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Potter & Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing – ANZ, 6th Edition and Fundamentals of Nursing: Clinical Skills Workbook, 4th Edition Value Pack, 2nd Edition

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By Jackie Crisp, RN, PhD, Clint Douglas, RN, BN, MClinEpi, MMedStat, PhD, FACN, Geraldine Rebeiro, RN, Midwife, B.AppSci (Adv Nsng), B.Ed Studs, M.Ed, PhD, MACN, Donna Waters, RN, Paed Cert, BA, MPH, PhD, FACN, Plowman Evan, MN, BN, BClinPrac(Paramedics), Damian Wilson, RN, BNurs, Grad Cert Emerg Nurs, Grad CertEd (HEd), MNurs (Emerg Care), MACN, MCENA and Stacey Dix, RN, BSc(Nurs), GradCert(CritCare), GradCert(HlthProfEd)
This suite of resources comprises Australia and New Zealand’s two leading fundamentals texts for nursing students, comprehensively updated and revised to reflect current practice and standards. Potter and Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing ANZ 6e i ...view more

This suite of resources comprises Australia and New Zealand’s two leading fundamentals texts for nursing students, comprehensively updated and revised to reflect current practice and standards.

Potter and Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing ANZ 6e is the go-to reference for nursing students. Fully aligned to the curriculum, it covers the fundamentals of nursing care and supports the development of safe, effective and person-centred practice. Fundamentals of Nursing: Clinical Skills Workbook 4e is an essential companion to the core text. Clear instructions and reflective learning support students to apply the clinical skills they need confidently and effectively.

This value pack also includes Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing (EAQ) for Potter & Perry's Fundamentals of Nursing, ANZ 6e. Corresponding chapter-by-chapter to the core text, EAQ prepares students for tutorials, lectures and exams, with access to thousands of exam-style questions at your fingertips.

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This suite of resources comprises Australia and New Zealand’s two leading fundamentals texts for nursing students, comprehensively updated and revised to reflect current practice and standards.

Potter and Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing ANZ 6e is the go-to reference for nursing students. Fully aligned to the curriculum, it covers the fundamentals of nursing care and supports the development of safe, effective and person-centred practice. Fundamentals of Nursing: Clinical Skills Workbook 4e is an essential companion to the core text. Clear instructions and reflective learning support students to apply the clinical skills they need confidently and effectively.

This value pack also includes Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing (EAQ) for Potter & Perry's Fundamentals of Nursing, ANZ 6e. Corresponding chapter-by-chapter to the core text, EAQ prepares students for tutorials, lectures and exams, with access to thousands of exam-style questions at your fingertips.


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Key Features

Potter & Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing – ANZ, 6th Edition

  • 79 Clinical Skills over 41 chapters updated to reflect latest evidence and practice standards, including 4 new skills
  • Fully aligned to local learning and curriculum outcomes, 2016 NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice and National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards
  • 44 clinical skills videos (including 5 NEW) available on Evolve, along with additional student and instructor resources
  • Easy-to-understand for first-year students
  • A focus on person-centred practice and language throughout
  • An eBook included in all print purchases

Companion Fundamentals of Nursing: Clinical Skills Workbook, 4th Edition

  • 81 updated clinical skills (including 4 NEW), linking applied nursing skills to real-word practice
  • Extended skills to those in the core text to reflect more advanced practice
  • Figures now included to illustrate particular steps in a skill
  • Amended Bondy rating scale for a generic assessment
  • An eBook included in all print purchases

Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing for Potter & Perry's Fundamentals of Nursing, ANZ 6e

  • Over 2,450 self-quizzing questions that allows students to advance at their own pace — based on performance — through multiple mastery levels for each chapter
  • A comprehensive dashboard allows students to view their progress, and identify areas of strength and weakness

Author Information
By Jackie Crisp, RN, PhD, Consultant – Leadership and Culture Change in Healthcare, Sydney, NSW; Clint Douglas, RN, BN, MClinEpi, MMedStat, PhD, FACN, Professor and Nursing Chair, Faculty of Health QUT School of Nursing & Metro North Hospital and Health Service, QLD; Geraldine Rebeiro, RN, Midwife, B.AppSci (Adv Nsng), B.Ed Studs, M.Ed, PhD, MACN, Associate National Course Coordinator - Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Business Administration, Senior Lecturer (Melbourne) School of Nursing, Midwifery & Paramedicine (Vic) ACU, Melbourne; Donna Waters, RN, Paed Cert, BA, MPH, PhD, FACN, Professor, Sydney Nursing School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney; Plowman Evan, MN, BN, BClinPrac(Paramedics), Lecturer in Nursing Charles Sturt University Boorooma St Building 2, Wagga Wagga Campus Wagga Wagga, NSW, 2650 Australia; Damian Wilson, RN, BNurs, Grad Cert Emerg Nurs, Grad CertEd (HEd), MNurs (Emerg Care), MACN, MCENA, Associate Nurse Unit Manager Emergency Department Sunshine Hospital, Victoria and Stacey Dix, RN, BSc(Nurs), GradCert(CritCare), GradCert(HlthProfEd), Staff Development Educator, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
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ISBN Number 9780729544184
Description Author List By Jackie Crisp, RN, PhD, Consultant – Leadership and Culture Change in Healthcare, Sydney, NSW; Clint Douglas, RN, BN, MClinEpi, MMedStat, PhD, FACN, Professor and Nursing Chair, Faculty of Health QUT School of Nursing & Metro North Hospital and Health Service, QLD; Geraldine Rebeiro, RN, Midwife, B.AppSci (Adv Nsng), B.Ed Studs, M.Ed, PhD, MACN, Associate National Course Coordinator - Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Business Administration, Senior Lecturer (Melbourne) School of Nursing, Midwifery & Paramedicine (Vic) ACU, Melbourne; Donna Waters, RN, Paed Cert, BA, MPH, PhD, FACN, Professor, Sydney Nursing School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney; Plowman Evan, MN, BN, BClinPrac(Paramedics), Lecturer in Nursing Charles Sturt University Boorooma St Building 2, Wagga Wagga Campus Wagga Wagga, NSW, 2650 Australia; Damian Wilson, RN, BNurs, Grad Cert Emerg Nurs, Grad CertEd (HEd), MNurs (Emerg Care), MACN, MCENA, Associate Nurse Unit Manager Emergency Department Sunshine Hospital, Victoria and Stacey Dix, RN, BSc(Nurs), GradCert(CritCare), GradCert(HlthProfEd), Staff Development Educator, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
Copyright Year 2021
Edition Number 2
Format Book
Trim Other
Imprint Elsevier
Page Count 0
Publication Date 27 Oct 2020
Stock Status IN STOCK

Part 1 Evolving nursing: nursing and the healthcare environment
1. Creating a proactive and dynamic nursing profession
2. Building nursing practice: The Fundamentals of Care Framework
3. Engaging patients and keeping them safe
4. Enabling cultural safety
5. Partnering in care
Part 2 Framing nursing: critical processes in nursing practice
6. Developing clinical reasoning for nursing practice
7. Gathering relevant information and making decisions
8. Setting priorities, taking action and evaluating outcomes
9. Generating and using nursing knowledge
Part 3 Positioning nursing: professional responsibility and accountability for safe and effective care
10. Collaborating for integrated care
11. Examining the ethical practice of nursing
12. Practising nursing within Australian regulatory frameworks
13. Acting in accordance with New Zealand regulatory frameworks
14. Placing communication at the heart of person-centred care
15. Putting the ‘e’ in health
Part 4 Practising nursing: Fundamentals of Care for quality and safety
16. The vital signs: using a primary survey approach for patient assessment
17. Undertaking a focused assessment: physical assessment of body systems
18. Preventing and controlling infection
19. Optimising skin integrity and wound care
20. Ensuring medication safety
21. Promoting mobility
22. Assessing and managing pain
23. Supporting oxygenation and perfusion
24. Balancing fluid, electrolyte and acid–base
25. Meeting nutritional needs
26. Maintaining hygiene
27. Managing continence: urinary
28. Managing continence: bowel
29. Fostering sleep
Part 5 Adapting nursing: life stages and transitions
30. Considering the developmental context from conception to adolescence
31. Considering the developmental context of youth and adults
32. Considering the older person
33. Considering the person with disability
34. Considering sexuality and sexual health
35. Managing mental health and wellbeing
36. Considering end-of-life care
Part 6 Adapting nursing: contexts of care
37. Working in the aged care sector
38. Working in primary and community health sectors
39. Working in the acute care sector
40. Working in the mental sector

Fundamentals of Nursing Clinical Skills workbook, 4th Edition

Mapped to Potter & Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing 6e

Chapter/ Skills

Chapter 14 Placing communication at the heart of person-centred care
14-1       Patient handover

Chapter 16 Monitoring vital signs: using a primary survey approach for patient assessment
16-1 Assessing respirations
16-2 Measuring oxygen saturation (SpO2)
16-3 Assessing the radial and apical pulses
16-4 Measuring blood pressure (BP)
16-5 Measuring body temperature


Chapter 17 Undertaking a focused assessment: Physical assessment of body systems
17-1 Nursing physical assessment using a body systems framework
17-2 Focused neurological assessment
17-3 Focused cardiovascular assessment
17-4 Focused respiratory assessment
17-5 Focused gastrointestinal assessment
17-6 Focused renal assessment
17-7 Focused musculoskeletal assessment
17-8 Focused skin or integumentary assessment

Chapter 18 Understanding infection control
18-1 Hand washing
18-2 Preparing an aseptic field
18-3 Surgical hand antisepsis (‘scrubbing’): preparing for gowning and gloving
18-4 Open gloving
18-5 Donning a sterile gown and performing closed gloving

Chapter 19 Optimising skin integrity and wound care
19-1 Performing a bacterial wound swab
19-4 Performing a wound dressing
19-2 Assessment, management and prevention of skin tears
19-3 Assessment for risk of pressure injury

Chapter 20 Ensuring medication safety
20-1 Administering oral medications
20-2 Administering nasal instillations
20-3 Administering ophthalmic medications
20-4 Administering vaginal medications
20-5 Administering rectal suppositories
20-6 Using metred-dose inhalers (MDIs)
20-7 Preparing injections
20-8 Administering injections
20-9 Adding medications to intravenous fluid containers
20-10 Administering medications by intravenous bolus
20-11 Administering intravenous medications by a secondary infusion
20-12 Administering intravenous medications by a syringe driver/mini-Infuser pump (New)

Chapter 21 Preventing and managing immobility
21-1    Applying sequential compression devices (SCDs)
21-2 Compression stockings
21-3 Positioning patients in bed
21-4 Transfer techniques

Chapter 22 Assessing and managing pain
22-1 Focused pain assessment

Chapter 23 Supporting oxygenation and perfusion
23-1 Using a hand-held doppler ultrasound probe to assess peripheral pulses (New)
23-2  Continuous Cardiac Monitoring (CCM)
23-3 Conducting a 12 Lead ECG
23-4 Suctioning
23-5 Care of patients with chest tubes
23-6 Applying a nasal cannula or oxygen mask
23-7  Cardiopulmonary resuscitation – basic life support


Chapter 24 Balancing fluid, electrolyte and acid-base status
24-1  Assessment of fluid status
24-2 Subcutaneous infusion (hypodermoclysis)
24-3 Initiating a peripheral intravenous (IV) infusion
24-4 Regulating intravenous flow rate
24-5 Changing intravenous solution and infusion tubing
24-6 Changing a peripheral intravenous dressing
24-7  Care of the patient requiring a blood transfusion
Advanced Skills Management of Central Venous Catheters (CVC)
Adv. Skill 1 Regulating CVC intravenous flow rate
Adv. Skill 2 CVC dressing change and flush

Chapter 25 Meeting nutritional needs
25-1 Inserting a small-bore nasoenteric tube for enteral feedings
25-2 Administering enteral feedings via nasoenteric tubes
25-3 Administering enteral feedings via gastrostomy or jejunostomy tube
25-4 Blood glucose levels (NEW)


Chapter 26 Ongoing hygiene
26-1 Bathing a person
26-2 Perineal care
26-3 Menstrual hygiene
26-4 Administering a back rub
26-5 Performing nail and foot care
26-6 Providing oral hygiene
26-7 Performing mouth care for an unconscious or debilitated client
26-8 Caring for the person with contact lenses
26-9 Making an occupied bed
26-10  Making a post-operative bed

Chapter 27 Maintaining elimination: urinary
27-1 Bladder Ultrasound (New)
27-2 Collecting a mid-stream (clean-voided) urine specimen

27-3 Applying a sheath/condom drainage device
27-4 Inserting a straight or indwelling catheter
Additional Skill 1 NEW Pouching a urostomy

Chapter 28 Maintaining elimination: bowel
28-1 Administering a prepared enema
28-2 Pouching an ostomy
28-3 Inserting and maintaining a nasogastric tube (for decompression)

Chapter 39 Working in acute care environments
39-1     Assessment and management of the deteriorating patient ABCDE


Chapter 40 Working in the mental health sector
40-1 Mental state examination

Plus NEW Nursing Informatics Skill and competency assessment tool

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