Unit One Personal Health Promotion

  Life Expectancy, Health Expectancy

  Defining Health and Illness

  Health Promotion and Illness Prevention

Unit Two Effective Interaction and Communication

  A Nurse's StorymDealing with a Hostile Patient

  Interacting with Patient and Family

  Effective Verbal Communication

Unit Three The Miraculous Power of Hormones

  A Little Person Teaches a Big Lesson

  Thyroid Gland and Thyroxin

  Type I Diabetes

Unit Four  Cancer: Understanding Your Risks

  A Nurse's Story: Face the Ultimate Reality

  Benign and Malignant Tumors

  Acute Leukemia

Unit Five Using Proper Measures to Aid Sleep Therapies

  Get a Good Night's Sleep

  Sleep Therapy

  More About Sleep Therapies

Unit Six Special Needs of the Older Patients

  A Nurse's Story: Losing Control

  Taking Care of older Adults' Special Physiological

  Needs

  Psychosocial Changes in Older Adults

Unit Seven  Doing the Best for the Babies

  Handling the Baby and Caring for the Child

  Children's Nursing as a Career

  Bathing an Infant

Unit Eight Challenges in New Areas of Nursing

  A Nurse's Story: Miraculous Change

  Intellectual Disability Nursing and Psychiatric

  Nursing

  A Psychiatric Case and Its Assessment

Unit Nine Preparing the Patient for Surgery

  Surgery and Anesthesia

  Preoperative Physical Preparation

  Routine Procedures on the Day of Surgery

Unit Ten Ensuring Correct Administration of Medications

  A Nurse's Story m the Unfolding of a Busy Day

  Pharmacokinetics

  Routes of Administration

Unit Eleven Being on Guard Against latrogenic Disorders

  latrogenic Disease

  Asepsis and Nosocomial Infections

  Microbes and Public Health

Unit Twelve Creating an Effective Health Care System

  An Attractive Option: Travel Nursing

  An Overview of American Health Care System

  Selecting Health-Care Agencies, Programs, and

  Facilities

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