Biography

Patricia is the former Director of Research & Patient Care Services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. She retired in 2017 with more than 45 years of nursing experience. She is the co-author of the leading textbook, Fundamentals of Nursing now in its 10th edition. She’s authored fundamentals textbooks for the last 30 years, providing comprehensive coverage on the foundation of nursing, from basic concepts to essential skills.

Over the years she’s collected many accolades, including the 2017 Legend in Nursing award and 2016 Nurse of the Year – Research from Missouri March of Dimes, and the 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award from Saint Louis University, School of Nursing. She also founded the “Nurses for Ferguson” scholarship for high school graduates from the Ferguson-Florissant school district who have been accepted by a school or college of nursing. In 2003 she was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Books by Patricia A. Potter

Skills Performance Checklists
Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques
2024
Potter and Perry's Canadian Fu
Potter and Perry's Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing
2023
Potter and Perry's Canadian Fu
Potter and Perry's Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing - BInder Ready
2023
Potter and Perry's Pocket Guide to Nursing Skills and Procedures
Potter and Perry's Pocket Guide to Nursing Skills and Procedures
2023
Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques
Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques
2021
Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques-Text and Checklist Package
Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques-Text and Checklist Package
2021
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text and Study Guide Package
2020
Nursing Skills Online Version 4. 0 for Fundamentals of Nursing (Access Code and Textbook Package)
Nursing Skills Online Version 4. 0 for Fundamentals of Nursing (Access Code and Textbook Package)
2020
Canadian Clinical Nursing Skil
Canadian Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques + Nursing Skills Online 4. 0 for Canadian Nursing Skills and Techniques Package
2019
Canadian Clinical Nursing Skil
Canadian Clinical Nursing Skills And Techniques E-book
2019
Canadian Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques, 1e
Canadian Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques, 1e
2019
Nursing Interventions and Clin
Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills
2019
Canadian Fundamentals of Nursi
Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing + Nursing Skills Online 4. 0 Package
2018
Essentials for Nursing Practice - Text and Study Guide Package
Essentials for Nursing Practice - Text and Study Guide Package
2018
Study Guide for Essentials for Nursing Practice
Study Guide for Essentials for Nursing Practice
2018
Skills Performance Checklists
Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques - Elsevier e-Book on VitalSource (Retail Access Card)
2017
Clinical Companion for Fundame
Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing - E-Book
2016
Fundamentals of Nursing - Else
Fundamentals of Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card)
2016
Fundamentals of Nursing - Single-Volume Text and Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing Package
Fundamentals of Nursing - Single-Volume Text and Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing Package
2016
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text and Virtual Clinical Excursions 3. 0 Package
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text and Virtual Clinical Excursions 3. 0 Package
2016
Fundamentals of Nursing Textbo
Fundamentals of Nursing Textbook 9e and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills Student Version Online (Access Card) 4e Package
2016
Nursing Skills Online Version 3. 0 for Fundamentals of Nursing (Access Code and Textbook Package)
Nursing Skills Online Version 3. 0 for Fundamentals of Nursing (Access Code and Textbook Package)
2016
Virtual Clinical Excursions Online and Print Workbook for Fundamentals of Nursing
Virtual Clinical Excursions Online and Print Workbook for Fundamentals of Nursing
2016
Canadian Fundamentals of Nursi
Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing + Nursing Skills Online 3. 0 Package
2014
Elsevier Adaptive Learning for Essentials for Nursing Practice (Acces Code)
Elsevier Adaptive Learning for Essentials for Nursing Practice (Acces Code)
2014
Essentials for Nursing Practic
Essentials for Nursing Practice
2014
Essentials for Nursing Practice - Text and Adaptive Learning Package
Essentials for Nursing Practice - Text and Adaptive Learning Package
2014
Mosby's Pocket Guide to Nursin
Mosby's Pocket Guide to Nursing Skills and Procedures
2014
Nursing Skills Online Version
Nursing Skills Online Version 3.0 For Potter Essentials For Nursing Practice User Guide And Access Code
2014
Virtual Clinical Excursions On
Virtual Clinical Excursions Online and Print Workbook for Essentials for Nursing Practice
2014
Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques - Text and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills - Student Version DVD 4e Package
Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques - Text and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills - Student Version DVD 4e Package
2013
Fundamentals of Nursing Textbo
Fundamentals of Nursing Textbook 8e and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills Student Version Online (Access Card) 4e Package
2013
Fundamentals of Nursing Textbo
Fundamentals of Nursing Textbook and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills Student Version DVD 4e Package
2013
Nursing Skills Online Version 3.0 for Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques
Nursing Skills Online Version 3.0 for Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques
2013
Nursing Skills Online Version
Nursing Skills Online Version 3.0 for Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques (Access Code and Textbook Package)
2013
Nursing Skills Online Version 3.0 for Fundamentals of Nursing
Nursing Skills Online Version 3.0 for Fundamentals of Nursing
2013
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text and Clinical Companion Package
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text and Clinical Companion Package
2012
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills - Student Version DVD 3.0 Package
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills - Student Version DVD 3.0 Package
2012
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text and Simulation Learning System Package
2012
Nursing Skills Online Version
Nursing Skills Online Version 2.0 for Fundamentals of Nursing (Access Code)
2012
Simulation Learning System for
Simulation Learning System for Potter
2012
Virtual Clinical Excursionsgeneral Hospital For Potter And Perry Stockert And Hall Fundamentals Of Nursing 8th Edition
Virtual Clinical Excursionsgeneral Hospital For Potter And Perry Stockert And Hall Fundamentals Of Nursing 8th Edition
2012
Basic Nursing - Text and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills
Basic Nursing - Text and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills
2011
Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills - Text and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills - Student Version DVD 3.0 Package
Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills - Text and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills - Student Version DVD 3.0 Package
2011
Nursing Skills Online 2.0 for Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills
Nursing Skills Online 2.0 for Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills
2011
Nursing Skills Online Version 2.0  for Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills
Nursing Skills Online Version 2.0 for Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills
2011
Basic Nursing - Text and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills - Student Version DVD 3. 0 Package
Basic Nursing - Text and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills - Student Version DVD 3. 0 Package
2010
Basic Nursing Study Guide Essentials For Practice
Basic Nursing Study Guide Essentials For Practice
2010
Fundamentals of Nursing Enhanced Multi-Media Edition Textbook with FREE Clinical Companion and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills - Student Version DVD 3.0 Package
Fundamentals of Nursing Enhanced Multi-Media Edition Textbook with FREE Clinical Companion and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills - Student Version DVD 3.0 Package
2010
Fundamentals of Nursing Enhanc
Fundamentals of Nursing Enhanced Multi-Media Edition Textbook with FREE Clinical Companion and Study Guide and Skills Performance Checklists Package
2010
Fundamentals of Nursing Enhanced Multi-Media Edition Textbook with FREE Clinical Companion and Virtual Clinical Excursions Package
Fundamentals of Nursing Enhanced Multi-Media Edition Textbook with FREE Clinical Companion and Virtual Clinical Excursions Package
2010
Fundamentals Of Nursing Enhanced Multimedia Edition Package
Fundamentals Of Nursing Enhanced Multimedia Edition Package
2010
Nursing Skills Online Version
Nursing Skills Online Version 2.0 for Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques (Access Code and Textbook Package)
2010
Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing
Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing
2009
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text with Study Guide and Skills Performance Checklists Package
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text with Study Guide and Skills Performance Checklists Package
2009
Nursing Skills Online for Cana
Nursing Skills Online for Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing - (User Guide and Access Code), 4th edition
2009
Nursing Skills Online for Clin
Nursing Skills Online for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques (Access Code and Textbook Package)
2009
Clinical Nursing Skills and Te
Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques - Text and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills - Student Version DVD 3. 0 Package
2008
Nursing Interventions and Clin
Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills - Text and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills - Student Version DVD 3. 0 Package
2008
Study Guide and Skills Performance Checklists for PotterPerry Fundamentals of Nursing
Study Guide and Skills Performance Checklists for PotterPerry Fundamentals of Nursing
2008
Virtual Clinical Excursions General Hospital For Potter And Perry Fundamentals Of Nursing 7th Edition
Virtual Clinical Excursions General Hospital For Potter And Perry Fundamentals Of Nursing 7th Edition
2008
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text with FREE Clinical Companion Package (Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process & Practice)
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text with FREE Clinical Companion Package (Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process & Practice)
2007
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text, Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions 7e and FREE Clinical Companion Package
2007
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text, Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROM - Student Version 2.0 and FREE Clinical Companion Package
2007
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text, Study Guide and FREE Clinical Companion Package
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text, Study Guide and FREE Clinical Companion Package
2007
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text, Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0 and FREE Clinical Companion Package
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text, Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0 and FREE Clinical Companion Package
2007
Mosby's Nursing Skills Quick Cards
Mosby's Nursing Skills Quick Cards
2007
Nursing Interventions & Clinic
Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills - Text & Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROMs Student Version 2.0 Package
2007
Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills - Text and Checklists Package
Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills - Text and Checklists Package
2007
Nursing Skills Online for Fund
Nursing Skills Online for Fundamentals of Nursing (User Guide, Access Code, Textbook and FREE Clinical Companion Package)
2007
Skills Performance Checklists for Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills (Skills Performance Checklists)
Skills Performance Checklists for Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills (Skills Performance Checklists)
2007
Basic Nursing - Text & Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, (7e) Nursing & Health Professions (6e) Package
Basic Nursing - Text & Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, (7e) Nursing & Health Professions (6e) Package
2006
Basic Nursing - Text & Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROM 2.0 - Student Version Package
Basic Nursing - Text & Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROM 2.0 - Student Version Package
2006
Basic Nursing - Text & Study G
Basic Nursing - Text & Study Guide Package
2006
Basic Nursing - Text, Study Guide, and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills - Student Version DVD 3. 0 Package
Basic Nursing - Text, Study Guide, and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills - Student Version DVD 3. 0 Package
2006
Basic Nursing and Virtual Clin
Basic Nursing and Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0 Package
2006
Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing - Text & Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions 7e Package
Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing - Text & Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions 7e Package
2006
Canadian Fundamentals of Nursi
Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing - Text and Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0 Package
2006
Mosby's Pocket Guide for Health Assessment
Mosby's Pocket Guide for Health Assessment
2006
Mosby's Pocket Guide to Basic Skills and Procedures (Nursing Pocket Guides)
Mosby's Pocket Guide to Basic Skills and Procedures (Nursing Pocket Guides)
2006
Nursing Skills Online for Basic Nursing
Nursing Skills Online for Basic Nursing
2006
Nursing Skills Online for Basi
Nursing Skills Online for Basic Nursing (User Guide, Access Code and Textbook Package)
2006
Nursing Skills Online for Cana
Nursing Skills Online for Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing (User Guide and Access Code), 3e
2006
Nursing Skills Online for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques (User Guide and Access Code)
Nursing Skills Online for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques (User Guide and Access Code)
2006
Nursing Skills Online for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques (User Guide, Access Code and Textbook Package)
Nursing Skills Online for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques (User Guide, Access Code and Textbook Package)
2006
Nursing Skills Online for Fundamentals of Nursing (User Guide, Access Code and Textbook Package)
Nursing Skills Online for Fundamentals of Nursing (User Guide, Access Code and Textbook Package)
2006
Nursing Skills Online for Fund
Nursing Skills Online for Fundamentals of Nursing (User Guide, Access Code, Textbook and Mosby's Nursing Skills CD - Student Version 2.0 Package)
2006
Nursing Skills Online for Fund
Nursing Skills Online for Fundamentals of Nursing with Other
2006
Nursing Skills Online for Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills (User Guide, Access Code and Textbook Package)
Nursing Skills Online for Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills (User Guide, Access Code and Textbook Package)
2006
Study Guide for Basic Nursing
Study Guide for Basic Nursing
2006
Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0 for Basic Nursing
Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0 for Basic Nursing
2006
Basic Nursing - Text, Virtual
Basic Nursing - Text, Virtual Clinical Excursions 1.0, Mosby's Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary and FREE Study Guide Package
2005
Basic Nursing 5e & Free Study
Basic Nursing 5e & Free Study Guide & Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, 7e Package
2005
Basic Nursing with CDROM and W
Basic Nursing with CDROM and Workbook
2005
Canadian Fundamentals of Nursi
Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing - Text & Arnold
2005
Canadian Fundamentals of Nursi
Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing - Text & Perry Clinical Skills 6e Package
2005
Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing - Text & Study Guide Package
Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing - Text & Study Guide Package
2005
Clinical Nursing Skills and Te
Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques - Text with Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROM Student Version
2005
Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques Text and Checklists Package
Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques Text and Checklists Package
2005
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text & Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0 Package
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text & Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0 Package
2005
Fundamentals of Nursing 6e & M
Fundamentals of Nursing 6e & Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, 7e Package
2005
Fundamentals of Nursing 6e and
Fundamentals of Nursing 6e and Virtual Clinical Excursions PKG
2005
Fundamentals of Nursing Book W
Fundamentals of Nursing Book With Cd-rom + Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary, 6e, Revised (2 Books With Cd-rom Package)
2005
Fundamentals of Nursing, Virtu
Fundamentals of Nursing, Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0, and Mosby's Dictionary Revised Package with CDROM
2005
Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROM
Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROM - Student Version 2.0
2005
Skills Performance Checklists
Skills Performance Checklists
2005
Soins infirmiers - manuel de base - Text, CD-ROM and Study Guide Package
Soins infirmiers - manuel de base - Text, CD-ROM and Study Guide Package
2005
Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.
Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0 Implementation Manual for Fundamentals of Nursing
2005
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text & Clinical Companion Package
Fundamentals of Nursing - Text & Clinical Companion Package
2004
Fundamentals of Nursing 5e - T
Fundamentals of Nursing 5e - Text, Virtual Clinical Excursions, Mosby Dictionary 6e, and FREE Just the Facts 3e Package
2004
Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROM
Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROM Student Version
2004
Basic Nursing & Miller-Keane E
Basic Nursing & Miller-Keane Encyclopedia Dictionary
2003
Basic Nursing 5e/Vce/Mosby's D
Basic Nursing 5e/Vce/Mosby's Dictionary 6e Package
2003
Fundamentals of Nursing 5e Tex
Fundamentals of Nursing 5e Text, Virtual Clinical Excursions for Fundamentals of Nursing 5e & Mosby
2003
Mosby's Advanced Nursing Skill
Mosby's Advanced Nursing Skills 2 CD-ROM Set
2003
Mosby's Basic Nursing Skills C
Mosby's Basic Nursing Skills CD-ROM
2003
Mosby's Intermediate Nursing S
Mosby's Intermediate Nursing Skills 3 CD-ROM Set
2003
Une ombre dans l'ile
Une ombre dans l'ile
2003
Virtual clinical excursions fo
Virtual clinical excursions for Potter & Perry: Basic nursing: a critical thinking approach
2003
Basic Nursing: A Critical Thinking Approach, 5E (Book with CD-ROM for Windows & Macintosh) + Miller-Keane: Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary, 6E (2 Books with CD-ROM, Package)
Basic Nursing: A Critical Thinking Approach, 5E (Book with CD-ROM for Windows & Macintosh) + Miller-Keane: Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary, 6E (2 Books with CD-ROM, Package)
2002
Body Mechanics And Exercise
Body Mechanics And Exercise
2002
Fundamentals of Nursing (Book with CD-ROM)
Fundamentals of Nursing (Book with CD-ROM)
2002
Fundamentals of Nursing, 5e (B
Fundamentals of Nursing, 5e (Book ) + Miller-Keane
2002
Im Paradies der Liebe
Im Paradies der Liebe
2002
Mosby's Nursing Skills Videos,
Mosby's Nursing Skills Videos, Intermediate Skills Set (Mosby's Nursing Skills Video)
2002
Mosby's Pocket Guide to Health Assessment
Mosby's Pocket Guide to Health Assessment
2002
Safety And Restraints
Safety And Restraints
2002
Virtual Clinical Excursions to Accompany Basic Nursing
Virtual Clinical Excursions to Accompany Basic Nursing
2002
Bathing (Mosby's Nursing Skill
Bathing (Mosby's Nursing Skills Videos)
2001
Fundamentals of Nursing with Electronic MH Collections + Mosby Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary, 6th Edition
Fundamentals of Nursing with Electronic MH Collections + Mosby Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary, 6th Edition
2001
Fundamentos de Enfermeria en 2 Vols
Fundamentos de Enfermeria en 2 Vols
2001
Mosby's Nursing Skills
Mosby's Nursing Skills
2001
Nutrition And Fluids
Nutrition And Fluids
2001
Personal Hygiene And Grooming
Personal Hygiene And Grooming (Mosby's Nursing Skills Videos)
2001
Preventing And Treating Pressu
Preventing And Treating Pressure Ulcers (Mosby's Nursing Skills Videos)
2001
The heart queen
The heart queen
2001
Enchaîné par l'amour
Enchaîné par l'amour
2000
Instructor's Resource Manual to Accompany Fundamentals of Nursing
Instructor's Resource Manual to Accompany Fundamentals of Nursing
2000
Basic Nursing, Computerized Te
Basic Nursing, Computerized Test Bank
1999
Home For Christmas  (Families Are Forever)
Home For Christmas (Families Are Forever)
1998
Canadian fundamentals of nursing
Canadian fundamentals of nursing
1997
Fundamentals of Nursing-Univer
Fundamentals of Nursing-University of Maine
1997
Potter and Perry's foundations
Potter and Perry's foundations in nursing theory and practice
1995
Valoracion De La Salud
Valoracion De La Salud
1995
GREATEST GIFT, THE
GREATEST GIFT, THE
1991
Pocket guide to physical assessment
Pocket guide to physical assessment
1990
Pocket nurse guide to physical assessment
Pocket nurse guide to physical assessment
1986
FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING / Patr
FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING / Patricia A. Potter and Anne Griffin Perry
Fundamentals Of Nursing Enhanced Multimedia Edition Simulation Learning System
Fundamentals Of Nursing Enhanced Multimedia Edition Simulation Learning System