Applying Nursing Process: A Step-By-Step Guide

Presents a step-by-step approach to understanding the nursing process and nursing diagnosis. Completely updated in its third edition, this concise text still maintains its easy-to-understand approach to understanding the theory of the nursing process and how it applies to actual practice. This new edition places greater emphasis on many aspects of nursing, including critical thinking and decision-making, using appropriate resources, interpersonal and communication skills, legal and ethical implications of diagnosis and outcomes, and the importance of combining knowledge, skills, and willingness to care to developing nursing process expertise. It also integrates new ANA standards of clinical practice throughout as well as includes more practice sessions and a completely revised Nursing Diagnosis Quick Reference section. The Fourth Edition of this essential text will be available in November, 1997.