- Provides about 50 Nursing Skills?including clear step-by-step instructions with close-up photos, illustrations, and rationales.
- Clinical framework guidelines are presented using the 5-Step Nursing Process.
- Nursing Care Plans and Concept Maps helps to connect with patient's medical problem and your plan of care.
- Local photographs and content added to provide regional look and feel.
- Historical background and development of nursing, existing nursing education, and nursing cadre in India.
- Revised and updated details of Indian health care policies and procedures, e.g. Indian National Health Policy 2017, Code of Ethics for Nurses in India, medicolegal issues in health care in India, and biomedical waste management guidelines.
- Health care delivery system in India and role of nurse in primary health care in the existing content.
- Nursing procedures and protocols customized to Indian nursing needs and resources. - Fully compliant to the new curriculum prescribed by the Indian Nursing Council
- Comprehensive presentation of historical background of nursing and health care policies in Indian.
- Primary prevention of communicable diseases like H1N1 and COVID-19
- Two new appendixes: A. Diagnostic testing, and B. First Aid and Emergencies
- New Topics added:
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Universal Immunization Program, and Biomedical Waste Management regulations in India.
- AYUSH, and Accreditation agencies like NABH
- Organ donation, confidentiality of patient records regulations in India
- Indian National Health Policy 2017, Code of Ethics for Nurses in India, medicolegal issues in health care in India
Table of Contents
UNIT 1 The Patient, Nursing, and Health Care
Environment
1 Health and Wellness, 1
2 The Health Care Delivery System
3 Nursing Today: Nursing as a Profession,
4 Evidence-Based Practice
5 Caring in Nursing Practice
6 Cultural Awareness
UNIT 2 Professional Standards in Nursing
Practices
7 Ethics and Values
8 Legal Implications in Nursing Practice
UNIT 3 Communication and Nurse-Patient
Relationship
9 Communication
10 Patient Education
UNIT 4 Critical Thinking and Nursing Process
in Nursing Practices
11 Critical Thinking in Nursing Practice
12 Nursing Assessment
13 Nursing Diagnosis
14 Planning Nursing Care
15 Implementing Nursing Care
16 Evaluation
17 Managing Patient Care
UNIT 5 Documentation and Informatics
18 Documentation and Reporting
UNIT 6 Foundations of Nursing Practice
19 Hospitalization: Admission and Discharge
20 Vital Signs
21 Health Assessment and Physical Examination
22 Machinery, Equipment, and Linen
23 Infection Prevention and Control
24 Medication Administration
25 Complementary and Alternative Therapies
26 Patient Safety and Quality
UNIT 7 Psychological Basis of Nursing Practice
27 Self-Concept
28 Sexuality
29 Spiritual Health
30 The Experience of Loss, Death, and Grief
31 Stress and Coping
UNIT 8 Physiological Basis of Nursing Practice
32 Activity and Exercise
33 Hygiene
34 Oxygenation
35 Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance
36 Sleep
37 Pain Management
38 Nutrition
39 Urinary Elimination
40 Bowel Elimination
41 Mobility and Immobility
42 Skin Integrity and Wound Care
43 Sensory Alterations
UNIT 9 Advance Nursing Practice
44 Care of Surgical Patients
45 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice
