Includes references and index.

Contents :The client and health care environment: Nursing today -- The health care delivery system -- Community-based nursing practice -- Theoretical foundations of nursing practice -- Evidence -based practice -- Caring throughout the life span: Health and wellness -- Caring for the cancer survivor -- Caring in nursing practice -- Culture and ethnicity -- Caring for families -- Developmental theories -- Conception through adolescence -- Young to middle adult -- Older adult -- Critical thinking in nursing practice: Critical thinking in nursing practice -- Nursing assessment -- Nursing diagnosis -- Planning nursing care -- Implementing nursing care -- Evaluation -- Managing client care -- Professional standards in nursing practice: Ethics and values -- Legal implications in nursing practice -- Communication -- Client education -- Documentation and informatics -- Psycho-social basics for nursing practice: Self concept -- Sexuality -- Spiritual health -- The experience of loss,death and grief -- Stress and coping -- Scientific basics for nursing practice: Vital signs -- Health assessment and physical examination -- Infection prevention and control medication administration -- Complementary and alternative therapies -- Basic human needs: activity and exercise -- Client safety -- Hygiene -- Oxygenation -- Fluid,electrolyte and acid-base balance -- Sleep -- Pain management -- Nutrition -- Urinary elimination -- Bowel elimination -- Client with special needs: Mobility and immobility -- Skin integrity and wound care -- Sensory alterations -- Care of surgical clients --