Includes Index and glossary.

Content : Unit I: Fundamentals of nursing practice : Introduction to nursing -- Theory, research and evidence-based practice -- Health, illness and disparities -- Health of the individual, family and community -- Cultural diversity -- Values, ethics, and advocacy -- Legal dimensions of nursing -- Practice -- Unit II: Health care delivery -- The health care delivery system -- Care coordination and continuity in health -- Care setting and the community -- Unit III : Pearson-centered care and the nursing process: Blended competencies, clinical reasoning and processes of person-centered care -- Assessing -- Diagnosing -- Outcome identification and planning -- Implementing -- Evaluation -- Documenting ,reporting,conferring and using informatics -- Unit IV: Promoting health across the lifespan: Developmental concepts -- Conception through young adult -- The aging adult -- Unit V: Roles basic to nursing care: Communicator -- Teacher and counselor -- Nurse leader, manager, and care coordinator -- Unit VI: Actions basic to nursing care: Asepsis and infection control -- Vital signs -- Health assessment -- Safety, security and emergency preparedness -- Complementary and alternative therapies --Medications -- Perioperative nursing -- Unit VII: Promoting healthy physiologic responses: Hygiene -- Skin integrity and wound care -- Activity -- Rest and sleep -- Comfort and pain management -- Nutrition -- Urinary elimination -- Bowel elimination -- Oxygenation and perfusion -- Fluid,electrolyte, and acid-base balance -- Unit VIII: Promoting healthy physiologic responses: Self-concept -- Stress and adaptation -- Loss, grief and dying -- Sensory functioning -- Sexuality -- Spirituality.