Foundations and Adult Health Nursing

Build the nursing knowledge and skills you need to care for patients of all ages!Combining two leading LPN/LVN textbooks into one volume, Foundations and Adult Health Nursing, 10th Edition, covers the fundamental skills and medical-surgical content essential to providing quality care for patients across the lifespan, including pediatric, maternity, adult, and older adult patients.Case studies provide practice with critical thinking and clinical judgment, and Next-Generation NCLEX®-format questions help you apply theory to practice. Complete coverage presents all the content needed throughout the LPN/LVN programStep-by-step instructions for more than 100 skills show clearly defined nursing actions along with the rationales for eachClear, easy-to-understand coverage of skills across the lifespan includes maternity, pediatrics, adults, and older adultsNursing process is applied to the discussion of disorders and is summarized at the end of each chapterNursing care plans use a case-study f