Fundamental nursing skills and concepts / Barbara Kuhn Timby.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unit 1: Exploring contemporary nursing. Nursing foundations -- Nursing process -- unit 2: Integrating basic concepts. Laws and ethics -- Health and illness -- Homeostasis, adaptation, and stress -- Culture and ethnicity -- unit 3: Fostering communication. The nurse-client relationship -- Client teaching -- Recording and reporting -- unit 4: Performing basic client care. Asepsis -- Admission, discharge, transfer, and referrals -- Vital signs -- Physical assessment -- Special examinations and tests -- unit 5: Assisting with basic needs. Nutrition -- Fluid and chemical balance -- Hygiene -- Comfort, rest, and sleep -- Safety -- Pain management -- Oxygenation -- Infection control -- unit 6: Assisting the inactive client. Body mechanics, positioning, and moving -- Therapeutic exercise -- Mechanical immobilization -- Ambulatory aids -- unit 7: The surgical client. Perioperative care -- Wound care -- Gastrointestinal intubation -- unit 8: Promoting elimination. Urinary elimination -- Bowel elimination -- unit 9: Medication administration. Oral medications -- Topical and inhalant medications -- Parenteral medications -- Intravenous medications -- unit 10: Intervening in emergency situations. Airway management -- Resuscitation -- unit 11: Caring for the terminally ill. End-of-life care -- Appendices -- Glossary -- NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses 2012-2014.