This book has been developed to help nurses who are in nurse practitioner roles by supporting them to develop their ‘advanced practice skills’. This book is intended to build on skills and knowledge that nurses will have acquired at staff nurse level. It is intended that this book will develop skills and knowledge which until recently have been more in the medical domain.
Cardiac Nursing
Now thoroughly updated with current, evidence-based material, Cardiac Nursing is recognized as “The Red Reference Book” for nurses caring for patients who have, or are at risk for developing, cardiac diseases. Organized within the framework of the nursing process, this comprehensive clinical reference provides complete information on the assessment, pathophysiology, management, and prevention of heart diseases and details the rationale and evidence for interventions. This edition has seven brand-new chapters on inflammation, atherosclerosis, genetics, heart rate variability, complementary and alternative medicine, disease management models, and nuclear and other scans. Boxes of evidence-based content have been added within chapters where appropriate.
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Clinical Drug Therapy_Rationales for Nursing Practice, 7th Edition
Now with a free CD-ROM, this leading full-color pharmacology textbook presents unique coverage of nursing interventions for drug therapies with related rationales, emphasizing the individualization of drug therapy. Chapters are organized by body systems and therapeutic classifications of drugs. Highly praised for presenting information in an organized, concise and readable fashion, this text includes many excellent features such as: How to Avoid Medication Errors, Client Teaching Guidelines, Apply Your Knowledge, Nursing Action Tables with Rationales, Case Scenarios, Review Exercises, and Nursing Process Boxes. The Seventh Edition highlights new content including herbal and food supplements throughout.
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Critical Care Nursing Made Easy
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This is a handy reference book in the award-winning Incredibly Easy! style–perfect for those entering or needing a refresher in critical care nursing. Critical care nursing is one of the most demanding and complex areas of nursing practice. The critical care nurse has to be “broadly specialized” with a fluency in a wide range of interconnected concepts, body system physiology, pathophysiology, and highly technical interventions, while processing data from multiple sources–all this in an environment where there is no room for error and seconds really do count.
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Diseases and Disorder : Manual of Nursing Therapeutics
Every nurse should have this book helped me more than any other text book during nursing school. It takes a disease or disorder and breaks it down to the nuts and bolts. With every disease you get: a brief description of what it is, it’s causes, gender and life span considerations, what to assess, primary nursing diagnosis, planning of care, common drugs used, what labs to look for, discharge guidelines, and what to document. This is all done in less than six pages on most diseases. This book saved me a tremendous amount of time, and I still use it in my nursing practice today. This book was my life line in nursing school, and I wouldn’t have made it through without it. You won’t regret getting this book. It can be a life saver.
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Encyclopedia of Nursing Research
Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH. Text includes 320 articles by 200 expert contributors on topics such as nursing services, education, care, specialties, organizations and publications, cancer survivorship, middle range theories, taxonomy, HIV risk behavior, depression in cardiac disease, and more.
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Nursing Procedures
The newly revised Fourth Edition of this popular and widely used reference is a start-to-finish guide for nearly 400 basic and advanced nursing procedures. It provides step-by-step instructions for each procedure, explains how to use and troubleshoot equipment, and presents key information on rationales, cautions, complications, patient teaching, and documentation. The user-friendly format includes checklists, quick-scanning tables, logos that flag essential information, and more than 700 illustrations and photographs of equipment and techniques. This edition features a brand-new chapter on psychiatric nursing procedures and new entries on prone positioning, surgical site verification, ST segment monitoring, swallowing and aspiration precautions, and bispectral index monitoring (BIS).
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Fundamental Nursing Skills
Providing forward-thinking approaches and ideas for nurses of all categories, this reference has been written primarily in response to increasing concerns regarding the perceived lack of ability in both students and newly qualified nurses to perform clinical skills.
By outlining the elements of essential nursing procedure in a readily accessible format, including rationale for recommended actions and promoting evidence-based practice, this text encourages the reader to keep a record of achievement in relation to clinical skill competence.
The selection of skills included is based on extensive consultation with experienced clinicians, students, clients and teachers of nursing. Each procedure has been carefully researched to provide a contemporary foundation for practice. The text also contains a rapid reference section of common terminology, conversion tables, laboratory results and other useful information.
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Gastrointestinal Nursing
Many nurses work as specialist practitioners within several areas of gastrointestinal medicine, including inflammatory bowel disease, stoma care, nutrition, endoscopy and counselling. There has been a steady increase in nurse-led services and gastrointestinal nursing is an expanding area. This comprehensive text lays the foundation by reviewing the anatomy and physiology underlying common conditions before covering the pathophysiology of clinical features, causes, investigation and management. Underlying this approach will be the specific nursing aspects of caring for patients with gastrointestinal conditions, covering psychosocial factors and issues such as the measurement of health related quality of life.
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Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, Fourth Edition
A Handbook for Practice guides nurses in the art and science of holistic nursing and healing and offers ways of thinking, practicing, and responding both personally and professionally. It addresses our own self-healing so that we can offer new ways of healing to others and presents expanded strategies for enhancing our psychophysiology using self-assessments, relaxation, imagery, nutrition, exercise, and aromatherapy. It also assists nurses in their challenging roles of bringing healing to the forefront of health care and helping to shape health care reform.
A Handbook for Practice maintains its infallible reputation as market leader in this extensively updated and expanded fourth edition. This wonderful new text covers all aspects of holistic nursing care along with special attention to the well-being of the care-giver.
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Key Nursing Skills
Written by authors have a wide experience in teaching and practicing nursing, Key Nursing Skills will be invaluable to nurses who really want to get to grips with the more common procedures.
Each chapter focuses on a specific area of care and related skills and considers the main practice issues. Each intervention is presented within a nursing problem which states the nature of the patient problem and goal. The available current evidence base is outlined and related to the problem before the procedure is explained in straight forward terms.
Experienced nurses’ tips have been integrated into the procedures, so alerting the reader to anticipate individual patients’ needs or anxieties, or improve upon their own performance.
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Medical-Surgical Nursing
Exam review covers the nursing process. Offers tips; charts for drug classification, indications, and interventions; teaching boxes; study questions with answers and rationales; and a CD-ROM with 200 NCLEX-style questions.
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Rheumatology Nursing: A Creative Approach
A new edition of an established research-based text on one of the fastest growing topics in nursing: nurses dealing with this complex subject need to be kept up to date and this book written by a team of expert rheumatology nurses fills that role.
The book’s emphasis is on addressing the patients’ problems, assessing the effects of the disease both on the body and psychologically and suggesting treatments best suited to the individual patient. It encourages nurses to work in partnership with the patients and their careers, adopting a holistic approach to care.
* Edited by an acknowledged international expert in the development of the specialty
* Covers the needs of all nurses involved with rheumatology patients both in hospital and at home
* Research-based and completely updated to include the latest developments in treatments available
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Nursing Assistant / Nurse Aid Exam, 2ed
Career opportunities for Nursing Assistants are growing every year, but it is extremely difficult to become part of this dynamic workforce. Candidates must pass a tough certification exam and meet employment requirements. This book is the best choice to prepare for the test and for a career as a Nursing Assistant. It offers four complete Nursing Assistant Exams, with full answer explanations and gives a list of resources for job placement services and professional organizations.
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Nusrsing Theories and Nursing Practice
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Nursing Health Assessment A Critical Thinking Case Studies Approach
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Nursing Care of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Patient
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