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Volume 1: Theory, Concepts, and Applications

Toward Thinking Like a Nurse

• Each chapter starts with Learning Outcomes – a checklist of what your students should know once they've completed the chapter.
  
• Meet Your Patient, also at the opening of each chapter, introduces your students to the patient they will follow and whose experiences illustrate the principles presented throughout the chapter, thus capturing their interest with real-life scenarios.
  
• Chapters are divided into two sections. Theoretical Knowledge – Knowing Why and Practical Knowledge – Knowing How reflect how information is communicated in real life and enable your students to focus on just the "why" or the "how." This is where the text's conversational tone is truly evident – the authors sound as if they are talking to your students rather than lecturing them. Headings (often phrased as questions that highlight students' concerns about the information), bulleted lists, boxes, and figures break up the text and make it more visually engaging.
  
• Care Plans are diagramed for visual learning as Care Maps.

Links That Help Your Students Think Like Nurses

• Icons meticulously incorporated throughout the text indicate cross references between the "theory, concepts, and applications" in Volume 1 and the "thinking and doing" in Volume 2.
• Critical Thinking questions ask your students to apply what they've just learned to the patient introduced earlier in the chapter, to a new patient, or to their own lives.
• Chapters include Knowledge Checks, questions designed to allow your students to check their recall of the material they've just read and that are cross referenced to the corresponding answers on the Electronic Study Guide on CD-ROM.
• Toward Evidence Based Practice boxes describe important research that applies to the topic at hand and ask your students to consider higher cognitive level questions about the study or studies. Suggested responses appear on the Electronic Study Guide.
• Includes care plans in both conventional and concept mapping formats that incorporate NIC and NOC as well as NANDA.
• Boxes that focus on Home Care, Teaching for Self Care, Complementary and Alternative Modalities (CAM), and Critical Aspects of Procedures link Volume 1 with the full-scale procedures presented in Volume 2.

Volume 2: Thinking and Doing

Toward Performing Like a Nurse

• Each chapter in Volume 2 begins with an Overview of the Volume 1 chapter, to refresh your students' memory of the content.
• Thinking Critically About is a set of exercises that require students to use the information they learned in Volume 1. A summary of critical thinking steps is presented in the back of this volume for easy reference by students.
• A unique feature of Volume 2 is the extended case study, Caring for the Garcias, which illustrates and integrates content throughout the whole volume. The Garcia family and their friends and colleagues allow your students to see the human costs and benefits of the procedures they are learning.
• Each Procedure is presented step by step, with rationales interspersed so your students better understand real-world practice. Core procedures as well as variants and alternatives are described. Every procedure is appropriately illustrated with photographs, and equipment, delegation, assessments, evaluation, documentation, home care, and patient teaching are all addressed throughout.
• Each chapter concludes with What Are the Main Points in This Chapter, a summary of the most essential concepts that students should retain. Knowledge Maps diagram the content in the non-procedural chapters.
• Universal procedure steps are presented on the inside back cover of Volume 2, and every procedure begins with a restatement of the critical aspects of the procedure as also shown in Volume 1. For chapters that don't have any procedures, there is a knowledge map – a concept map version of the corresponding chapter's Volume 1 content.

Electronic Study Guide

• Learning Outcomes
• Supplemental Materials
• Knowledge Check Response Sheet
• Critical Thinking Response Sheet (for the questions in Volume 1)
• Thinking Critically About...Response Sheet (for the exercises Volume 2)
• Mastery Exercises
• Knowledge Checks Answers
• Mastery Exercises Answers
• Toward Evidence Based Practice Suggested Responses
• Reading More About ... (suggested readings)
• Resources for Health Professionals
• Bonus Chapter on the Canadian Health Care Delivery System (with all the aforementioned bulleted features)

• Knowledge Map (concept map version of the chapter content)
• Care Plan (supplemental to what's in the book)
• Care Map (concept map version of the care plan)

• Procedure Checklists
• Selected heart, lung, bowel, and vascular sounds, including blood pressure
• Tutor Test Bank for students (over 200 items – no overlap with instructors' test bank – can be used to self-assess as well as test)
• Dosage Calculator
• Glossary
• "Help" file