990884 |
| OCLC Number: | 60245535 |
| Description: | xxxv, 1419 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| Details: | System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Windows 98 or newer.; System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Macintosh 9.X and OSX. |
| Contents: | PART I: FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING: UNIT 1: THE NATURE OF NURSING: Succeeding as a nursing student -- Promoting culturally proficient care -- Understanding legal and ethical issues -- Critical thinking and nursing theories -- Practical and vocational nurses and the nursing process -- UNIT 2: INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: Client communication -- Health care delivery systems -- Safety and infection control -- Client teaching -- Admission, transfer, and discharge -- Documentation -- UNIT III: PROMOTING PHYSIOLOGIC HEALTH: Health assessment -- Hygiene -- Vital signs and pain management -- Activity, rest, and sleep -- Nutritiion, fluids, and electrolytes, and acid-base balance -- Medication administration -- UNIT IV: PROMOTING PSYCHOSOCIAL HEALTH: Theorists, theories, and therapies -- Life-span development and family systems -- Psychosocial nursing of the physically ill client -- PART II: ADULT HEALTH CARE AND GERONTOLOGY: UNIT V: MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING CARE: Nursing care of clients having surgery -- Clients with integumentary system disorders -- Clients with musculoskeletal system disorders -- Clients with respiratory system disorders -- Clients with cardiovascular system disorders -- Clients with hematopoietic and lymphatic system disorders -- Clients with neurosensory system disorders -- Clients with gastrointestinal system disorders -- Clients with endocrine system disorders -- Clients with renal or male reproductive system disorders -- Clients with sexually transmitted infections -- UNIT VI: GERONTOLOGY AND SPECIAL NEEDS: Caring for elderly clients -- Caring for chronically or terminally ill clients -- Caring for clients with cancer -- Caring for clients with immune system disorders -- Emergency room and urgent care nursing -- PART III: MENTAL HEALTH NURSING: UNIT VII: MENTAL HEALTH NURSING CARE: Mental health disorders -- Substance abuse and eating disorders -- PART IV: WOMEN'S HEALTH AND MATERNAL-NEWBORN NURSING: UNIT VIII: WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE AND MATERNAL-NEWBORN NURSING: Clients with female reproductive system disorders -- Care of pregnant women -- Care of women during labor and delivery -- Care of postpartum women -- Care of the neonate -- PART V: PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT NURSING: UNIT IX: PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT NURSING CARE: Care of the young child -- Care of the older child -- Care of the adolescent -- PART VI: TRANSITION FROM STUDENT TO FROFESSIONAL NURSE: UNIT X: TRANSITION FROM STUDENT TO NURSE: Preparing to take the licensure exam -- Finding that first job -- Leadership and professional development -- Appendices. |
| Responsibility: | Roberta Pavy Ramont, Dolores Maldonado Niedringhaus, Mary Ann Towle. |
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