Fundamental Nursing

This is a substantially revised edition of the 1985 Nursing: humane scientific health care of Uys and Mulder. It is now a textbook for a first-year nursing student and incorporates the following: A foundation for the basic four elements of nursing; general nursing: basic nursing care in terms of activities of daily living; midwifery: growth and development, nutritional aspects and family assessment and intervention; community health nursing: assessment and intervention in terms of communities, as well as environmental health; mental health nursing: psychosocial aspects of nursing; care of individual, family and community, care of not just individual patients; activities of living of healthy people and the preventative and promotive aspects of basic nursing care, not just sick people and their needs; district health and the primary health care.