Fundamentals for Nursing 10. 0 PDF
Preview Fundamentals for Nursing 10. 0
NCLEX® major client needs categories: Safe, Effective Care
Environment, Health Promotion, Psychosocial Integrity,
and Physiological Integrity. Chapters within these
units conform to one of four organizing principles for
presenting the content.
● Nursing concepts
● Growth and development
● Procedures
● System Disorders
Nutritional considerations for specific Nursing concepts
chapters begin with an overview describing the central
concept and its relevance to nursing. Subordinate themes
are covered in outline form to demonstrate relationships
and present the information in a clear, succinct manner.
Nutritional considerations for specific Growth and
development chapters cover expected growth and
development, including physical and psychosocial
development, age-appropriate activities, and health
promotion, including immunizations, health screenings,
nutrition, and injury prevention.
Procedures chapters include an overview describing
the procedure(s) covered in the chapter. These
chapters provide nursing knowledge relevant to each
procedure, including indications, nursing considerations,
interpretation of findings, and complications.
Each chapter includes opportunities for you to test your
knowledge and to practice applying that knowledge. Active
Learning Scenario exercises pose a nursing scenario and
then direct you to use an ATI Active Learning Template
(included at the back of this book) to record the important
knowledge a nurse should apply to the scenario. An
example is then provided to which you can compare your
completed Active Learning Template. The Application
Exercises include NCLEX-style questions (multiplechoice and multiple-select items), providing you with
opportunities to practice answering the kinds of questions
you might expect to see on ATI assessments or the NCLEX.
After the Application Exercises, an answer key is provided,
along with rationales.
To prepare for the NCLEX, it is important to understand
how the content in this Review Module is connected to
the NCLEX test plan. You can find information on the
detailed test plan at the National Council of State Boards
of Nursing’s website, www.ncsbn.org. When reviewing
content in this Review Module, regularly ask yourself,
“How does this content fit into the test plan, and what
types of questions related to this content should I expect?”
To help you in this process, we’ve included NCLEX
Connections at the beginning of each unit and with each
question in the Application Exercises Answer Keys. The
NCLEX Connections at the beginning of each unit point
out areas of the detailed test plan that relate to the content
within that unit. The NCLEX Connections attached to the
Application Exercises Answer Keys demonstrate how each
exercise fits within the detailed content outline.
These NCLEX Connections will help you understand how
the detailed content outline is organized, starting with
major client needs categories and subcategories and
followed by related content areas and tasks. The major
client needs categories are:
● Safe and Effective Care Environment
◯ Management of Care
◯ Safety and Infection Control
● Health Promotion and Maintenance
● Psychosocial Integrity
● Physiological Integrity
◯ Basic Care and Comfort
◯ Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
◯ Reduction of Risk Potential
◯ Physiological Adaptation
An NCLEX Connection might, for example, alert you that
content within a unit is related to:
● Basic Care and Comfort
◯ Assistive Devices
■ Assess client use of assistive devices.
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