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Presents extensive coverage of a range of diseases and disorders for delivery of quality nursing care. New material addresses end-of-life care, genetic issues, and management of bioterrorism victims.

Numerous updates and a state-of-the-art ancillary package make the Tenth Edition of this best-selling textbook the most up-to-date book of its kind. New chapters include: End-of-Life Care, Genetics Perspectives in Nursing Practice, and Management of Patients Affected by Terrorism, Mass Casualty, and Disaster. New features include: Concept Maps relating NANDA diagnoses with NIC and NOC classification systems; boxed charts alerting nurses to genetics perspectives in practice; and new, specialized content on elderly patients and those with disabilities. A free CD-ROM in the text includes over 3,500 general student-study questions, 500 unit review questions, 3-dimensional animations that illustrate disease processes, and interactive clinical simulations covering asthma and congestive heart failure.

This portable quick-reference handbook gives residents, medical students, and practitioners a bedside refresher on the key components of 86 procedures used in emergency medicine. Procedures are grouped by organ system, with additional sections on nerve blocks and pediatric procedures. Unique to this handbook is a section on limited, goal-directed bedside ultrasonography and echocardiography--procedures that are an integral part of emergency medicine care and trauma assessment and are not described in detail in any other handbook. Each procedure is presented in a similar format: indications, contraindications, risks/consent issues, anatomic landmarks, technique, precautions, and pearls. More than 300 illustrations complement the text.

Lists the nursing process format for each conceptual model and theory helps the students understand how it is actually used in practice

Contemporary Nursing Knowledge: Analysis and Evaluation of Nursing Models and Theories
Publisher: F. A. Davis Company | ISBN: 0803611943 | edition 2004 | PDF | 623 pages | 4 mb

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While many books have covered the theoretical aspects of wellness, only one resource gives you a real sense of what wellness looks like at the bedside: the Nurse's Toolbook for Promoting Wellness. Compact and easy to use, this unique how-to guide is filled with wellness-oriented clinical tools and practical suggestions, from teaching nutritional wellness to promoting specific aspects of patients' wellness such as moving and breathing well.

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* Wellness Assessment Tools that give specific instructions on how to identify areas for potential wellness interventions
* Wellness Teaching Tools specifically designed to be used as handouts educate patients about how they can participate in their own care
* Insightful stories from nurses and patients demonstrating the role of wellness in patient care
* Clear three-part organization that begins with a helpful overview of wellness nursing, then covers how to promote patients' wellness in their daily lives and facilitate specific aspects of patients' wellness
* Detailed, step-by-step guidelines that provide specific techniques to use at the bedside
* Hands-on self-assessment tools that enable you to utilize wellness techniques in your own life

Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Colorado Springs. Pocket-sized reference offers the latest revised nursing diagnoses through the NANDA conference. Each diagnosis features related factors, defining characteristics, desired outcomes, interventions, and documentation. Interventions include rationales. Previous edition: c2002.

This combination textbook/reference is organized by test type, covers approximately 450 lab and diagnostic tests, and focuses on nursing care before, during, and after a test. Adopt the best manual for your students -- the one that combines physiology and pre- and post-test nursing care! The newly redesigned 4th edition of Nurse's Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests combines background information and clinical applications data on hundreds of laboratory and diagnostic tests. WHAT'S NEW Expanded discussion of physiology as needed encourages critical thinking and will help students understand the results of laboratory and diagnostic tests and their implications for therapy
Additional physiology diagrams Expanded explanation of critical laboratory values and nursing implications for care New two-color design clearly delineates background information and test monographs Highlighted critical values and nursing implications Revised index with extensive cross referencing facilitates effortless location of information KEY FEATURES Each test is covered in a single, integrated monograph with a description of the procedure, reference values (for adults, children, infants, in both conventional and SI units), indications, contraindications, nursing care before the test, the step-by-step procedure, and nursing care after the test Helps students understand the basis for a test, where problems can arise, and how to explain to patients what to watch out for; also allows students to know if a test is appropriate Organized by type of test with background physiology and pathophysiology presented for related test groups SI units are incorporated throughout the reference value tables for every test to which they are applicable

Nurse to Nurse: Trauma Care is the only portable and comprehensive quick-reference manual for the trauma nurse. Written by a nurse with more than two decades of clinical and management experience in trauma care, the book distills essential information into rapidly-accessible clinical directions through the use of algorithms, tables, boxes, clinical pearls, and nursing alerts.

Nurse to Nurse Trauma Care
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional | ISBN: 0071596771 | edition 2009 | PDF | 622 pages | 12,7 mb

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A unique "mentor in a pocket" handbook covering one of the most important trends in nursing today

From the co-creator of the Model for Change to Evidence-Based Practice comes the first portable guide to evidence-based practice for direct care nurses in any healthcare setting.

Part of McGraw-Hill's Nurse to Nurse series, this title includes PDA download of the entire text, case studies, and explicit step-by-step instructions on how to apply the Model for Evidence-Based Practice Change. Coated flex-binding repels stains.

The new Nurse to Nurse series is specifically designed to simulate the teaching experience nurses learn best from: trusted mentors carefully explaining what they must do in specific clinical situtions. Written in a consistent, single-author voice, this series brings the wisdom and experience of some of the foremost experts to non-specialist nurses in clinical care.

There have been major advances in practice nursing in recent years, and a rapid expansion in the role of the practice nurse. The Practice Nurse Handbook is an essential guide to all aspects of clinical practice, health promotion, and practice management, for nurses in general practice. The handbook includes chapters on common medical conditions, screening tests, sexual health, mental health, chronic disease management, travel health, immunisations, and emergency situations. It addresses legal issues, changes in primary care, nurse prescribing and covers key issues in team working. Each chapter contains suggestions for reflection on practice and presents the underlying evidence base.

The fifth edition of the Practice Nurse Handbook has been revised and updated to include the latest policy developments, including the National Service Frameworks, changes to the GP contract, information on primary care organisations, Quality and Outcomes Frameworks and new roles for practice nurses