Fundamentals of Nursing (Fundamentals of Nursing (Potter & Perry))

Fundamentals of Nursing (Fundamentals of Nursing (Potter & Perry))

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Comprehensive, logically organized, and now easier to read, this market-leading fundamentals text provides you with up-to-date coverage of nursing principles, concepts, and skills. The book's nursing process framework, critical thinking emphasis, health promotion focus, and thorough coverage of acute and continuing care in all settings help prepare you for nursing practice today. This new edition addresses the increased focus on evidence-based practice and new guidelines for safe patient handling. Plus, a new, cutting-edge chapter on Surviving Cancer helps prepare you to address the unique health care needs of patients who have survived cancer, but still face the physical and emotional after-effects of the illness and its therapy.

  • The 5-step nursing process provides a consistent framework for clinical chapters.
  • UNIQUE! Critical Thinking in each clinical chapter includes Critical Thinking Models demonstrating the application of the nursing process and critical thinking.
  • More than 60 skills are generously illustrated and provide clear, step-by-step instructions for practicing safe nursing care.
  • Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions for skills alert you to possible problems and appropriate action.
  • Procedural Guidelines boxes provide streamlined, step-by-step instructions for performing very basic skills.
  • More than 20 care plans demonstrate the application of the 5-step nursing process to individual patient problems to help you understand how a plan is developed and how to evaluate care.
  • Clients in the care plan extend to the critical thinking activities at the end of each chapter.
  • Over 20 concept maps visually demonstrate planning care for clients with multiple nursing diagnoses.
  • Planning sections include sections on Goals and Outcomes, Setting Priorities, and Collaborative Care to help you plan and prioritize comprehensive client care.
  • Implementation sections include health promotion, acute care, and continuing care to prepare you for all levels of care in all settings.
  • UNIQUE! Safety Alerts provide information and techniques to ensure client and nurse safety based on The Joint Commission's list of National Patient Safety Goals.
  • Cultural Aspect of Care boxes summarize cultural considerations related to the chapter topic and provide practical guidelines for how to meet clients' cultural needs and preferences.
  • Client Teaching boxes help you plan effective teaching by first identifying outcomes, then developing strategies on how to teach, and, finally, implementing measures to evaluate learning.
  • Focus on Older Adult boxes highlight key aspects of nursing assessment and care for this population.
  • Key concepts neatly summarize the most important content for each chapter to help you review and evaluate learning.


  • UNIQUE! An ESL/Readability specialist has edited each chapter to streamline the text and improve readability.
  • UNIQUE! Companion CD, included with the text, provides you with interactive learning activities, searchable audio glossary, Spanish/English audio glossary, Butterfield's Fluids & Electrolytes Tutorial, test-taking skills, and NCLEX® exam-style review questions.
  • UNIQUE! Evidence Based Practice boxes summarize the results of a research study and describe the difference the study has made in nursing practice.
  • Evidence-Based Practice chapter helps you understand how nursing research serves as the basis for determining best practice, and the critical importance of this continually evolving dynamic.
  • UNIQUE! Surviving Cancer chapter prepares you to address the unique health care needs of patients who have survived cancer, but still face the physical and emotional after-effects of the illness and its therapy.
  • NCLEX® examination-style review questions for each chapter include new alternate-item format questions, as well as rationales for all answer choices.
  • Delegation coverage is enhanced, noting which skills can and cannot be delegated, and indicating related tasks that should be delegated. To help you apply this information, many chapters incorporate delegation considerations into the chapter case study and address them in the critical thinking and NCLEX® exam-style review questions.
  • Nursing Assessment Questions boxes help you learn to effectively phrase questions for clients.
  • Expanded coverage of informatics familiarizes you with the use of information technology in documenting care and researching best practices.
  • UNIQUE! Critical Thinking in Practice sections at the end of each chapter provide questions that require you to apply knowledge, often to the case study detailed in the chapter's care plan.
  • New Safe Patient Handling Guidelines are included in the Safety chapter.
  • NOC outcomes, as well as NIC interventions, are incorporated in care plans to reflect the standard used by institutions nationwide.
  • Key terms are conveniently placed at the beginning of each chapter and include page references where definitions can be found.
  • The companion Evolve website offers free downloadable skills video clips and audio chapter summaries.

Customer Reviews


Mosby should take no pride in this work......... (2009-05-12)
This edition has a gross amount of errors, they really should be embarrassed. even the cd has an large amount of errors. i Question if someone even bothered to go through this and check for errors. .................


Typos, errors, verbal mush... (2009-02-16)
Potter and Perry's 7th edition is chock-full of errors in the following areas (and I have only been reading it for a month):
1) minor typos throughout the book
2) incorrect answers to the NCLEX-style questions at the ends of the chapters and on the included CD ROM.
3) errors mentioned by other critics, e.g., regarding insulin action time, are still present in this printing that is copyrighted 2009. (I waited to buy this new printing of the 7th edition as I had hoped the errors other critics had noted would be corrected.

Additionally, the writing is verbose, disorganized, and lacking in important details. In the month I have been reading this book, I have found myself turning to other sources for more concise information, e.g., Lehne for drug metabolism, Saunder's NCLEX Review for acid-base and electrolyte coverage (I also like Lewis better for that, too), etc.

I just posted a negative review for Lewis' Medical Surgical Nursing, in which I just found a content error. What is the deal with these nursing textbooks having so many errors? Hmm...one connection is Mosby Elsevier - the publishers...


Excellent Product - Just as Described (2009-02-10)
This book was brand-new, just as described. Correct edition and publisher. Also arrived on time.


Great Textbook! (2008-11-09)
This is most definitely a wonderful textbook for nursing students. It is easy to read, breaks up the reading material so it does not seem so monotonous, and it has and extensive amount of tables, graphs, diagrams, and examples that make the reading information much easier to understand. I would recommend this book to nursing students and instructors alike!


Helps with studies (2008-10-17)
This book definitely helps study for exams and gives good ways to learn new views on the topics!! The only thing I do no like is that it does not provide answers to the questions so you can check your answer.

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