F.A. Davis Company

Accelerate your mastery of the important knowledge, skills, and attitudes you need to succeed as an RN. You’ll find coverage that encompasses simple solutions to the most common challenges faced in the workplace.

• Coach Consult is the voice of an expert at your side, reminding you of important concepts, instilling professional pride, and summarizing take-home messages.
• Clinical Alerts focus on serious or life-threatening signs and symptoms and offer important practice points.
• Evidence for Practice boxes highlight valid research and other accepted forms of evidence that support nursing process.
• PEAK Performance Boxes identify relevant strategies that promote the Purpose, Evidence, Action, and/or Knowledge needed to achieve the desired outcomes for patients.
• Clinical Voices present case studies.

Tab 1.    Providing a Framework to Accelerate Your Transition to Practicing RN
Tab 2.    Pathophysiology and Pharmacology: Making Connections and Mastering Dosage Calculations
Tab 3.    Physical Assessment Skills and Findings: Firming the Foundation of Nursing Process
Tab 4.    Diagnostics: Understanding and Monitoring Common Lab Tests
Tab 5.    Patient Care: Reviewing Critical Skills, Keeping Patients Safe, and Managing Machines
Tab 6.    Shift Planning: Conquering Shift Organization and Prioritization
Tab 7.    Communication: Mastering Collaboration, Delegation, and Documentation
Tab 8.    Critical Nursing Actions: Responding to Key Situations
Tab 9.    Ethics: Addressing Dilemmas in Professional Practice
Tab 10.  Next Steps: Advancing in Your Career