Introduction to nursing and professional formation -- Theory, research, and evidence-based practice -- Health, wellness, and health disparities -- Health of the individual, family, community and environment -- Culturally respectful care -- Values, ethics, and advocacy -- Legal dimensions of nursing practice -- Communication -- Teaching and counseling -- Leading, managing, and delegating -- Health care delivery system -- Interprofessional collaborative practice and care coordination across settings -- Blended competencies, clinical reasoning, and processes of person-centered care -- Clinical judgment -- Assessing -- Diagnosis/Problem identification -- Outcome identification and planning -- Implementing -- Evaluating -- Documenting and reporting -- Informatics and health care technologies -- Developmental concepts -- Conception through young adulthood -- Middle and older adulthood -- Asepsis and infection control -- Vital signs -- Health assessment -- Safety, security, and emergency preparedness -- Complementary and integrative health -- Medications -- Perioperative nursing -- Hygiene -- Skin integrity and wound care -- Activity -- Rest and sleep -- Comfort and pain management -- Nutrition -- Urinary elimination -- Bowel elimination -- Oxygenation and perfusion -- Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance -- Self-concept -- Stress and adaptation -- Loss, grief, and dying -- Sensory functioning -- Sexuality -- Spirituality -- Index -- Glossary -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C.
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