This comprehensive nursing fundamentals text emphasizes clinical decision making
and scientific research within the context of an evolving health care delivery
system as the foundation for contemporary nursing practice. This interactive
approach offers an alternative framework to the nursing process by focusing on
the "real world" issues that affect clinical decision-making in nursing
including cultural, socioeconomic, ethical/legal, and financial considerations.
A practical four-part organization facilitates the transfer of classroom
knowledge to actual clinical practice by first addressing context, then process,
content, and special considerations.