A user-friendly, interactive text for beginning students, focusing on critical thinking as it is used with the nursing process, and featuring numerous exercises, checklists, and case studies, plus space for writing answers and reflections. Parts I and II overview and detail the nursing process, and Part III focuses on communicating the thinking and nursing process. Part IV applies concepts in a patient situation. This second edition contains a new chapter on working with patients to design care, and integrates information on nursing interventions and outcomes classification. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR