Get the review and practice you need to master the role of today's nurse! With chapters corresponding to the chapters in Yoost's Fundamentals of Nursing, 3rd Edition, this study guide provides a variety of exercises and activities to reinforce your understanding of nursing concepts and skills. Chapter reviews use engaging activities to make learning more meaningful, and review questions help you apply concepts to the practice setting. Now with new Next Generation NCLEX (R)-style practice questions, this study guide also prepares you for success on classroom and NCLEX examinations. Chapter review questions include multiple-choice, matching, true/false, and image labeling questions, testing your comprehension of nursing fundamentals and making learning more fun. Answers and detailed rationales for all of the questions are included in the back of the study guide. Skills performance checklists on the Evolve website are completely updated to match the latest versions of nursing skills, and are both interactive and printable. NEW! Next Generation NCLEX (R)-style practice questions in clinical chapters help you develop skills in clinical judgment. NEW! Updated content reflects changes to the Fundamentals of Nursing, 3rd Edition textbook. NEW! Preliminary Readings refer you back to the related chapter in the textbook. NEW! Open-ended questions provide questions, activities, and guidance to make study group time more productive.

Make this clinical companion your best friend at the point of care! When you need hard-to-remember clinical information, rely on Yoost's Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing, 3rd Edition for quick access to thousands of facts, lab values, assessment guidelines, abbreviations with definitions, and more. Bulleted lists and summary tables make it easy to look up the details essential to providing safe, patient-centered care. This handbook is more than just a condensed version of the text - it's a portable tool that will enhance your clinical judgment. It's an indispensable nursing reference for class, lab, and clinicals! Thousands of basic facts and figures, standard lab values, care guidelines and more provide the information frequently needed in a reference for clinical practice. Concise outlines, bulleted lists, and summary tables allow easy, at-a-glance lookup and review. Medical, Nursing, and Health Professions Terminology chapter acts as a quick medical terminology refresher and helps you understand clinical terms as they are encountered. Detailed information on medication administration includes drug dosage calculations, conversions, IV infusions, and more, helping you prevent medication errors and ensuring safe practice. Chapters on body system assessment help you learn a systematic and thorough approach to health assessment. Guidelines for pressure ulcer prevention and care can be referenced quickly while on the job. Compact, portable size makes this handbook easy to carry during clinical practice. NEW! Updated content reflects the latest care standards throughout the Fundamentals of Nursing, 3rd Edition text. NEW! Clinical Judgment chapter helps you learn how to develop and apply clinical judgment skills in the clinical setting.

Build a solid foundation in the knowledge and skills you need to succeed as a nurse! Designed specifically for today's students, Fundamentals of Nursing, 3rd Edition takes a fresh, conversational approach that is friendlier than typical books on nursing fundamentals. To make understanding easier, the book introduces basic information first and then follows with progressively more nuanced and complex nursing concepts. Practical exercises provide a unique kind of active learning, allowing you to apply concepts to actual patient care. Even care planning is different, as authors Barbara L. Yoost and Lynne R. Crawford are pioneers of conceptual care mapping - a visual, holistic way of making clinical judgments and planning patient care. Essentially, this text offers an easier, fundamentally different way to learn the nursing profession! UNIQUE! Building-block approach uses review questions and exam questions tied to learning objectives, starting at lower Bloom's taxonomy levels in the early chapters and building to more complex levels as you acquire more knowledge. UNIQUE! Warm, friendly writing style introduces concepts and terms more slowly, giving you time to practice, think critically, and gain mastery. Case studies open each chapter with real-world scenarios, helping you build analytical, critical thinking, and clinical judgment skills. Coverage of complementary therapies is integrated throughout the text, reflecting changes to the NCLEX® exam. Emphasis on assignment and delegation describes the differences between the two skills, and how and when they are appropriate for an RN. UNIQUE! Objective-driven approach presents clearly defined, numbered learning objectives that coordinate with all content and then wrap up with Objective Summaries. UNIQUE! Active learning activities help you apply chapter content to broader nursing concepts and realistic patient scenarios. UNIQUE! Conceptual care mapping is used throughout the text in conjunction with the Conceptual Care Map creator to help you develop clinical judgment and plans of care. Boxed features cover the areas of interprofessional collaboration and delegation, ethical and legal practice, patient education and healthy literacy, health assessment questions, diversity considerations, evidence-based practice and informatics, home care considerations, QSEN, and safe practice alerts. NEW! Clinical Judgment in Nursing chapter introduces the concept of clinical judgment and the six NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model Skills. NEW! Clinical judgment steps are integrated within the nursing process.

Learn to prioritize patient care quickly and effectively! Conceptual Care Mapping: Case Studies for Improving Communication, Collaboration, and Care uses a 'two books in one' approach to guide you through the most important aspects of patient care and critical thinking. The first section explores the title's three C's of care, communication, and collaboration within the healthcare team. The second section includes case studies that progress from simple clinical conditions to the more complex. Conceptual Care Mapping provides the tools you need to understand and implement effective patient care plans. With mapping practice both online and in the text, this unique book is the ideal resource for any first-year nursing student! Unique! Conceptual Care Mapping guides your care - using templates and an online, interactive conceptual care map creator - from the author team who developed this new method of organizing care information. Unique! 30 case studies focus on the patients you are most likely to see in clinical experience as a first-year student - and are organized from simple to complex, guiding you through prioritization and teaching you to think critically. Unique! Elsevier's Conceptual Care Map (CCM) creator helps you create, update, manage, and submit care maps quickly and effectively. Unique! Answers and completed care maps are provided for selected cases to reinforce what you've learned. Unique! Improving Patient Care section not only provides an overview of care mapping, but also focuses on three key elements of patient care: care, communication (both with other healthcare professionals and with patients), and collaboration. Unique! Interprofessional Education (IPE) and collaboration are key elements in all of the case studies, helping you understand how you will work within the larger healthcare team. Full-color design makes it easier to match up your online care mapping with content in the text.