Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents : Meeting human needs through the nursing process -- The need to understand the self -- The need adapt to stress -- The need to maintain a state of balance -- Therapuetic interaction -- Understanding the existence of the ill -- Human needs during illness -- Coping with loss other changes -- Historical influence and expanding roles of nurses -- Changing concepts of health,disease,and health care -- Evolving legal and ethical aspects of nursing -- Emerging rights of health care consumers -- Nursing assessment diagnose -- Nursing management : planning,implementing,evaluating,and modifying nursing care -- Nursing and the learning/teaching process -- From conception through childhood years -- From adolescence through adult years -- The experience of dying -- Basic psycho social assessment -- Caring for people undergoing nonsurgical therapies -- Caring for people undergoing surgery -- Caring for people through rehabilitation -- Assessing and promoting a positive health environment -- Infection control: medical asepsis -- Infection control: surgical asepsis -- Applying effective body mechanics prevent injury -- Assessing pulse,respiration,and blood pressure -- Assessing and maintain body temperature -- Meeting awareness needs -- Meeting mobility needs -- Providing physical protection and bodily support -- Meeting hygiene and physical comfort needs -- Meeting rest and sleep needs -- Facilitating relief from pain -- Meeting basic nutritional needs -- Meeting special nutritional needs -- Meeting the need for fluid and electrolyte balance -- Meeting urinary elimination needs -- Meeting bowel elimination needs -- Meeting respiration needs -- Providing immediate life support -- Caring for people requiring airway management -- Caring for people with wounds -- Caring for people requiring heat and cold applications -- Caring for people with urinary catheters -- Caring for people requiring gastrointestinal tubes -- Introduction to principles medication administration -- Administering oral and topical medications -- Administering preventeral medications