<P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>The state-of-the-art concept-based, student-centered introduction to nursing: first of two volumes, focused on 30 essential concepts associated with patients' psychosocial and reproductive concerns; with the nurse's professional domain; and with the nurse's roles and responsibilities in the broader healthcare system.</B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Today, nurses must be able to transfer their knowledge to new situations, and stay current with new disorders, treatments, and evidence-based practice. <B> <I>Nursing: A Concept–Based Approach to Learning, Volume II, Second Edition </I> </B>will help them achieve all these goals. Its concept-based approach requires students to participate actively, assume more responsibility for their knowledge, integrate concepts, apply information, and use clinical reasoning. Instead of memorizing thousands of alterations, students gain in-depth knowledge of selected alterations, and learn how to apply that knowledge as new challenges and client presentations come their way. The second of two volumes, this fully-updated Volume II focuses on 30 crucial concepts every nurse needs to master. It begins with several Psychosocial Modules covering addiction, cognition, culture/diversity, development, family, grief/loss, mood/affect, self, spirituality, stress/coping, and violence. After focusing on reproduction, it turns to the nursing domain, covering assessment, caring interventions, clinical decision making, collaboration, communication, care management, professional behaviors, and client teaching/learning. Finally, it turns to the nurse's broader roles, focusing on accountability, advocacy, evidence-based practice, healthcare systems, health policy, informatics, legal issues, quality improvement, and safety. The text's 30 concepts are illuminated with over 80 exemplars covering the entire lifespan.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Teaching and Learning Experience</B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">This concept-based, student-centered text will help nurses master essential concepts of nursing, and apply critical thinking to deepen and extend this knowledge throughout their nursing careers. </P> <UL> <LI> <B>Concept-based approach helps students synthesize today's most important nursing concepts, and extend their knowledge as new evidence and standards of practice arise: </B>Replaces rote memorization with a deeper understanding of the most crucial concepts, supported with exceptionally relevant and useful examples, and the critical thinking skills needed to extend them</LI> <LI> <B>Up-to-date, thorough coverage of 30 crucial concepts every nurse should understand:</B> Focuses on psychosocial and reproductive issues, on the nurse's role within the nursing domain, and on the nurse's broader roles and responsibilities within the healthcare system</LI> <LI> <B>Multiple pedagogical features to promote more effective learning: </B>State-of-the-art teaching features make key concepts more accessible and intuitively understandable</LI> </UL>