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Health Technology Literacy: A Transdisciplinary Framework for Consumer-Oriented Practice.
  Jordan-marsh, Maryalice/ 9780763758486
 
  Health Technology Literacy: A Transdisciplinary Framework for Consumer-Oriented Practice examines the wide range of resources used by health consumers to inform, support decision-making, self-monitor, build supportive social networks online or via cell phone, and engage in treatment using interactive programs online or on CD or related media. Using evidence-based practice and relevant theories, this unique text analyzes the trend for health care systems to be reactive, while consumers are proactive for health technology.
Case Studies in Nurse Anesthesia.
  Elisha, Sass/ 9780763763879
 
  Case Studies in Nurse Anesthesia provides succinct and relevant information that can be used by students and professionals in the operating room. Information is written in a question and answer format for easy understanding and the chapters are divided into surgical specialties, with a focus on the most frequently performed procedures. Each case describes the entire perioperative course and discusses the patient・s history and physical, anesthetic concerns, surgical concerns, anesthetic management, differential diagnosis, and potential complications.
NCLEX High-Risk: The Disaster Prevention Manual for Nurses Determined to Pass the RN Licensing Examination.
  Condon, Marian C./ 9780763773397
 
  NCLEX High-Risk: The Disaster Prevention Manual for Nurses Determined to Pass the RN Licensing Examination provides senior nursing students and graduate nurses, who are at risk of failing the NCLEX-RN, with proven methods to maximize their chances of success. Focusing on two key weakness areas, test-question analysis and basic nursing knowledge, readers will be guided through comprehensive self-diagnostic processes related to both of these areas, and then through whatever remedial work is needed. Readers will be equipped to take the NCLEX-RN with confidence!
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Certification Study Question Book.
  Silbert-Flagg, JoAnne/ 9780763776268
 
  Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Certification Study Question Book, Third Edition is the ideal review guide for Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Family Nurse Practitioners preparing to take certification exams and as a reference in the practice setting. The content of the Study Question Bookis divided into systems with an in-depth coverage of growth and development and health promotion and maintenance. Following each chapter are test questions, including answers and bibliographic reference. Focused on enhancing your test-taking skills while also integrating the principles of test taking, this study guide provides a comprehensive and total approach to success in the examination process.
Handbook for Health Care Research.
  Chatburn, Robert/ 9780763778057
 
  This is a unique book on scientific research written for health care practitioners. Using step-by-step guidelines, the text teaches students and practitioners to implement a research protocol and evaluate the results, even with no experience or formal training in the research process. It provides the basic tools to carry out and critically analyze the research data, from asking the initial questions to preparing a publication. The chapters are organized around the major steps in the research process, allowing the reader to sort through various research procedures easily. Statistical procedures are illustrated with actual examples from health care practice in this user friendly resource.
Institutional Review Board: Member Handbook.
  Amdur, Robert J./ 9780763780005
 
  Designed to give Institutional Review Board (IRB) members the information they need to protect the rights and welfare of research subjects in a way that is both effective and efficient, the chapters of the Institutional Review Board Member Handbook are short and to the point. Topic-specific chapters list the criteria IRB members should use to determine how to vote on specific kinds of studies and offer practical advice on what IRB members should do before and during full-committee meetings.
Neonatal Certification Review for the CCRN and RNC High-Risk Examination.
  Rogelet, Keri R./ 9780763780050
 
  Neonatal Certification Review for the CCRN and RNC High-Risk Examination is the essential guide for critical care nurses preparing for the Neonatal CCRN and the RNC High Risk exams. With an increasing number of hospitals seeking Magnet status, more critical care nurses will be required to obtain this certification. This unique review guide provides insight into the difference between the CCRN and RNC exams as well as information about the Low Risk Neonatal Intensive Care RNC. By learning through an effective question and answer format with rationale for all answers, critical care nurses will now be able to take the exams with confidence!
Frequently Prescribed Medications: Drugs You Need to Know.
  Mancano, Michael/ 9780763781170
 
  Frequently Prescribed Medications: Drugs You Need to Know is a practical teaching tool designed for learning about the drugs that are most commonly used in practice. Important concepts with regard to the use of specific medications are covered as well as the essential information about commonly prescribed medications. The information included for each drug includes: drug class, mechanism of action for the drug class, common brand name(s), generic name, dosage forms, indications, dosing for each indication, initial dose, maintenance dose, maximum dose, renal dosage adjustment, adverse reactions, most common adverse reactions/rare/severe/important, absolute contraindications, major drug interactions, pregnancy category, and key counseling points. With a glossary and end-of chapter questions, this text is a straightforward resource to aid student comprehension. This guide is also an excellent test prep for the Top 200/300 exam.
Health Counseling: A Microskills Approach for Counselors, Educators, and School Nurses.
  Blonna, Richard/ 9780763781569
 
  Health Counseling: A Microskills Approach for Counselors, Educators, and School Nurses, Second Edition teaches non-professionally trained counselors the basic skills of counseling. It addresses primary prevention issues such as preventing unintended pregnancy, STDs, as well as secondary prevention issues like diabetes and asthma. A new chapter on legal and ethical issues covers setting limits with students, ethical practice boundaries, and how to make referrals. Based on the Ivey・s MicroSkills Model, which breaks counseling into discrete skills that can be mastered and applied, it theorizes that to help people manage their health problems, counselors must help clients work through any emotional distress associated with them.
SM04-392 Effective Patient Education: A Guide to Increased Adherence.
  Falvo, Donna R./ 9780763766252
 
  Written by a nursing expert and former Chair of patient education for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, Effective Patient Education: A Guide to Increased Adherence, Fourth Edition gives clinicians the tools they need to become effective patient educators. Using a patient-centered approach, this essential text provides specific strategies for communicating in a way that motivates patients to take action. Crucial to this approach is an understanding of the patient as a partner in the patient education process. The text uncovers patient concerns and challenges that may interfere with patient adherence to recommendations, enabling clinicians to gain insight into their patients and devise communication strategies that can empower patients to overcome obstacles. In addition, this completely revised and updated edition explores the challenges that clinicians may face in conducting patient education. Using case examples to illustrate key points, this text moves beyond theory to offer practical application principles for the real world. Featuring a clinical approach in examining established patient-education theories, Effective Patient Education: A Guide to Increased Adherence, Fourth Edition is an invaluable guide for nursing students and professionals!
SM04-392 Nursing from the Inside-out: Living and Nursing from the Highest Point of Your Consciousness.
  Hill, Rachel Y./ 9780763769963
 
  Nursing from the Inside-Out: Living and Nursing from the Highest Point of Your Consciousness provides holistic self-care modalities that allow the nursing professional to achieve self-awareness through individual practice and application. Self-care consciousness helps nurses create the balance in their lives that support mental, spiritual, and physical growth. Through use of these tools, the nurse is able to maintain inner balance in the busy and changing world of healthcare, while simultaneously establishing meaningful connections with patients.
SM04-392 Theory and Research for Academic Nurse Educators: Application to Practice.
  Utley, Rose/ 9780763774134
 
  Theory and Research for Academic Nurse Educators: Application to Practice is an essential guide to nursing education theory, research and it's application in the classroom. Designed for the nurse educator, this comprehensive guide is focused around the National League for Nursing's eight core competencies for academic nurse educators. This textbook contains an overview of the academic nurse educator role, core competencies, strategies for applying theory and research-based knowledge to further professional development. This text is an ideal resource for nurses preparing for the Certified Nurse Educator Exam (CNE) and nursing education students.
SM04-392 Nursing Student's Guide to Clinical Success, The.
  Payne, Lorene/ 9780763776145
 
  The Nursing Student・s Guide to Clinical Success is the perfect resource for undergraduate nursing students entering the clinical side of their education. This text helps students better understand their role as a as health care provider by preparing them for what they will encounter on the clinical floor in hospital or other health care setting. The first text of its kind, this shows students how to get the most out of a clinical experience.
SM04-392 Making of Nurse Professionals, The: A Transformational, Ethical Approach.
  Crigger, Nancy/ 9780763780562
 
  The Making of Nurse Professionals: A Transformational, Ethical Approach offers a unified, comprehensive moral philosophy that is foundational to professional identity formation in nursing, and a visionary, grounded plan for students to engage in the development of professional identity. This text is perfect for both nurse educators and nursing students who want a fresh look at the historical, psychological, philosophical and ethical, and societal roots of professionalism in nursing. The Making of Nurse Professionals synthesizes professionalism and ethical theory in a new way, and solves problems not previously addressed in conceptualizations of professionalism.
SM04-392 Creative Solutions to Enhance Nursing Quality.
  Boxer, Bruce A./ 9780763781859
 
  Creative Solutions to Enhance Nursing Quality serves as a resource to guide institutions through the Magnet journey, providing valuable information and insights that may actually hasten the Magnet designation process by enabling institutions to appropriately and thoroughly evaluate possible solutions. Each creative solution entry begins with a narrative description of the creative solution and the environment in which it was developed, a summary of how it was originally used to enhance quality, and its overall efficacy in meeting its purpose. The next section provides the nurse leader with the essential ingredients and step-by-step instructions for the implementation of the creative solution including a timeline, noting specific anticipated milestones. Finally, there is a brief discussion of how to adapt the creative solution to certain environments along with advice on how to achieve enculturation.
SM04-392 Care for Pregnant Women Who are Obese.
  Richens, Yana/ 9781856423885
 
 
SM04-392 Fundamental Aspects of Palliative Care Nursing: An Evidence Based Handbook for Student Nurses.
  Becker, Robert/ 9781856423946
 
 
SM04-392 Legal Aspects of Pain Management.
  Dimond, Bridgit/ 9781856423953
 
 
SM04-392 Legal Aspects of Patient Confidentiality.
  Dimond, Bridgit/ 9781856423960
 
 
SM04-392 Pioneering Theories in Nursing.
  Snowden, Austyn/ 9781856424004
 
 
SM04-391 Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals: Advocacy and Action.
  Nickitas, Donna M./ 9780763756598
 
  Public Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals provides a nursing focus with an interdisciplinary approach intertwined to create an understanding of the economic, political and policy dimensions of health care. Using contributors, this reference offers future nurses and healthcare practitioners keen insight and understanding that clinical practice is derived from regulation, laws, and policies that are initiated from public policy and politics. Key features include chapter objectives, summaries, examples, boxed articles, case studies, review questions, key terms, photographs, and a tool kit that includes a "skills" section of how-to's.
SM04-391 Clinical Nurse Specialist Handbook, The
  Zuzelo, Patti R./ 9780763761141
 
  The text provides practical advice using real-world CNS scenarios to facilitate learning and positively influence care outcomes. It also contains information and tools to help students expand their knowledge and succeed professionally. Chapters address issues such as workplace violence, professional and personal development, and performance appraisal. The book・s conversational approach masters complex topic discussions and thoroughly engages readers. It serves as a valuable resource for CNS graduate students and faculty as well as new-to-practice CNSs, providing: * Practical suggestions, resources, and examples * Case studies of real-life hospital situations * Newly revised PowerPoint slides to help educators initiate discussions
SM04-391 Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding.
  Smith, Linda J./ 9780763763749
 
  Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding, Second Edition examines the research and evidence connecting birth practices to breastfeeding outcomes. It takes an in-depth look at the post-birth experiences of the mother and baby, using the baby・s ability to breastfeed as the vehicle, the mother・s lactation capacity as a factor, and the intact mother-baby dyad as the model to address birth practices that affect breastfeeding. The Second Edition has been completely revised to include new information on infant outcomes, including epidural anesthesia and Cesarean surgery, clinical strategies for helping the mother and baby recover from birth injuries, medications and complications, and information on the World Health Organization・s Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative with its Mother-Friendly Childbirth Module.
SM04-391 Doctor of Nursing Practice Essentials, The: A New Model for Advanced Practice Nursing.
  Zaccagnini, Mary E./ 9780763773465
 
  The Doctor of Nursing Practice Essentials assists and advises current DNP students, students considering obtaining the degree, and also serves as a reference for those who have already completed a DNP program. This text is modeled after the eight DNP Essentials as outlined by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Each section discusses the materials relevant to an element of the essentials document and helps students understand the Essentials and complete the steps necessary to fulfill the requirements of the degree.
SM04-391 Peer Review in Nursing: Principles for Successful Practice.
  Haag-Heitman, Barbara/ 9780763790400
 
  Peer Review in Nursing: Principles for a Successful Practice is the first nursing publication that approaches the definition and implementation strategies for peer review within an organizational setting. Using a professional model, with shared governance as a framework, the authors discuss the difference between manger initiated staff performance evaluation of the past and the true peer review aspects of professional practice for the future. This text follows in line with the Magnet program requirement ：that nurses at all levels use self appraisal performance review and peer review, including annual goal settings, for the assurance of competence and professional development； page 30 of the 2008 Magnet manual. This unique text teaches nurses the skills they need to demonstrate organizational processes, structures, and outcomes that help insure accountability, competence and autonomy.
SM04-391 Law and Professional Issues in Nursing.
  Griffith, Richard/ 9781844453726
 
 
SM04-391 Nursing and Collaborative Practice: A Guide to Interprofessional Learning and Working.
  Goodman, Benny/ 9781844453733
 
 
SM04-391 Contexts of Contemporary Nursing.
  Williamson, Graham R./ 9781844453740
 
 
SM04-391 Fundamental Aspects of Research for Nurses.
  Dyson, Sue/ 9781856423786
 
 
SM04-390 Integrating Technology in Nursing Education: Tools for the Knowledge Era.
  Mastrian, Kathleen G./ 9780763768713
 
  Designed for nursing educators and students interested in the field of nursing education, Integrating Technology in Nursing Education: Tools for the Knowledge Era provides valuable, easy-to-use strategies on incorporating technology into the classroom. The text examines the increased role of technology in healthcare and its transformational impact on that field, allowing nurses to understand current and future trends and thus, integrate technology into nursing education in order to effectively prepare students for a new, technologically-driven healthcare environment. Also featured are topics on learning theories, the instructional design process, changes in higher education, and variations in learning environments. Using case studies, critical-thinking exercises, weblinks, and more, the text challenges nurses to think critically and formulate compelling teaching strategies.
 

 

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