E-Book Overview
Numerous updates and a state-of-the-art ancillary package make the Tenth Edition of this best-selling textbook the most up-to-date book of its kind. New chapters include: End-of-Life Care, Genetics Perspectives in Nursing Practice, and Management of Patients Affected by Terrorism, Mass Casualty, and Disaster. New features include: Concept Maps relating NANDA diagnoses with NIC and NOC classification systems; boxed charts alerting nurses to genetics perspectives in practice; and new, specialized content on elderly patients and those with disabilities. A free CD-ROM in the text includes over 3,500 general student-study questions, 500 unit review questions, 3-dimensional animations that illustrate disease processes, and interactive clinical simulations covering asthma and congestive heart failure. For more information, visit connection.LWW.com/go/smeltzer.
E-Book Content
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Unit
Contents
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Basic Concepts in Nursing Practice
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1 Health Care Delivery and Nursing Practice
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Nursing Defined 5 The Patient/Client: Consumer of Nursing and Health Care Health Care in Transition 6
HEALTH, WELLNESS, AND HEALTH PROMOTION
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Ethics Versus Morality 28 Ethics Theories 29 Approaches to Ethics 29 Moral Situations 30 Types of Ethical Problems in Nursing
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PREVENTIVE ETHICS Advance Directives
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Team Nursing 15 Primary Nursing 15 Community-Based Nursing and Community Health–Public Health Nursing 16
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HEALTH EDUCATION TODAY
2 Community-Based Nursing Practice
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The Purpose of Health Education
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THE GROWING NEED FOR COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH CARE 20
HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY-BASED NURSING 21 DISCHARGE PLANNING FOR HOME CARE 22 COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND REFERRALS 22 PREPARING FOR A HOME V