Potter & Perry's Fundamentals of Nursing - Australian Version - eBook, 5th Edition

• The importance of safe and effective person-centred care continues to feature throughout, with a new emphasis on professional responsibility and accountability
• Clinical examples and Critical reflection points highlight how the quality of nursing care, knowledge and skills can impact people’s lives and mean the difference between recovery and ongoing illness and complications
• Additional resources on evolve, including:
  
  eBook on VitalSource
  Resources for Instructors
  - Testbank
  - Critical Reflection Points and answers
  - Image collection
  - Tables and boxes collection
  Resources for Students and Instructors
  - Essentials of Care chapter
  - 37 Clinical Skills videos (including 10 NEW)
  - Clinical Cases: Fundamentals of Nursing Case Studies
  - Weblinks

• Four new chapters:
  - Creating a proactive and dynamic nursing profession
  - Building nursing practice: the Fundamentals of Care Framework
  - Engaging patients and keeping them safe
  - Documenting, retrieving and using information to inform practice
• A new clinical reasoning framework to support systematic and critical reflection on approaches to practice
• Emphasis on the importance of self-reflection and awareness for delivering quality care across diverse populations
• Aligned to the Registered Nurse Standards for Practice 2016 (Australia) and Competencies for Registered Nurses 2007 (New Zealand)
• 75 Clinical Skills link applied nursing skills to effective clinical practice.

PART 1 - Evolving nursing: nursing and the healthcare environment

Chapter 1 - Creating a proactive and dyanmic nursing profession NEW!
Chapter 2 - Building nursing practice: the Fundamentals of Care Framework NEW!
Chapter 3 - Engaging patients and keeping them safe NEW!

PART 2 - Framing nursing: critical processes in nursing practice

Chapter 4 - Developing clinical reasoning for nursing practice
Chapter 5 - Gathering relevant information and making decisions
Chapter 6 - Setting priorities, taking action and evaluating outcomes
Chapter 7 - Developing and using nursing knowledge

PART 3 - Positioning nursing: professional responsibility and accountability for safe and effective care

Chapter 8 - Coordinating care and teamwork
Chapter 9 - Examining the ethical practice of nursing
Chapter 10 - Practising nursing within Australian regulatory frameworks
Chapter 11 - Acting in accordance with New Zealand regulatory frameworks
Chapter 12 - Placing communication at the centre of person-centred care
Chapter 13 - Documenting, retrieving and using information to inform practice

PART 4 - Adapting nursing: people, context and culture

Chapter 14 - Understanding and applying cultural safety: philosophy and practice of a social determinants approach
Chapter 15 - Engaging in family-centred care
Chapter 16 - Considering the developmental context from conception to adolescence
Chapter 17 - Considering the developmental context of youth and adults
Chapter 18 - Working with older people
Chapter 19 - Considering the person with disability

PART 5 - Relating nursing: human basis of nursing practice

Chapter 20 - Self-identity: life as a journey of self-discovery
Chapter 21 - Understanding sexuality and sexual health
Chapter 22 - Working with dying, death and grief

PART 6 - Practising nursing: scientific basis of nursing practice

Chapter 23 - The vital signs: using a primary survey approach for patient assessment
Chapter 24 - Undertaking a focused assessment: physical assessment of body systems
Chapter 25 - Infection control
Chapter 26 - Skin integrity and wound care
Chapter 27 - Medication therapy

PART 7 - Focusing nursing: basic human needs

Chapter 28 - Promoting mobility
Chapter 29 - Hygiene
Chapter 30 - Fostering sleep
Chapter 31 - Nutrition
Chapter 32 - Bowel elimination
Chapter 33 - Urinary elimination
Chapter 34 - Fluid, electrolyte and acid-base balance
Chapter 35 - Oxygenation
Chapter 36 - Managing pain
Chapter 37 - Managing stress and adaptation

PART 8 - Situating nursing: contexts of care

Chapter 38 - Focusing on community-based care: the older person
Chapter 39 - Working in acute care environments
Chapter 40 - Meeting the mental health needs of individuals and their carers
Chapter 41 - Caring for the cancer survivor