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This market-leading textbook offers an engaging format and clear writing style that make it easy to master the basic nursing concepts and skills you need to practice in a variety of care settings. Its nursing process framework, promotion focus, emphasis on critical thinking, and thorough coverage of communication and patient teaching provide a strong foundation for your nursing education. Full-color illustrations, critical thinking exercises, and practical examples help you strengthen and apply your knowledge of essential nursing concepts. * More than 500 full-color illustrations ― including 50 new to this edition ― highlight and explain key concepts presented in the text. * Concepts and skills are presented from simplest to most complex to help you gradually build your knowledge and learn more easily. * A Companion CD-ROM includes audio clips, an audio glossary, video clips, 3-D animations, English-Spanish phrases, NCLEX®-PN Examination-style review questions, and more. * Theory and Clinical Practice Objectives introduce you to the concepts you’ll learn in each chapter. * Key Terms with phonetic pronunciations familiarize you with the language of nursing and care. * Overview of Structure and Function provides a brief review of essential anatomy and physiology related to specific body systems, with a special section on aging. * The nursing process is emphasized throughout in Application of the Nursing Process sections and serves as the framework for Skills and Nursing Care Plans. * Think Critically About… boxes encourage you to synthesize information and apply concepts beyond the of the chapter. * Approximately 80 Skills provide illustrated step-by-step instructions for performing key nursing procedures, with clear actions and rationales and Critical Thinking Questions. * Approximately 50 Steps present abbreviated versions of additional skills in a quick-reference action/rationale format. * Approximately 20 Nursing Care Plans provide examples for planning care and encourage you to think critically and follow the nursing process. * Critical Thinking Activities at the end of each chapter allow you to apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to specific clinical scenarios. * Elder Care Points introduce you to the unique care issues that affect older adults. * Promotion Points address and disease prevention, including diet, infection control, and more. * Communication Cues feature sample dialogues and therapeutic communication techniques to help you build a positive rapport with patients. * Concept s help you visualize how the multiple nursing diagnoses, s, and side effects for specific disorders relate to each other. * Home Care boxes provide guidelines for adapting nursing skills and techniques for use in the home setting. * Patient Teaching boxes offer step-by-step instructions for patients and their families regarding proper post-hospital care. * NCLEX-PN® Exam Style Review Questions at the end of each chapter include alternate item-format questions to prepare you for the exam. * Helpful appendixes offer quick access to essential facts and information in the clinical setting. * Assignment Considerations boxes will cover situations in which the RN delegates to the LPN/LVN or when the LPN/LVN assigns tasks to nurse assistants, patient care techs, and other unlicensed assistive personnel * Clinical Cues provide guidance and advice related to the nursing care under discussion * Safety Alert boxes highlight specific danger or dangers to patients related to clinical care * 50 new illustrations and photos have been added to this edition to aid visual learners * 5 Skills have been added to this edition, giving deWit a total of 80 skills covered * 5 Steps have been added to the 44 in the current edition