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, health 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.

这本市场导向性教材具有引人入胜的、清晰的写作风格，从而使读者易于掌握日常各种护理部门中所需要的基本护理概念和技巧。本书介绍了护理过程体系、健康促进焦点，注重评判性思维，并就患者教育和交流问题进行全面描述，从而为您的护理教育打下了强有力的基础。书中的全彩插图、临床思维练习与实例有助于您强化和应用基本的护理概念。

* 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 health 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

* 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