Tabbner's Nursing Care: Theory and Practice

Gabby Koutoukidis, Rita Funnell, Karen Lawrence, Jodie Hughson, Kate Stainton

Elsevier Australia, 2008 - Medical - 974 pages

A vital member of the health care team, the contemporary enrolled nurse faces increasing challenges and an increasing level of responsibility. Written specifically for Australian and New Zealand enrolled nurse students, this long awaited new edition reflects the changes and challenges in contemporary enrolled nurse practice as well as the additions and modifications that are occurring in nursing curricula. Tabbner's Nursing Care: Theory and Practice 5th edition has been written, reviewed and edited by the people who educate the enrolled nurse and continues to provide enrolled nurse students with the most comprehensive resource available.

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Contents

• What is nursing?: 4
• Roles and functions of the nurse: 8
• Nursing the profession: 12
• Outline of nursing theories and frameworks of care: 17
• Theories and models of nursing: 18
• Overview of selected nursing theories: 19
• Theoretical views on caring: 22
• Legal and ethical aspects of nursing practice: 27
• Legal aspects of nursing practice: 28
• Areas of legal liability in nursing: 29
• Nursing ethics: 34
• Nursing research: 37
• Nursing research: 38
• Research methods: 39
• The research process: 41
• Proposal writing for research approval: 46
• How is research utilised in practice?: 47
• Systems of health care delivery: 55
• The Australian health care system: 56
• Health services delivery: 57
• The health and disability sector in New Zealand: 58
• Health care economics: 59
• Health care settings: 62
• Factors affecting health care delivery: 63
• Health promotion and education: 66
• Health: 67
• Health promotion: 68
• Prerequisites for health: 69
• Goals and targets for Australias health in the 21st century: 70
• The role of the nurse in health promotion: 71
• The nursing process in health promotion and health education: 72
• Communitybased care: 77
• Communitybased health care: 78
• Communitybased nursing: 79
• Case management: 80
• The nursing process and community nursing: 81
• Health and wellness: 83
• Concepts of health and wellness: 84
• Variables influencing health beliefs and practices: 85
• Nursing and illness: 87
• Impact of acute and chronic illness on client and family: 88
• Cultural diversity in Australia and New Zealand: 93
• Cultural diversity in Australia an New Zealand: 94
• What is culture?: 95
• How does culture influence health?: 96
• Culture clash and culture conflict: 97
• The influence of culture shock: 99
• Transcultural nursing: 101
• Cultural safety: 102
• Competence in nursing across cultures: 103
• Indigenous health: 107
• The Indigenous health: 108
• Colonisation: 109
• The health status of Indigenous People in Australia and New Zealand: 112
• The meaning of health and illness: 113
• Indigenous health in Indigenous hands: 114
• Meeting the challenge: 116
• Spirituality: 123
• Defining spirituality: 124
• Culture and spirituality: 125
• Spiritual healing and the nurse: 127
• Spirituality and nursing assessment: 128
• nursing evaluation: 134
• Sexuality: 137
• What is sexuality?: 138
• Sexual development: 139
• Alterations to sexual health: 141
• Implementing the nursing process: 144
• Professional boundaries and sexuality: 146
• Stress and adaptation: 149
• Dimensions of stress and stressors: 150
• Stress adaptation models: 152
• Illness and stress: 156
• The nurse and stress: 159
• Therapeutic approaches to stress management: 160
• Loss grief and death: 164
• Loss: 165
• Working with grieving people: 169
• Death and dying: 170
• Care of the dying: 171
• Death and postmortem after death care: 173
• Care of the bereaved: 176
• Legal and ethical issues: 177
• Theories of growth and development conception through to late childhood: 183
• Theories of development: 184
• Growth and development: 185
• Conception: 187
• Intrauterine development and growth: 188
• Transition to extrauterine life: 190
• Childhood: 194
• Factors influencing growth and development: 196
• Nursing implications: 197
• Growth and development late childhood through to adolescence: 200
• Preadolescence: 201
• Responses to puberty: 207
• Health risks: 208
• Health promotion: 211
• Growth and development from the younger adult through to the older adult: 213
• Early adulthood: 214
• Grandparents: 215
• Critical thinking problembased learning and reflective practice: 221
• Critical thinking: 222
• Problembased learning: 223
• Reflective practice: 224
• Components of the nursing process: 228
• An overview of the nursing process: 229
• Documentation and reporting skills: 237
• Purpose of documentation: 238
• Reporting: 239
• Documentation: 240
• Resident classification scale RCS: 241
• Casemix case management and critical pathways: 245
• Vital signs: 251
• Guidelines for taking vital signs: 252
• Pulse: 260
• Respiration: 264
• Pules oximetry measuring oxygen saturation: 268
• Additional clinical measurements: 275
• Urinalysis: 276
• Examination of urine: 279
• Monitoring blood glucose levels: 280
• Assisting with electrocardiogram: 288
• General health assessment: 294
• Physical assessment: 295
• Guidelines for conducting a general health assessment: 298
• Diagnostic procedures: 299
• Assessing infants and children: 300
• Recording and reporting: 305
• Admission transfer and discharge process: 307
• Types of admission: 308
• Discharge planning: 314
• Infection prevention and control: 325
• Microorganisms and infection: 326
• Chain of infection: 328
• Resistance to infection: 332
• Factors that increase susceptibility to infection: 338
• Asepsis and infection prevention and control: 340
• Disinfection: 347
• Barrier and isolation precautions: 350
• Preparation for discharge to the home environment: 351
• Surgical asepsis: 352
• Infection prevention and control for health care workers: 356
• Safety and protection: 361
• Factors affecting the safety of clients: 362
• Risk assessment and management: 364
• Common causes of injury: 365
• Protective devices and other forms of restraint: 371
• Occupational health and safety: 374
• Hygiene and comfort: 380
• Factors affecting personal hygiene: 381
• Bathing and showering: 382
• Hair care: 389
• Eye ear and nasal care: 391
• Mouth care: 393
• Nail care: 394
• Hygiene summary: 396
• Bed making: 400
• Comfortable positioning: 403
• Medications: 410
• Pharmacology: 411
• Pharmacokinetics: 413
• Pharmacodynamics: 416
• Nursing care and administration of medications: 417
• Drug calculations: 422
• Administering medications: 424
• Monitoring the effects of medications: 438
• Continuation of medication after discharge: 441
• Communication: 445
• Levels of communication: 446
• Elements of the communication process: 447
• Forms of communication: 450
• Therapeutic helping relationships: 454
• Communicating with children adolescents and older adults: 459
• Strategies that enhance interactions when clients have special requirements: 462
• Complications in nurseclient relationships: 470
• Meeting fluid and electrolyte needs: 475
• Science in nursing: 476
• Acids and bases: 478
• Chemical energy: 480
• Radiation: 482
• Fluid balance: 483
• Nursing practice and meeting fluid and electrolyte needs: 485
• Nursing management of a client with fluid and eledtrolyte imbalance: 488
• Intravenous therapy: 489
• Nutrition: 496
• Nutrition: 497
• Nutrients: 500
• Diets to meet client needs: 501
• Nursing practice and nutritional needs: 505
• Common disorders associated with nutrition: 508
• Alternative methods to meet nutritional needs: 510
• Urinary elimination: 519
• The urinary system: 520
• Nursing care and meeting elimination needs: 523
• Factors affecting the urinary system: 524
• Catheters: 526
• Alterations in urinary system functioning: 530
• Care of the client with a disorder of the urinary system: 534
• Bowel elimination: 546
• The digestive tract: 547
• Physiology of digestion: 552
• Excretion: 554
• Nursing interventions: 557
• Disorders of the digestive system: 558
• Care of the individual with a digestive system disorder: 563
• Rest and Sleep: 567
• Physiology of sleep: 568
• Sleep disorders: 569
• Factors leading to sleep distubbances: 571
• Assessing sleep patterns: 572
• Pain management: 577
• Physiology of pain: 578
• Assessing pain: 582
• Nursing practice and pain avoidance needs: 584
• Nursing care of a client experiencing pain: 587
• Movement and exercise: 590
• The musculoskeletal system: 591
• Types of exercise: 594
• Diseases of muscles: 595
• Diseases of bones: 596
• Care of the individual with a musculoskeletal disorder: 600
• Nursing practice in meeting movement and exercise needs: 603
• Walking aids: 605
• Complications associated with reduced mobility: 609
• Skin integrity and wound care: 615
• The integumentary system: 616
• Wound healing: 618
• Types of wounds: 619
• Pathophysiological influenceseffects and major manifestations of skin disorders: 621
• Specific disorders of the skin: 622
• Care of the individual with a skin disorder: 625
• Pressure sores decubitus ulcers: 626
• Leg ulcers: 631
• Burns: 632
• Wound management: 637
• Oxygenation: 645
• Structure of the respiratory system: 646
• Scientific principles related to the respiratory system: 649
• Structure of the cardiovascular system: 652
• Circulation of blood: 658
• Structure of the lymphatic system: 661
• Factors affecting respiratory function: 662
• Respiratory pathophysiological influences and effects: 664
• Specific disorders of the respiratory system disorders: 665
• Cardiac pathophysiological influences and effects: 668
• Major clinical manifestations of circulatory system disorders: 669
• Diagnostic tests: 675
• Care of the client with a respiratory and or cardiac system disorder: 679
• The client with an artificial airway: 687
• The client with thoracic drainage tubes: 691
• Nursing practice and oxygen needs: 693
• Key aspects related to oxygen therapy: 697
• Endocrine health: 701
• Structure and function of the endocrine system: 702
• Care of the client with an endocrine disorder: 711
• Reproductive health: 716
• The male reproductive system: 717
• Disorders of the male reproductive system: 718
• Assessment and diagnostic tests: 722
• Nursing interventions in male reproductive health: 723
• Disorders of the female reproductive system: 726
• Assessment and diagnostic tests: 731
• Nursing interventions in female reproductive health: 733
• Reproductive system health and illness: 735
• Disorders of reproduction infertility: 737
• Sexual abuse: 740
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases STDs: 742
• Neurological health: 747
• The function and structure of the neurological system: 748
• Pathophysiological influences and effects of disorders of the nervous system: 753
• Specific disorders of the nervous system: 756
• Diagnostic tests: 764
• Care of the client with a nervous system disorder: 767
• Assessing neurological status: 771
• Care of the unconscious client: 774
• Sensory abilities: 786
• Components of the sensory experience: 787
• The eye: 789
• Disorders of the eye: 792
• The ears: 800
• Disorders of the ear: 804
• Palliative care: 812
• The philosophy of palliative care: 813
• Experiences and responses in palliative care: 814
• Support for the nurse: 817
• Perioperative nursing: 819
• Perioperative: 820
• Preoperative care: 823
• Intraoperative period: 829
• Postoperative care: 832
• Mental health: 842
• Concepts of mental health and mental illness: 843
• Classification of mental disorders: 846
• Theoretical models and causation of mental illness: 850
• The provision of care: 851
• Care of clients with specific emotional andor behavioural challenges: 855
• Legal and ethical aspects of mental health nursing: 872
• Rehabilitation nursing: 880
• Aims and characteristics of rehabilitation: 881
• Philosophy of rehabilitation: 882
• The rehabilitation team: 883
• The process of rehabilitation: 887
• Behavioural and social aspects of disability: 892
• Classification of disability: 893
• Historical backgound: 895
• Responses to disability: 898
• Family caregiving impact and support: 901
• disability prevention: 903
• Emergency care: 907
• Introduction: 908
• Priorities of action in an emergency: 909
• Resuscitation: 910
• Principles of emergency care: 913
• Specific emergency situations: 915
• Maternal and newborn care: 926
• Pregnancy: 927
• Prenatal care and preparation: 929
• Labour: 932
• Postnatal care: 935
• Standard Steps for nursing procedures: 943
• Units of measurement: 945
• Table of normal values: 947
• Commonly used abbreviations: 949
• Drug calculations: 951
• Index: 953

Bibliographic information

• Title: Tabbner's Nursing Care: Theory and Practice
• Authors: Gabby Koutoukidis, Rita Funnell, Karen Lawrence, Jodie Hughson, Kate Stainton
• Editors: Gabrielle Koutoukidis, Kate Stainton
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Elsevier Australia, 2008
• ISBN: 0729538575, 9780729538572
• Length: 974 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Nursing / Fundamentals & Skills