Cover -- Title Page -- Front Matter -- Copyright -- CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- PUBLISHER'S DEDICATION -- PREFACE -- DEDICATIONS -- STANDARD STEPS FOR NURSING PROCEDURES -- Table of Contents -- Unit 1: The evolution of nursing -- Chapter 1: NURSING: HISTORICAL, PRESENT AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter 2: OUTLINE OF NURSING THEORIES AND FRAMEWORKS OF CARE -- Chapter 3: LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF NURSING PRACTICE -- Chapter 4: NURSING RESEARCH -- Unit 2: The health care environment -- Chapter 5: SYSTEMS OF HEALTH CARE DELIVERY -- Chapter 6: HEALTH PROMOTION AND EDUCATION -- Chapter 7: COMMUNITY-BASED CARE -- Chapter 8: HEALTH AND WELLNESS -- Unit 3: Cultural diversity and nursing practice -- Chapter 9: CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND -- Chapter 10: INDIGENOUS HEALTH -- Unit 4: Promoting psychosocial health in nursing practice -- Chapter 11: SPIRITUALITY -- Chapter 12: SEXUALITY -- Chapter 13: STRESS AND ADAPTATION -- Chapter 14: LOSS, GRIEF AND DEATH -- Unit 5: Nursing individuals throughout the lifespan -- Chapter 15: THEORIES OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT: CONCEPTION THROUGH TO LATE CHILDHOOD -- Chapter 16: GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT: LATE CHILDHOOD THROUGH TO ADOLESCENCE -- Chapter 17: GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT FROM THE YOUNGER ADULT THROUGH TO THE OLDER ADULT -- Unit 6: The nursing process -- Chapter 18: CRITICAL THINKING, PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING, AND REFLECTIVE PRACTICE -- Chapter 19: COMPONENTS OF THE NURSING PROCESS -- Chapter 20: DOCUMENTATION AND REPORTING SKILLS -- Unit 7: Assessing health -- Chapter 21: VITAL SIGNS -- Chapter 22: ADDITIONAL CLINICAL MEASUREMENTS -- Chapter 23: GENERAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT -- Chapter 24: ADMISSION, TRANSFER AND DISCHARGE PROCESS -- Unit 8: Important component of nursing care -- Chapter 25: INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL -- Chapter 26: SAFETY AND PROTECTION -- Chapter 27: HYGIENE AND COMFORT.

Chapter 28: MEDICATIONS -- Chapter 29: COMMUNICATION -- Unit 9: Health promotion and nursing care of the individual -- Chapter 30: MEETING FLUID AND ELECTROLYTE NEEDS -- Chapter 31: NUTRITION -- Chapter 32: URINARY ELIMINATION -- Chapter 33: BOWEL ELIMINATION -- Chapter 34: REST AND SLEEP -- Chapter 35: PAIN MANAGEMENT -- Chapter 36: MOVEMENT AND EXERCISE -- Chapter 37: SKIN INTEGRITY AND WOUND CARE -- Chapter 38: OXYGENATION -- Chapter 39: ENDOCRINE HEALTH -- Chapter 40: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH -- Chapter 41: NEUROLOGICAL HEALTH -- Chapter 42: SENSORY ABILITIES -- Chapter 43: PALLIATIVE CARE -- Chapter 44: PERIOPERATIVE NURSING -- Chapter 45: MENTAL HEALTH -- Chapter 46: REHABILITATION NURSING -- Chapter 47: BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF DISABILITY -- Chapter 48: EMERGENCY CARE -- Chapter 49: MATERNAL AND NEWBORN CARE -- STANDARD STEPS FOR ALL NURSING PROCEDURES/INTERVENTIONS -- UNITS OF MEASUREMENT -- TABLE OF NORMAL VALUES -- COMMONLY USED ABBREVIATIONS -- DRUG CALCULATIONS -- INDEX.

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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