- NEW! Updated exercises reflect the most current textbook content.

Study guide for the regular version of the title.

Reinforce your understanding of nursing concepts and skills, and apply that knowledge to nursing practice! Corresponding to the chapters in deWit’s Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 4th Edition, this study guide provides practice exercises, review questions, and application activities to help you gain a solid understanding of the principles and skills you’ll need to succeed in your nursing classes and in your career. Steps to Better Communication sections in each chapter include a vocabulary building glossary, NCLEX exam-style completion exercises, grammar and pronunciation exercises, and cultural issues. Review Questions for the NCLEX-PN Examination include multiple-choice and alternate-format questions related to content in the textbook. Clinical Situations ask you to apply key concepts to nursing practice. Setting Priorities questions ask you to rank tasks in order of importance — prioritization is one of the most important skills in nursing. Application of the Nursing Process questions help you make the connection between the nursing process and real-world patient care. Text page references make it easy to locate answers in the textbook. To the Student instructions provide study hints to ESL and non-ESL students. Updated content reflects current issues in nursing, such as QSEN standards.

- NEW! Nursing Concepts and Exemplars listed for each chapter to support concept curriculums. - NEW! Discussion of QSEN and highlighted Safety information provides you with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of patient care. - EXPANDED! Evidence-Based Practice boxes and highlighted best practices point out the most current, evidence-based information. - UPDATED! Expanded art program with original photos and line art better illustrates nursing concepts.

Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 6th Edition prepares students to learn the basic concepts and fundamental skills that LPNs/LVNs need to practice in a number of care settings, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, medical offices, clinics, surgery centres, and home care agencies. This second South Asia Edition of DeWit's Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing is a uniquely featured textbook, designed to make a worthy impact on its readers. The book is customised as per the revised B.Sc. Nursing curriculum prescribed by the Indian Nursing Council (INC) to meet the learning requirements of undergraduate students. Nursing professionals aspiring for higher education or career progression will also find this book useful for reference. The full-colour text contains theoretical nursing concepts, step-by-step skills and procedures, and clinical applications to build a strong foundation in the patient care experience. The underlying framework of all the chapters pivots around the nursing process, and also portrays the concepts like psycho-social aspects, critical thinking, communication skills, inter- professional collaborations, patient-family education and cultural integrity.• Discusses more than 80 essential skills and around 30 petite forms of skills with step-by-step format supported with coloured illustrations along with action/rationale format• Each chapter starts with key terms, objectives and has supportive glossary• Enhanced with stimulating highpoints such as Special Clinical Cues, Cultural Considerations, Lifespan Considerations, Focused Assessment, Health Promotion, Legal & Ethical Considerations, Patient Education, QSEN Considerations, Safety Alert and Think Critically boxes• Includes nursing process framework featuring the application of the nursing process and nursing care plans, reinforcing its application in the clinical setting• More than 20 Nursing Care Plans illustrating each step of the nursing process • Includes Concept Maps that help students visualise concepts addressed in the text and learn how a condition or response (relating to symptoms, treatments, and side effects) can affect more than one body system

Part of the popular LPN Threads series, this market-leading text features an easy-to-follow writing style and organization to teach you the concepts and skills you need to know to practice nursing in a variety of care settings. This new edition offers in-depth discussion of QSEN competencies, rationales for the NCLEX-PN review questions, and new icons to point out the most current evidence-based information. Standard LPN Threads features include helpful characteristics such as full-color design, key terms, numbered objectives, key points, critical thinking questions, critical thinking activities, glossary, and references. Easy-to-follow reading level and text organization presents information from simple to most complex. Think Critically boxes help you synthesize information and apply concepts beyond the scope of the chapter. Cultural Considerations related to biocultural variations as well as health promotion for specific ethnic groups demonstrate how to provide culturally competent care. Elder Care Points highlight changes that occur with aging and how they affect nursing care. Home Care boxes highlight the necessary adaptations of nursing skills and techniques for the patient in the home care setting. NEW! Rationales for NCLEX review questions at the end of each chapter help you understand why your choices were correct or incorrect. NEW! Full text reviews by experts in the field offer consistency and ease understanding as you progress through the book. NEW! Evolve margin icons denote supplemental material for students on Evolve. NEW! Evidence Based Practice margin icons point out the most current and evidence based information. NEW! In depth discussion of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) within the text provides the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems.

- Testing Strategies for the NCLEX-PN Examination chapter addresses the challenges of the Next Generation NCLEX® and provides targeted strategies for success. - UNIQUE! Mnemonic cartoons provide a fun, easy way to review and remember key nursing concepts and disease processes. - More than 2,000 review questions on the companion Evolve website are available in both study and quiz modes and separated by content area, allowing customized review based on personal study needs. - Examples of Next Generation NCLEX-style questions on the companion Evolve website familiarize you with these new types of questions. - Answers and rationales are provided for all review questions. - Test Alert! boxes highlight key concepts frequently found on the NCLEX examination. - Alternate item format questions on the companion Evolve website prepare you for these question types on the NCLEX examination. - UNIQUE! Appendixes for each chapter summarize medications and nursing procedures for quick reference. - Nursing Priority boxes make it easier to distinguish priorities of nursing care. - Pharmacology tables make key drug information easy to find, with high-alert medications noted by a special icon. - Special icons distinguish pediatric and adult disorders and identify content on self-care and home care. - A separate chapter on pharmacology and medication administration helps you focus on this area of emphasis on the NCLEX examination.

NEW! Rationales for NCLEX review questions at the end of each chapter help you understand why your choices were correct or incorrect. NEW! Full text reviews by experts in the field offer consistency and ease understanding as you progress through the book. NEW! Evolve margin icons denote supplemental material for students on Evolve. NEW! Evidence Based Practice margin icons point out the most current and evidence based information. NEW! In depth discussion of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) within the text provides the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems.

Study guide for the regular version of the title.