Table of Contents: UNIT 1: NURSING AND THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
1. The Health Care System and Contemporary Nursing
2. Clinical Decision-Making and Evidence Based Practice, Research, and Technology
3. Health Education & Promotion
4. Culturally Sensitive Care
5. Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Care (including chemical dependency)
6. Nursing of Adults across the Lifespan
7. Palliative Care
UNIT 2: SUPPORTIVE PATIENT CARE
8. Health assessment
9. Genetics and the multiple determinants of health
10. Stress, coping, and adaptation
11. Inflammation and infection management
12. Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base imbalances
13. Infusion therapy
14. Complementary and alternative therapies
15. Cancer Management
16. Pain management
17. Pharmacology: Nursing Management
Unit 3: SETTINGS FOR NURSING CARE
18. Health care agencies
19. Critical Care
UNIT 4: PERIOPERATIVE PATIENT CARE
20. Preoperative Nursing Management
21. Intraoperative Nursing Management
22. Postoperative Nursing Management
UNIT 5: Alterations in Cardiovascular and Hematologic Function
23. Assessment of Cardiovascular and Hematologic Function
24. Coronary Artery Dysfunction: Nursing Management
25. Heart Failure and Inflammatory Dysfunction: Nursing Management
26. Arrhythmias: Nursing Management
27. Vascular Dysfunction: Nursing Management
28. Hypertension : Nursing Management
29. Hematologic Dysfunction: Nursing Management
UNIT 6: Alterations in Respiratory Function
30. Assessment of Respiratory function
31. Upper Airway Dysfunction: Nursing Management
32. Lower Airway Dysfunction: Nursing Management
33. Obstructive Pulmonary Disease : Nursing Management |
