Welcome to Nursing Refresher. As the healthcare landscape evolves, so too does the need for nurses to stay current with advancements, best practices, and foundational concepts. Whether you’re re-entering the nursing field after a hiatus or seeking to enhance your existing skills, this book is designed to be your comprehensive guide to refreshing and expanding your nursing expertise.
In the fast-paced world of healthcare, it’s crucial to maintain and build upon your clinical competencies. This refresher course aims to bridge the gap between past experience and present-day practices, ensuring that you are well-prepared to deliver exceptional patient care. The content is carefully curated to address key areas of nursing practice, including updated clinical guidelines, emerging technologies, and evidence-based practices.
“Nursing Refresher” is structured to provide you with:
Current Knowledge and Skills: Each chapter offers a thorough review of essential nursing principles, integrating the latest advancements and guidelines to keep you at the forefront of your practice.
Practical Application: Real-life scenarios and case studies are included to help you apply theoretical knowledge to practical situations, enhancing your problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Interactive Learning: Engaging exercises, self-assessment quizzes, and reflection questions are designed to reinforce learning and ensure that you grasp key concepts effectively.
Resourceful Tools: Helpful summaries, quick-reference guides, and checklists are provided for easy access to critical information, making it easier to integrate your learning into daily practice.
As you embark on this refresher course, remember that nursing is not just a profession but a commitment to making a difference in the lives of patients. This book is more than a review tool; it is a resource to reinvigorate your passion for nursing, enhance your skills, and empower you to provide high-quality care.
Thank you for choosing “Nursing Refresher” as your guide. We are excited to support your journey toward professional excellence and to help you thrive in the dynamic world of healthcare.
This book is a combination of online resources that introduces the scope of nursing practice, various communication techniques, and caring for diverse clients. The nursing process is used as a framework for providing nursing care for the following concepts: safety, oxygenation, comfort, spiritual well-being, grief and loss, sleep and rest, mobility, nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, and elimination. Nursing care for clients with integumentary disorders and cognitive or sensory impairments is also discussed.
This book is available for free online and can also be downloaded in multiple formats for offline use. The online version is required for interaction with adaptive learning activities included in each chapter.
The following video provides a quick overview of how to navigate the online version.
This book is part of the Open RN© Nursing OER textbook series, originally funded by a $2.5 million Open Textbook Pilot grant from the Department of Education with sustainability funded by WisTech Open. Read about other OER textbooks available on the Open RN and the WisTech Open websites.
Warm regards,
Dr. Amy Ertwine
