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Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice

A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being

by Robert J. Wicks, Gloria F. Donnelly ...

The mental and physical health of caregivers impacts more than just that individual worker. It affects the health of their patients, it impacts their families, it shapes communities, it influences politics, and it plays into international relations. Medical and nursing professionals working in today's health care settings must be prepared to offer support in dangerous times despite staffing ... Read more

$21.59 CAD

The mental and physical health of caregivers impacts more than just that individual worker. It affects the health of their patients, it impacts their families, it shapes communities, it influences politics, and it plays into international relations. Medical and nursing professionals working in today's health care settings must be prepared to offer support in dangerous times despite staffing
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No One Left Behind: Decades of Growth

Collective Stories of Nurse Practitioners Transforming Healthcare in Canada

by Kim Harkness ...

When the nurse practitioner role was first introduced in the 1960s, no one could foresee the revolution in health care delivery it would augur. But decades later, the role is still little understood. In this striking follow-up to Claudia Mariano’s 2015 book No One Left Behind, nurse practitioners from across Canada reflect on the challenges, triumphs, and evolution of the profession through the ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

When the nurse practitioner role was first introduced in the 1960s, no one could foresee the revolution in health care delivery it would augur. But decades later, the role is still little understood. In this striking follow-up to Claudia Mariano’s 2015 book No One Left Behind, nurse practitioners from across Canada reflect on the challenges, triumphs, and evolution of the profession through the
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TOP 10 Geriatric Syndromes: Clinical Management Strategies

by Lisa Byrd, PhD, FNP-BC, GNP-BC, Gerontologist ...

This book will present many of the expected changes caused by normal aging and the Top Ten Geriatric Syndromes elders experience. These syndromes are a cascade of problems in an elders health and revolve around vision and hearing problems, elimination issues, dizziness, falls, and cognitive impairment including delirium as well as dementia (such as Alzheimers disease). For these reasons, providing ... Read more

$9.08 CAD

This book will present many of the expected changes caused by normal aging and the Top Ten Geriatric Syndromes elders experience. These syndromes are a cascade of problems in an elders health and revolve around vision and hearing problems, elimination issues, dizziness, falls, and cognitive impairment including delirium as well as dementia (such as Alzheimers disease). For these reasons, providing
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Leddy & Pepper's Professional Nursing

by Lucy J Hood ...

Easy to read, visually engaging, and updated with the latest practices and considerations in clinical nursing practice, Leddy & Pepper’s Professional Nursing, 10th Edition provides a practical overview of the contemporary nursing profession and addresses the philosophical, developmental, sociocultural, environmental, political, health care delivery, and leadership issues essential to career ... Read more

$97.73 CAD

Easy to read, visually engaging, and updated with the latest practices and considerations in clinical nursing practice, Leddy & Pepper’s Professional Nursing, 10th Edition provides a practical overview of the contemporary nursing profession and addresses the philosophical, developmental, sociocultural, environmental, political, health care delivery, and leadership issues essential to career
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Confessions of a Male Nurse

by Michael Alexander ...

Series series The Confessions Series
From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP.From stampeding nudes to inebriated teenagers, young nurse Michael Alexander never really knew what he was getting himself into. But now, sixteen years since he was first launched into his nursing career – as the only man in a gynaecology ward – he’s pretty much dealt with everything: Body parts that come off in his hands; ... Read more

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From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP.From stampeding nudes to inebriated teenagers, young nurse Michael Alexander never really knew what he was getting himself into. But now, sixteen years since he was first launched into his nursing career – as the only man in a gynaecology ward – he’s pretty much dealt with everything: Body parts that come off in his hands;
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Come From Away

Nurses Who Immigrated to Newfoundland and Labrador

by Jeanette Walsh ...

The third volume in the best-selling nursing history series. ... Read more

$12.23 CAD

The third volume in the best-selling nursing history series.
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Saving Lives

Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk

by Harry Jacobs Summers, Sandy Summers ...

For millions of people worldwide, nurses are the difference between life and death, self-sufficiency and dependency, hope and despair. But a lack of understanding of what nurses really do -- one perpetuated by popular media's portrayal of nurses as simplistic archetypes -- has devalued the profession and contributed to a global shortage that constitutes a public health crisis. Today, the thin ... Read more

$25.19 CAD

For millions of people worldwide, nurses are the difference between life and death, self-sufficiency and dependency, hope and despair. But a lack of understanding of what nurses really do -- one perpetuated by popular media's portrayal of nurses as simplistic archetypes -- has devalued the profession and contributed to a global shortage that constitutes a public health crisis. Today, the thin
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Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow

Canadian Health Professionals’ Experience of Compassion Fatigue

by Wendy Austin, E. Sharon Brintnell, Erika Goble, Leon Kagan, Linda Kreitzer, Denise J. Larsen, Brendan Leier ...

First used to describe the weariness the public felt toward media portrayals of societal crises, the term compassion fatigue has been taken up by health professionals to name—along with burnout, vicarious traumatization, compassion stress, and secondary traumatic stress—the condition of caregivers who become “too tired to care.” Compassion, long seen as the foundation of ethical caring, is ... Read more

$28.07 CAD

First used to describe the weariness the public felt toward media portrayals of societal crises, the term compassion fatigue has been taken up by health professionals to name—along with burnout, vicarious traumatization, compassion stress, and secondary traumatic stress—the condition of caregivers who become “too tired to care.” Compassion, long seen as the foundation of ethical caring, is
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Managing to Nurse

Inside Canada's Health Care Reform

by Janet Rankin, Marie Campbell ...

Series series Heritage
How does the contemporary restructuring of health care affect nursing practice? Increasingly since the 1970s, and more intensively under recent reforms, Canadian health care is the focus of information-supported, professionally based management. In Managing to Nurse, Janet M. Rankin and Marie L. Campbell probe the operation of this new form of hospital and its effect management on nurses and ... Read more

$33.83 CAD

How does the contemporary restructuring of health care affect nursing practice? Increasingly since the 1970s, and more intensively under recent reforms, Canadian health care is the focus of information-supported, professionally based management. In Managing to Nurse, Janet M. Rankin and Marie L. Campbell probe the operation of this new form of hospital and its effect management on nurses and
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At the Coalface

The memoir of a pit nurse

by Joan Hart ...

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike.Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was 16, the ... Read more

$12.99 CAD

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike.Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was 16, the
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Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics

Cases, Concepts, and the Virtue of Prudence, Fourth Edition

by Raymond J. Devettere ...

For more than twenty years Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics has offered scholars and students a highly accessible and teachable alternative to the dominant principle-based theories in the field. Raymond J. Devettere's approach is not based on an ethics of abstract obligations and duties but, following Aristotle, on how to live a fulfilled and happy life—in short, an ethics of ... Read more

$52.19 CAD

For more than twenty years Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics has offered scholars and students a highly accessible and teachable alternative to the dominant principle-based theories in the field. Raymond J. Devettere's approach is not based on an ethics of abstract obligations and duties but, following Aristotle, on how to live a fulfilled and happy life—in short, an ethics of
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Social Aspects Of Health, Illness And Healthcare

by Mary Larkin ...

This book fills a gap for an introductory text that offers broad coverage of the sociological issues that are relevant to health students coming to the theoretical and experiential aspects of health and illness for the first time. ... Read more

$41.39 CAD

This book fills a gap for an introductory text that offers broad coverage of the sociological issues that are relevant to health students coming to the theoretical and experiential aspects of health and illness for the first time.
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A New Era in Global Health

Nursing and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Edited by William Rosa, MS, RN, AGPCNP-BC, ACHPN, FCCM, Caritas Coach ...

Explores the great potential for nursing involvement in promoting global health.This unique text elucidates the relationship between global nursing and global health, underscoring the significance of nurses’ contributions in furthering the Post-2015 Agenda of the United Nations regarding global health infrastructures, and examining myriad opportunities for nurses to promote the 17 Sustainable ... Read more

$93.59 CAD

Explores the great potential for nursing involvement in promoting global health.This unique text elucidates the relationship between global nursing and global health, underscoring the significance of nurses’ contributions in furthering the Post-2015 Agenda of the United Nations regarding global health infrastructures, and examining myriad opportunities for nurses to promote the 17 Sustainable
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Ethics, Law and Professional Issues

A Practice-Based Approach for Health Professionals

by Ann Gallagher, Sue Hodge ...

This practice-based textbook explores the ethical, legal and professional issues that characterise the field of healthcare. From seeking consent to upholding patient confidentiality, it examines a broad range of professional dilemmas from everyday practice. Detailed scenarios and engaging discussions help the reader understand how best to balance ethics, the law and professional codes of conduct ... Read more

$38.56 CAD

This practice-based textbook explores the ethical, legal and professional issues that characterise the field of healthcare. From seeking consent to upholding patient confidentiality, it examines a broad range of professional dilemmas from everyday practice. Detailed scenarios and engaging discussions help the reader understand how best to balance ethics, the law and professional codes of conduct
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Patients at Risk

The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare

by Niran (Rebekah) A Al-Agba (Bernard) ...

Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare exposes a vast conspiracy of political maneuvering and corporate greed that has led to the replacement of qualified medical professionals by lesser trained p ... Read more

$20.15 CAD

Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare exposes a vast conspiracy of political maneuvering and corporate greed that has led to the replacement of qualified medical professionals by lesser trained p
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Personzentrierte Pflegepraxis

Grundlagen für Praxisentwicklung, Forschung und Lehre

Edited by Christoph von Dach, Hanna Mayer ...

Wie kann die gesundheitliche Versorgung von Patienten verbessert werden? Wie können Menschen wieder in den Mittelpunkt der Versorgung und Pflegepraxis gestellt werden? Personzentrierung gilt als ein Schlüsselelemente für diese Form der Praxisentwicklung. Was sich hinter diesem Begriff verbirgt klärt dieses Fachbuch.Personzentrierte Pflegepraxis bietet ein Fachbuch für Pflegemanager_innen, ... Read more

$84.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Wie kann die gesundheitliche Versorgung von Patienten verbessert werden? Wie können Menschen wieder in den Mittelpunkt der Versorgung und Pflegepraxis gestellt werden? Personzentrierung gilt als ein Schlüsselelemente für diese Form der Praxisentwicklung. Was sich hinter diesem Begriff verbirgt klärt dieses Fachbuch.Personzentrierte Pflegepraxis bietet ein Fachbuch für Pflegemanager_innen,
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Transcultural Nursing - E-Book

Assessment and Intervention

by Joyce Newman Giger, Linda Haddad ...

- NEW co-author Dr. Linda Haddad is an internationally recognized cultural scholar who has taught nursing around the globe, has acted as an advisor and coordinator for the World Health Organization, and has published over 30 scholarly articles on nursing with a focus on understanding the cultural implication to care. - UPDATED! Cultural chapters are completely revised to reflect the shifting ... Read more

$81.35 CAD

- NEW co-author Dr. Linda Haddad is an internationally recognized cultural scholar who has taught nursing around the globe, has acted as an advisor and coordinator for the World Health Organization, and has published over 30 scholarly articles on nursing with a focus on understanding the cultural implication to care. - UPDATED! Cultural chapters are completely revised to reflect the shifting
... Read more
Ethical and Legal Issues in Canadian Nursing E-Book

by Margaret Keatings, Pamela Adams ...

Prepare for practice with the essential text dedicated to Canadian legal and ethical issues! Focused solely on the ever-changing, and often complex health care landscape in Canada, Ethical & Legal Issues in Canadian Nursing 4th, Edition expertly covers the often intertwined ethical and legal issues that health care professionals face today. This fourth edition includes discussion points at the end ... Read more

$52.55 CAD

Prepare for practice with the essential text dedicated to Canadian legal and ethical issues! Focused solely on the ever-changing, and often complex health care landscape in Canada, Ethical & Legal Issues in Canadian Nursing 4th, Edition expertly covers the often intertwined ethical and legal issues that health care professionals face today. This fourth edition includes discussion points at the end
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Contemporary Nursing - E-Book

Issues, Trends, and Management

Edited by Barbara Cherry, Susan R. Jacob ...

Get the big picture on professional nursing issues and prepare for leadership and management! Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and Management, 10th Edition ensures that you are prepared for the complex and rapidly changing world of today's nursing. Coverage of key topics includes nursing theories and evidence-based practice, patient safety and quality care, clinical judgment, delegation and ... Read more

$79.19 CAD

Get the big picture on professional nursing issues and prepare for leadership and management! Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and Management, 10th Edition ensures that you are prepared for the complex and rapidly changing world of today's nursing. Coverage of key topics includes nursing theories and evidence-based practice, patient safety and quality care, clinical judgment, delegation and
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Matices de la seguridad en niños para prevenir lesiones no intencionales

by Elizabeth Sevilla ...

Hablar sobre lesiones no intencionales en niños es prioritario, ya que encabezan las primeras causas de que el niño enferme o muera; porque son originadas por acciones imprudentes, condiciones inseguras, falta de seguridad en el ambiente que rodea al niño; porque existe desconocimiento de las causas; porque es posible prevenirlas; porque representan un porcentaje mayor que las causas de lesiones ... Read more

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Hablar sobre lesiones no intencionales en niños es prioritario, ya que encabezan las primeras causas de que el niño enferme o muera; porque son originadas por acciones imprudentes, condiciones inseguras, falta de seguridad en el ambiente que rodea al niño; porque existe desconocimiento de las causas; porque es posible prevenirlas; porque representan un porcentaje mayor que las causas de lesiones
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Lippincott Essentials for Nursing Assistants

A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving

by Pamela J Carter ...

Lippincott Essentials for Nursing Assistants: A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving, 6th edition, streamlines success for Certified Nursing Assistants. This concise and approachable textbook equips students with essential concepts for competent and compassionate practice whether they're training for long-term care, acute care, or another healthcare environment. With updated content including Pam's ... Read more

$74.96 CAD

Lippincott Essentials for Nursing Assistants: A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving, 6th edition, streamlines success for Certified Nursing Assistants. This concise and approachable textbook equips students with essential concepts for competent and compassionate practice whether they're training for long-term care, acute care, or another healthcare environment. With updated content including Pam's
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Anatomy of a Wrongful Death Lawsuit

by John Siko ...

In Anatomy of a Wrongful Death Lawsuit, journey alongside a determined man seeking justice against a healthcare provider responsible for his wife's tragic end. Stemming from a heartbreaking fall in May 2017, this riveting account spans a relentless four-year legal battle, culminating in a pivotal wrongful death lawsuit settlement in August 2021.Delving deep into Florida's Sovereign Immunity ... Read more

$6.16 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

In Anatomy of a Wrongful Death Lawsuit, journey alongside a determined man seeking justice against a healthcare provider responsible for his wife's tragic end. Stemming from a heartbreaking fall in May 2017, this riveting account spans a relentless four-year legal battle, culminating in a pivotal wrongful death lawsuit settlement in August 2021.Delving deep into Florida's Sovereign Immunity
... Read more
The Final Choice: End of Life Suffering

Is Assisted Dying the Answer?

by Caralise Trayes ...

A Kiwi journalist on the hunt for the truth about assisted dying and the End of Life Choice Act. Join her on a journey of discovery as she tells the stories of those with terminal illness and interviews lawyers, doctors, ethicists and clerics around New Zealand and the world."The decision about whether or not to legalise euthanasia is the single most important values decision of the 21st century." ... Read more

$7.82 CAD

A Kiwi journalist on the hunt for the truth about assisted dying and the End of Life Choice Act. Join her on a journey of discovery as she tells the stories of those with terminal illness and interviews lawyers, doctors, ethicists and clerics around New Zealand and the world."The decision about whether or not to legalise euthanasia is the single most important values decision of the 21st century."
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Qualitative Designs and Methods in Nursing (Set)

Edited by Mary De Chesnay, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN, Mary De Chesnay, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN ...

This is the first series to comprehensively address leading qualitative research designs and methods from a nursing perspective, and is a must-have for every research library. These are practical, how-to guides to conducting research using seven different qualitative designs that encompass new and traditional methodologies. Written by Dr. Mary de Chesnay, a noted qualitative research scholar, and ... Read more

$233.99 CAD

This is the first series to comprehensively address leading qualitative research designs and methods from a nursing perspective, and is a must-have for every research library. These are practical, how-to guides to conducting research using seven different qualitative designs that encompass new and traditional methodologies. Written by Dr. Mary de Chesnay, a noted qualitative research scholar, and
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