Adult Nursing Practice

Adult Nursing Practice: Using evidence in care enables today's students and newly qualified nurses develop the knowledge and skills they need to deliver, and lead care tomorrow. Reflecting the principles of evidence-base care in line with the current NMC competencies, this textbook helps students learn to manage patients with common conditions and fundamental health needs do they can provide the best possible evidence-based care every day.
Written, and edited by leading nurses from practice, education and research, it focuses on common diseases, fundamental health needs, and symptoms that nurses' encounter in daily practice. Conditions
are clearly explained so that the causes of ill health are easily understood. Every chapter covers pathophysiology, indicates the key priorities for nursing assessment, and discusses 'what the evidence says', before considering nursing management options. Throughout the authors' clear signposts to trustworthy evidence mean that students can effortlessly select the best nursing interventions for their patients using the current available evidence-base. Encouraging the
development of lifelong clinical decision-making skills necessary for the care of adult patients across all health settings,Adult Nursing Practice is a contemporary, reliable and detailed account of
nursing practice that shows students and recently qualified nurses how to use research-based evidence to provide the best possible nursing care every day.