Includes bibliographical references and index.

In the 8th edition, Applying Nursing Process continues to apply nursing process in ways that are relevant to the changes occurring in health care today. This text addresses nurses' increased responsibilities related to both independent and multidisciplinary care and help readers develop critical thinking and clinical reasoning. Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFerve knows that the principles of the nursing process are the building blocks for all care models, and throughout the book she focuses on how to "think like a nurse."