Nursing Skills Online 5.0 for Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing , 7th Edition

Description

Develop your ability to analyse situations and provide effective nursing care! Corresponding to Potter and Perry's Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing, 7th Edition, Nursing Skills Online 5.0 lets you review procedures before you perform them in the clinical setting. Developed for Canadian health care practice, this course includes 19 modules with realistic, case-based lessons that focus on the skills that are more difficult to master or pose the greatest risk to patient safety. Information is chunked into brief, easy-to-digest sections and paired with interactive exercises, videos, reading assignments, and self-assessment tests for more dynamic learning. Feedback from hundreds of students indicates that they value the time spent using Nursing Skills Online and credit it with helping them improve their grades!

Key Features

• Case-based format takes a problem-oriented approach to help you think critically and gain exposure to real-life patient scenarios, featuring 66 skills, 1,000 activities, more than 1,500 images, and 189 video clips and animations.
• Easy-to-read format uses bullets and small learning segments to make it easier for you to absorb and retain information.
• Learning activities help you develop skills in the application of information, critical thinking, decision-making, and evaluation.
• Full-colour photos show nursing techniques and equipment.
• Objectives, equipment lists, and delegation responsibilities are presented at the beginning of each lesson to focus your study.
• Self-assessment exercises allow you to test your knowledge of key concepts and include immediate feedback with correct answers and rationales.
• Printable procedure guidelines allow you to study and review anytime, anywhere.
• Lesson post-tests provide an immediate score upon your completion of each test, and reinforce your understanding with rationales for correct responses.
• Repeatable exams allow you to retake lesson exams, as desired, until you are confident of your mastery.
• Patient-Centred Care screens address patients of different cultures and ages during performance of the skill.
• Teamwork and Collaboration screens include information on delegation as well as cooperation with other health care professionals such as physical therapists, nutritionists, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists.
• Evidence-Based Practice icons link to the findings of recently published research articles.

New to this Edition

• NEW! Updated content reflects the changes in the new 7th edition of Potter & Perry's Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing.
• NEW! Video clips from the new Canadian Clinical Skills: Essentials Collection demonstrate updated nursing techniques and procedures.
• NEW! Next Generation NCLEX-RN^®-style case studies are included for each module, and Clinical Judgement-based skills evaluations are provided for RN students.

Companion Products

• Nursing Skills Online 5.0 for Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing (User Guide and Access Code), 7th Edition

Table of Contents

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Author Information

By Barbara J. Astle, RN, PhD, FCAN, Professor, School of Nursing; Director, MSN Program, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia; Wendy Duggleby, RN, PhD, Professor/ATS Lecturer; Associate Dean Research and Nursing Research Chair Aging and Quality of Life; Director Innovations in Seniors Care Research Unit, Faculty of Nursing Level 3, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta ; Patricia A. Potter, RN, PhD, FAAN, Director of Research,Patient Care Services,Barnes-Jewish Hospital,St. Louis, Missouri ; Anne G. Perry, RN, MSN, EdD, FAAN, Professor Emerita,School of Nursing,Southern Illinois University,Edwardsville, Illinois ; Patricia A. Stockert, RN, BSN, MS, PhD, President of the College, Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing, Peoria, Illinois. and Amy Hall, RN, BSN, MS, Professor and Dean, School of Nursing, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana