Contents: Safe, effective care environment: Management of care: Healthcare delivery systems -- Members of interdisciplinary team -- Ethical responsibilities -- Legal responsibilities -- Information technology -- Delegation and supervision -- Nursing process -- Admissions, transfers and discharge -- Safety and infection control: Medical and surgical asepsis -- Infection control -- Client safety -- Home safety -- Ergonomic principles -- Security and disaster plans -- Health promotion: Nursing throughout the lifespan: Health promotion and disease prevention -- Client education -- Infant (birth to 1 year) -- Toddler (1 to 3years) -- Preschooler (3 to 6 years) -- School-age child (6 to 12 years) -- Adolescent (12 to 20 years) -- Young adult (20 to 35 years) -- Middle adult (35 to 65 years) -- Older adult (65 years and older) -- Health assessment: Data collection and general survey -- Vital signs -- head and neck -- Thorax, heart, and abdomen -- Integumentary and peripheral vascular systems -- Musculoskeletal and neurosensory systems -- Psychosocial integrity: Therapeutic communication -- Coping -- Self-concept and sexuality -- Cultural and spiritual nursing care -- Grief, loss, and palliative care -- Physiological integrity: Basic care and comfort: Hygiene -- Rest and sleep -- Nutrition and oral hydration -- Mobility and immobility -- Pain management -- Complementary and alternative therapies -- Bowel elimination -- Urinary elimination -- Sensory perception -- Pharmacological and parental therapies: Pharmacokinetics and routes of administration -- Safe medication administration and error reduction -- Dosage calculation -- Intravenous therapy -- Adverse effects, interactions, and contraindications -- Individual considerations of medication administration -- Reduction of risk potential: Specimen collection for glucose monitoring -- Respiratory management -- Nasogastric intubation and enteral feedings -- Physiological adaptation: Pressure ulcers, wounds, and wound management -- Fluid and electrolyte imbalances -- Cardiac arrest, CPR, and defibrillation.