Publisher's Synopsis
To find the clinical facts you need to know, make this pocket guide your constant companion! Clinical Companion to Fundamentals of Nursing, 10th Edition includes the hard-to-remember facts, lab values, and abbreviations that are essential to providing optimal nursing care. Organized by the major concepts and principles of your nursing fundamentals course, this reference features a quick-access format with summary tables and bulleted lists. The Clinical Companion makes retrieving, reviewing, and retaining clinical facts and figures easier than ever!
- Detailed information on medications helps to prevent medication errors and ensure safe practice, with topics including dosage calculations, compatibilities, conversions, and administration.
- At-a-glance content is provided in outline, list, and tabular formats for easy lookup and review.
- Basic facts and figures, standard values, care guidelines and more provide the background frequently needed in a reference for clinical practice.
- Concise, pocket-sized format ensures portability for use in the clinical setting.
- NEW Vital Signs chapter contains everything a new student needs to know to quickly and accurately obtain vital signs.
- NEW Physical Assessment chapter helps students develop a systematic and thorough approach to health assessment.
- NEW! Interprofessional Collaboration and Delegation chapter explains the role of the nurse within the larger healthcare team.
- NEW! Updated pressure injury information includes prevention and care guidelines.
- NEW! Medical, Nursing, and Health Professions Terminology chapter acts as a quick medical terminology refresher and helps students understand clinical terms as they are encountered.
