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Books : Science : Medicine : Nursing : General
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The powerhouse author team of Diana J. Mason, Judith K. Leavitt, and Mary W. Chaffee has put together a textbook filled with insights from well-known nurses and policy makers. This new edition combines scholarly analysis and first-hand narratives from the field to ensure a well-rounded understanding of important issues. This resource cultivates the development of valuable skills including conflict management, lobbying, the use of media, and working with communities for change -- essential abilities for any nurse assuming a leadership role in today's changing health care environment.- Solid breadth and depth of content covers both policy and politics.
- Contributors include many leading nurse experts in policy and politics.
- A diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and levels of content to appeal to many nursing audiences.
- Policy Spotlights provide key information on specific policy issues such as complementary therapies, reimbursement, social security, childcare and Medicare issues and options.
- Updated Policy Spotlights focus on policy issues such as Stem Cell Research, Medical Marijuana, Genetics, and Intimate Partner Violence.
- Updated Vignettes detail personal experiences, opportunities, and challenges facing a nurse in this career path.
- New Taking Action sections highlight a policy issue or political strategy and provide nurs
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The #1 pediatric nursing textbook on the market, this book is known for its accuracy, current research, and highly readable writing style. It provides a foundation in child development and health promotion, and covers specific health problems - organized by age groups and body systems, so you can individualize care at the appropriate level for each child. A streamlined approach, superior illustrations, and a full-color design make it easy to find and understand key nursing information.- A family focus emphasizes the role and influence of the family in health and illness.
- A "wellness” emphasis includes age-specific information on health promotion and injury prevention relevant to specific age groups, and discusses play, safety, language, self-esteem, nutrition, dental health, sleep, exercise, and sexuality.
- Detailed presentations of pathophysiology in disorder sections provide a clear understanding of the impact of disease on normal physiologic functions.
- Critical thinking exercises help you apply your knowledge and clinical judgments to specific situations.
- Nursing Care Guidelines boxes provide clear, step-by-step instructions for performing specific skills or procedures.
- Evidence-Based Practice boxes help you apply research and critical thought processes to support and guide the outcomes of nursing care.
- Atraumatic Care boxes provide guidance for administering nursing care with minimal pain or stress to the child, family, and nurse.
- Ethical case studies reflect complex patient care situations and illustrate proper consideration in care delivery.
- Community Focus boxes emphasize community issues and provide additional resources on caring for children outside the clinical setting.
- Emergency Treatment boxes provide quick reference in critical situations.
- Nursing Alerts provide critical information and Nursing Tips provide helpful hints.
- Cultural Awareness boxes highlight ways in which variations in beliefs and practices affect child care.
- Chapter Outlines and Learning Objectives guide your approach to learning.
- Key Points help you review and learn important concepts.
- Up-to-date references highlight research and focus your review of important content.
- Spanish-English translations in the appendix feature words and phrases commonly used in nurse-parent interactions.
- Related Topics and Additional Resources in each chapter refer you to related information inside the book and in ancillary materials.
- Free companion CD features NCLEX exam-style review questions, animations, critical thinking questions, case studies, modifiable nursing care plans, pediatric assessment video clips, illustrated pediatric skills, anatomy reviews, and more.
- New Pain Assessment and Management in Children chapter consolidates coverage of this subject for easy reference.
- Nursing care plans provide a model for planning patient care, including nursing diagnoses, patient/family goals, nursing interventions/rationales, expected outcomes, and newly included NIC and NOC classifications.
- Family-Centered Care boxes help you prepare families to cope with their child's care in special situations, providing information on patient teaching, home care, and incorporating the family in the child's care.
- Nursing process boxes provide streamlined, accessible information on major diseases and conditions.
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The "gold standard" text in community health nursing is now available in an updated, 7th edition! This respected text gives you a solid foundation in community and public health nursing concepts and interventions for individuals, families, and communities. Throughout, health promotion and disease prevention concepts are integrated into the multifaceted role of population-focused, community-oriented nursing practice. You'll find timely coverage of topics such as nursing roles following terrorist attacks and during infectious disease outbreaks; parish nursing; nurse-managed centers; and important client populations such as clients with AIDS, pregnant teens, and the homeless. Student-friendly features provide an accessible and challenging learning experience, and new content throughout keeps you up to date with this fast-changing field.- Comprehensive coverage addresses the multiple roles of public health nurses, the varied clients they care for, and the different settings where they practice.
- Full-color design, photos, and illustrations are visually appealing and useful for effective study and real-world representations.
- Varied client focus addresses nursing care for individuals, families, and communities, giving you the information you need to care for each type of client group.
- An entire unit is devoted to vulnerable populations, so you can better serve s
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Now in full color, the Sixth Edition of this highly acclaimed introductory research text continues to focus on how to read, understand, analyze, and evaluate research for use in nursing practice. This thoroughly updated edition has a greater focus on evidence-based practice, developing critiquing skills, and continued expansion of qualitative research. The text includes four full research reports, two of which have full written critiques.
A new Instructor's Resource CD-ROM includes PowerPoint slides and actual complete critiques (done by the author) which help faculty guide students' learning of how to critique research articles. The Student's CD-ROM has review questions and activity sheets which help increase comprehension, strengthen recall, and develop critiquing skills.
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Long relied on as the industry's most comprehensive, authoritative source for information on the care of pediatric patients, this respected text presents a wealth of nursing knowledge in vividly illustrated, easy-to-read chapters. Current, evidence-based practice is reflected throughout, from its emphasis on wellness to its use of the nursing process and nursing care plans. Now even more user-friendly and inviting, the updated, full-color layout and improved readability guide readers every step of the way. No other book on the subject offers more expert, practical, relevant coverage than Wong's Nursing Care of Infants & Children, 8th Edition.- A focus on the family throughout emphasizes the role and influence of the family in health and illness.
- Disorder sections provide a detailed presentation of pathophysiology to foster a clear understanding of the impact of disease on normal physiologic functions.
- Content provides a holistic view of the child and family by integrating aspects of wellness and health such as play, safety, language, self-esteem, nutrition, dental health, sleep, exercise, and sexuality into the appropriate age chapters.
- Nursing care plans incorporate patient- and family-centered goals, include rationales for nursing interventions, and contain NIC and NOC outcomes and interventions where appropriate.
- Helpful boxes throughout the text
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This title has a new edition: 5th Edition
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Set of three ECG pocketcards including ECG pocketcard ECG Evaluation pocketcard ECG Ruler Pocketcard
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Calculate with Confidence has been a success in the marketplace for several reasons. The ratio and proportion and formula methods, the two most common methods used in clinical practice, are included in the text, along with an extensive math review and large number of examples and exercises. The second edition features numerous new drug labels, syringes, and other illustrations, many in full colour to simulate clinical reality. Critical thinking activities and a "Critical Thinking to Avoid Drug Calculation Errors" feature encourage application skills. New sections on patient education and home care considerations are added in Chapter 9. Chapter objectives, a more user-friendly answer key, and perforated and three-hole punched pages make this book easier to use for both instructors and students.
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With frequent examples from the best of the research literature, this authoritative textprovides you with a comprehensive foundation for appraisal, synthesis, and generation of evidence for clinical practice. This new edition features an enhanced focus on research as the foundation for evidence-based practice, along with improved readability and more background coverage of qualitative research. This textbook prepares you to understand and apply research, and to go on to conduct original research.- Includes all the information needed to help both beginning nurses and beginning nurse-researchers understand and applying research findings to practice and conducting research.
- Includes frequent research examples from the best of the literature, strengthened with high-quality examples from the latest published studies, both qualitative and quantitative.
- Provides the most in-depth coverage of quantitative research methods of any nursing research text on the market.
- Comprehensive EVOLVE teaching/learning package includes an Instructor's Resource Manual, an enriched Test Bank, a PowerPoint Collection, syllabi, Data Set Activities (qualitative and quantitative), and more.
- Enhanced emphasis on research appraisal and synthesis for evidence-based practice equips students not just to generate research evidence but also to appraise and synthesize existi
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Community/Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Populations, 4th Edition focuses on the issues and responsibilities of contemporary community/public health nursing. Its emphasis on working with populations combined with the unique "upstream" preventive approach prepares the reader to assume an active role in caring for the health of clients in community and public settings. Plus, the new full-color design highlights special features and enhances content.- Features photo-novellas to engage students and demonstrate applications of important community health nursing concepts.
- Provides detailed case studies that emphasize community aspects of all steps of the nursing process to promote the community perspective in all health situations.
- Examines issues of social justice and discusses how to target inequalities in arenas such as education, jobs, and housing to prepare students to function in a community-focused health care system.
- Demonstrates the use of theoretical frameworks common to community and public health nursing showing how familiar and new theory bases can be used to solve problems and challenges in the community.
- Illustrates real-life situations with highlighted Clinical Examples depicting today's community/public health care.
- Discussion of Levels of Prevention presented within the Case Studies address specific applications f
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Geared toward the nurse with at least one year of critical care nursing experience, PASS CCRN! "C". is a review book for nurses seeking first-time AACN certification and those members of the AACN seeking recertification through the CCRN "C". exam. The book incorporates outline format, learning activities within each chapter utilizing practice multiple choice, comparison and elimination questions. Plus, the book concludes with a final practice exam of 200 questions based on the latest blueprint for the AACN Core Curriculum.
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This practical handbook should be used by nursing students in clinical courses and by nurses in clinical settings as a quick reference. It guides the nurse in planning what needs to be assessed, monitored, treated, and taught at every stage of care, including pre-test requirements, intra-test procedures, and posttest care. This updated edition also will be helpful to all other healthcare professionals who need to know what nurses will do with their patients undergoing laboratory or diagnostic testing. All tests and procedures are listed in alphabetical order by their complete name for ease of location, plus the comprehensive, integrated index allows fast searches by abbreviation, synonym, disease state or condition, organ system, specimen type, or test classification.
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This text is the most contemporary and comprehensive Nursing Theory textbook on the market today. Written in an easily understood style, it reflects current content course needs by addressing the underlying information needed to understand and apply theory to practice. One of the most popular aspects of this text is how it presents shared theories from other disciplines—such as the sociological, behavioral, and biomedical sciences—and relates them to nursing practice, research, education, and administration.
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Here is the only question-and-answer review book for fundamentals. More than 1,475 classroom-tested, NCLEX-style questions that cover an entire nursing fundamentals course. Click Here for a Special Mail-In Rebate Offer
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The second edition of this text continues to provide the concepts, skills, and learning features nurses need to excel in today's community health settings. It focuses on health promotion and disease prevention among individuals, families, and aggregates, offering concrete examples and specific guidelines.
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Even after 25 years, Wong's Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing, 7th Edition is still your go-to clinical guide to caring for children and their families in the hospital, community, and home. With care plans, assessment tools, skills and procedures, patient teaching, and reference data in a concise, reader-friendly format, Wong's Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing, 7th Edition is five books in one! Plus, now with an accompanying Evolve website with modifiable nursing care plans, medication tables, emergency treatment information, illustrated dermatologic problems, and Spanish translations for many of the patient teaching handouts included in the book, there's even more information right at your fingertips.- Up-to-date immunization, nutrition, and CPR guidelines help you treat your patients according to the most current standards of care.
- Community Focus boxes highlight issues related to treating children outside of the acute care setting.
- Atraumatic Care boxes help you minimize the pain and stress of procedures for the child, family, and yourself by outlining pain and stress management techniques.
- Redesigned Nursing Care Plans incorporate current NANDA nursing diagnoses, NIC and NOC terminology for the most up-to-date information.
- Evidence-Based Practice boxes support the most critical issues for practice and intervention so you are bette
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Gain the practical skills you need to competently and confidently calculate drug dosages, even if you dislike math. All it takes is practice - and Calculation of Drug Dosages, 8th Edition gives you the most practice of any drug calculation book available! First, it provides an extensive review of essential math concepts before introducing and clearly explaining the ratio and proportion, formula, and dimensional analysis methods of drug calculation. The book's popular "worktext" format builds on concepts as you go and reinforces what you learn with over 2,000 practice problems in the book and on the accompanying CD-ROM.- An extensive math review reinforces basic math skills that are essential for accurate drug dosage calculation. Once you've identified your strengths and weaknesses on the pretest, it's easy to work toward improving specific competencies.
- Chapter worksheets provide ample opportunities to practice solving realistic problems.
- Posttests at the end of most chapters help you assess your understanding of chapter content.
- Content is organized in a progression from simple to complex, building on prior knowledge and applying it to new material so you retain more of what you've learned.
- A Comprehensive Posttest at the end of the book provides additional practice and accurately gauges your understanding of key concepts.
- Learning objective
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This comprehensive text provides the most current and accurate health promotion and disease prevention information available. The book addresses health promotion for all ages and all population groups - individuals, families, and communities. It includes extensive coverage of growth and development throughout the life span, with an emphasis on normal development as well as the specific problems and health promotion issues common to each stage. A complete unit is devoted to health promotion interventions. It also offers a unique assessment framework based on Gordon's Functional Health Patterns to provide consistency in presentation and an approach in line with the promotion of health.- Extensive coverage of growth and development throughout all stages of the life span.
- A unit on specific interventions for health promotion.
- Addresses health promotion for all population groups - individual, family, and the community.
- Incorporates Case Studies that depict actual clinical situations to give students a "real-life" perspective.
- Innovative Practice examples highlight unique and creative health promotion programs.
- Summarizes specific clinical interventions in Health Teaching boxes to provide students with "how-to" nursing actions.
- Think About It clinical scenarios provide critical thinking questions to help readers gras
- Extensive coverage of growth and development throughout all stages of the life span.
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Revised and updated, this new 6th edition is the all-in-one source for practical, reliable information on nursing care during the childbearing years. Designed to meet the needs of today's students, it addresses the fundamentals of maternity nursing with a clear, more readable writing style and a concise, more focused content presentation. Integrating the importance of understanding family, culture, and health promotion into the continuum of care, it also includes a strategic integration of community-based care to emphasize that care can take place wherever the woman may be.
· Care management emphasized throughout.
· Women's health content is up front to provide a thorough understanding of health promotion and prevention, common health concerns and care of women throughout childbearing years.
· Home Care content is integrated in all normal and high risk nursing care chapters.
· Family content is first introduced in Chapter 2 and then incorporated in the pregnancy, labor & birth, postpartum, and newborn chapters to emphasize the importance of including the family in the continuum of care.
· Culture content introduced in Chapter 2 and then integrated throughout.
· Health promotion and prevention integrated to maintain a focus on wellness as an integral part of today's maternity nursing care.
· Patient Instructions for Self-Care boxes integrated throughout provides special instructions for follow-up care.
· Care of the childbearing adolescent integrated throughout providing important age related considerations.
· Nurse Alert boxes highlight
· English/Spanish Guidelines boxes provide the student with a handy reference for communicating with and teaching patients & families.
· Emergency Boxes alert the student to signs & symptoms of important situations.
· Free Companion CD with interactive case studies, matching and fill-in-the-blank questions, review questions, and a vocabulary review with sound pronunciations.
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Illustrated Study Guide for the NCLEX-RN Exam, 6th edition, covers the key nursing concepts and content areas found on the latest NCLEX-RN licensure examination. A concise outline format summarizes essential nursing content, enhanced by multiple illustrations, including many of the authors' popular mnemonic cartoons. The easy, colorful design includes a special Alert! feature that highlights frequently tested nursing concepts, and Nursing Priority boxes that identify priorities of care. The introductory chapter reviews the latest NCLEX test plan and new alternate item format questions, while separate chapters cover pharmacology and nursing management. The remaining chapters are organized by lifespan, basic nursing concepts, client populations, and body systems, for easy location of specific content. Chapter appendixes summarize related medications, diagnostic tests, and nursing procedures. NCLEX examination style review questions close every chapter, and a companion CD-ROM with over 1,500 questions (including alternate item formats) allows users to customize practice exams, and review answers and rationales.- Identifies concepts frequently found on the NCLEX exam in a specially designed Alert! feature.
- Highlights priorities of care in specially designed Nursing Priority boxes.
- Includes separate chapters on pharmacology and nursing management to focus on
- Identifies concepts frequently found on the NCLEX exam in a specially designed Alert! feature.