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• Explores the full-spectrum nursing model of thinking, doing, and caring and reinforces the model with critical-thinking questions and exercises in every chapter to help prepare students for practice.
• Uses multiple case studies per chapter to bring nursing theory to life and explain the nurse’s role in today’s complex healthcare system.
• Emphasizes the important aspects of safe and effective care to ensure better patient outcomes.
• Presents illustrated, step-by-step procedures with rationales that deliver all the information students need for the skills lab or clinical.
• Promotes effective care planning with care plans and concept care maps as well as NANDA, NIC, and NOC.
• Describes the research evidence related to the chapter topic and encourages further study.

Davis Advantage—Personalized Learning Plans for Students

• Creates personalized learning plans that ensure students master the content.
• Charts a path for each student to follow based on their strengths and weaknesses.
• Offers multiple paths to learning success through an immersive, interactive, multi-media experience with a wealth of animation videos, case studies, dynamic exercises and quizzes.
• Tracks each student’s progress every step of the way; students know exactly how they’re doing and where they need to focus their studies.

Davis Edge- Online Personalized Quizzing

• Features progressive quizzing, customized to each student’s knowledge level, that challenges them to reach higher levels of understanding, and identifies the areas in which they need additional review.
• Provides comprehensive rationales for correct and incorrect answers that teach students how to analyze questions critically—ensuring they understand why they answered a question correctly, and when they don’t, how to improve.
• Includes self-grading that provides immediate feedback as each quiz is completed.
• Offers test-taking strategies and tips to prepare students for course exams, ATI, HESI, and NCLEX^® exams.
• Highlights alternate-format questions to build confidence for these more difficult question types, including “select all that apply” and “ordered response.”
• Lets students select practice quizzes by specific topics or concepts with a quiz builder.
• Monitors students’ overall progress and identifies their strengths and weaknesses in the Student Success Center.