• PowerPoint presentations assist you in integrating the textbook with your students’ classroom experience, via either handouts or slide shows.
• A robust test generator of NCLEX-style questions makes it easy for you to put together tests to assess your students’ understanding.
• Learning Objectives for each chapter provide a valuable checklist for assessing student mastery of key content.
• Answers to Questions in the Book are provided for your convenience.
• A complete image bank enhances lecture and exam preparation.
• Journal Articles offer access to research available in LWW journals.
• Skills Checklists help you evaluate your students’ mastery of skills.

• Watch & View Video Clips reinforce skills from the textbook and appeal to visual and auditory learners.
• Practice & Learn Activities present case scenarios with interactive exercises and questions to help students apply what they have learned.
• Concepts in Action Animations bring concepts to life and enhance student comprehension.
• Learning Objectives for each chapter provide an outline of key content that must be mastered.
• Skills Checklists help students evaluate their mastery of skills.
• Journal Articles offer access to current research available in LWW journals.
• Web Resources direct students to excellent sources of additional

Unit 1: Knowing
Chapter  1: An Introduction to Canadian Nursing
Chapter 2: Health Care in Canada and Issues of Health-Care Reform
Chapter 3: Complementary and alternative medicine: Health and healing for patients and nurses
Chapter 4: Nursing as a regulated profession:  Standards of practice
Chapter 5: Health care and the law in Canada
Chapter 6: Nursing organizations: Nursing leadership in action
Chapter 7: The Journey From Student to Graduate Nurse
 
Unit 2: Thinking
Chapter 8: Health, wellness, and illness
Chapter 9: Ethics and integrity in practice: Moral dilemmas and moral issues
Chapter 10: The nursing process in the 21st century
Chapter 11: Nursing Theory and Theories Used in Nursing
Chapter 12: Nursing research and evidence-informed practice
Chapter 13: Culture and cultural safety: Beyond cultural inventories
Chapter 14: Improving Patient and Nurse Safety:  Learning From Past Experiences
Chapter 15: Educative nursing practice: A role for professional nurses
Chapter 16: Ways of Thinking: Critical Thinking in Nursing
Chapter 17: Transforming Nursing Education through simulation
Chapter 18: Family Nursing and Community Health Nursing
 
Unit 3: Being
Chapter 19: Principles of asepsis
Chapter 20: Health assessment across the lifespan
Chapter 21: Measuring Vital Signs
Chapter 22: Principles and practice of medication administration
Chapter 23: Effective documentation
Chapter 24: Informatics, e-technologies, and nursing
Chapter 25: Reflection and reflexivity: On being a nurse
 
Unit 4: Interacting
Chapter 26: Communication: At the heart of nursing practice
Chapter 27: Addressing developmental needs across the lifespan
Chapter 28: Fostering a positive self-concept
Chapter 29: Patient hygiene
Chapter 30: Creating comfort and managing pain
Chapter 31: Balancing activity and rest
Chapter 32: Oxygenation
Chapter 33: Supporting fluid and electrolyte balance
Chapter 34: Ensuring nutrition
Chapter 35: Supporting elimination
Chapter 36: Skin care
 
Unit 5: Understanding
Chapter 37: Immigrant Canadians
Chapter 38: Vulnerable populations and nursing: Vulnerability as a health equity concern
Chapter 39: Aboriginal people and nursing
Chapter 40: Spirituality and Nursing: Presence and Promise
Chapter 41: Nursing as lifelong learning