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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
... Read more
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

$11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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
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
... Read more
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
... Read more
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
... Read more
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
... Read more
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
... Read more
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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Importing Care, Faithful Service

Filipino and Indian American Nurses at a Veterans Hospital

by Stephen M. Cherry ...

Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Every year thousands of foreign-born Filipino and Indian nurses immigrate to the United States. Despite being well trained and desperately needed, they enter the country at a time, not unlike the past, when the American social and political climate is once again increasingly unwelcoming to them as immigrants. Drawing on rich ethnographic and survey data, collected over a four-year period, this ... Read more

$29.69 CAD

Every year thousands of foreign-born Filipino and Indian nurses immigrate to the United States. Despite being well trained and desperately needed, they enter the country at a time, not unlike the past, when the American social and political climate is once again increasingly unwelcoming to them as immigrants. Drawing on rich ethnographic and survey data, collected over a four-year period, this
... Read more
Associated Factors of Low Back Pain Among Jordanian nurses

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by alaa selmi ...

This book is master thesis about ( Low Back Pain ) among nurses , Discuss the problem and develop solutions in a scientific framework. Based on scientific researchs ... Read more

$5.53 CAD

This book is master thesis about ( Low Back Pain ) among nurses , Discuss the problem and develop solutions in a scientific framework. Based on scientific researchs
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Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care - E-Book

Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care - E-Book

by Diana J. Mason, Deborah B Gardner, Freida Hopkins Outlaw, Eileen T. O'Grady ...

Featuring analysis of cutting-edge healthcare issues and first-person stories, Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care, 7th Edition is the leader in helping students develop skills in influencing policy in today's changing health care environment. Approximately 150 expert contributors present a wide range of topics in this classic text, providing a more complete background than can be found ... Read more

$105.83 CAD

Featuring analysis of cutting-edge healthcare issues and first-person stories, Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care, 7th Edition is the leader in helping students develop skills in influencing policy in today's changing health care environment. Approximately 150 expert contributors present a wide range of topics in this classic text, providing a more complete background than can be found
... Read more
What Would Florence Do?

A Guide for New Nurse Managers

by Sue Johnson ...

ANA’s What Would Florence Do? A Guide for New Nurse Managers, is designed to help nurses excel in their management roles, regardless of tenure. This publication is an excellent resource that all CNOs or health care HR professionals can provide to their new and existing nurse management staff as an essential training guide. Being a nurse manager is a tremendous responsibility and an exciting ... Read more

$23.39 CAD

ANA’s What Would Florence Do? A Guide for New Nurse Managers, is designed to help nurses excel in their management roles, regardless of tenure. This publication is an excellent resource that all CNOs or health care HR professionals can provide to their new and existing nurse management staff as an essential training guide. Being a nurse manager is a tremendous responsibility and an exciting
... Read more
Learning IOM/HMD

Implications of the Institute of Medicine and Health & Medicine Division Reports for Nursing Education

by Anita Finkleman ...

This revised companion book to Teaching IOM/HMD: Implications of the Institute of Medicine and Health & Medicine Division Reports for Nursing Education brings the IOM and HMD reports to life for learners. The easy-to-follow guidance helps students and nurses in professional development easily conceptualize how the reports influence and affect modern nursing practice. It introduces the concept of ... Read more

$28.70 CAD

This revised companion book to Teaching IOM/HMD: Implications of the Institute of Medicine and Health & Medicine Division Reports for Nursing Education brings the IOM and HMD reports to life for learners. The easy-to-follow guidance helps students and nurses in professional development easily conceptualize how the reports influence and affect modern nursing practice. It introduces the concept of
... Read more
Notes on Nursing

What it Is, and What it Is Not

by Florence Nightingale ...

Neither in my own nursing education at the B.S.N. nor at the M.S.N. level, was it even suggested, much less required, that I read any of Florence Nightingale's original writings. Even as a nurse educator for over 30 years, I did not require my students to read her writings either. After reading this book, I now believe it is a void in the education of a nurse not to read at least some of the ... Read more

$1.34 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Neither in my own nursing education at the B.S.N. nor at the M.S.N. level, was it even suggested, much less required, that I read any of Florence Nightingale's original writings. Even as a nurse educator for over 30 years, I did not require my students to read her writings either. After reading this book, I now believe it is a void in the education of a nurse not to read at least some of the
... Read more
Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions - E-Book

Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions - E-Book

by Regina F. Doherty, Ruth B. Purtilo ...

Learn to recognize, understand, and resolve ethical problems in the workplace with Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions, 6th Edition. Ideal for all practicing and aspiring healthcare professionals, this unique text gives readers a solid foundation in basic ethical theory, the terms and concepts of ethics, and the numerous ethical issues surrounding health care today. The new sixth edition ... Read more

$69.11 CAD

Learn to recognize, understand, and resolve ethical problems in the workplace with Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions, 6th Edition. Ideal for all practicing and aspiring healthcare professionals, this unique text gives readers a solid foundation in basic ethical theory, the terms and concepts of ethics, and the numerous ethical issues surrounding health care today. The new sixth edition
... Read more
Sociology in Nursing and Healthcare E-Book

Sociology in Nursing and Healthcare E-Book

by Hannah Cooke ...

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Nursing practice needs to be informed by an understanding of people and the societies in which they live. This introductory text has been designed specifically to discuss those aspects of sociology which are most relevant to nursing and the health care context in which it takes place.•A user-friendly ... Read more

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This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Nursing practice needs to be informed by an understanding of people and the societies in which they live. This introductory text has been designed specifically to discuss those aspects of sociology which are most relevant to nursing and the health care context in which it takes place.•A user-friendly
... Read more
Chronic Illness and Disability

Principles for Nursing Practice

by Esther Chang, Amanda Johnson ...

An updated edition of the essential nursing guide to a 21st-century 'epidemic'.Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide and, increasingly, nurses in Australia and New Zealand are caring for people with chronic disease and disability across a range of care settings. This new edition of Chronic Illness and Disability: Principles for Nursing Practice is an indispensible tool, helping ... Read more

$87.83 CAD

An updated edition of the essential nursing guide to a 21st-century 'epidemic'.Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide and, increasingly, nurses in Australia and New Zealand are caring for people with chronic disease and disability across a range of care settings. This new edition of Chronic Illness and Disability: Principles for Nursing Practice is an indispensible tool, helping
... Read more
Intellectual Disability Nursing

An Oral History Project

by Bob Gates, Colin Griffiths, Helen L. Atherton, Su McAnelly, Paul Keenan, Sandra Fleming, Carmel Doyle, Michelle Cleary, Paul Sutton ...

Series series Emerald Points
This unique monograph, based on empirical research, used the oral history approach to explore the careers of 31 intellectual disability nurses from England and the Republic of Ireland; each with at least 30 years' experience.We sought to understand motives for such long service to nursing practice. Some had worked in the intellectual disability hospitals of the 19th and 20th Centuries. In both ... Read more

$48.50 CAD

This unique monograph, based on empirical research, used the oral history approach to explore the careers of 31 intellectual disability nurses from England and the Republic of Ireland; each with at least 30 years' experience.We sought to understand motives for such long service to nursing practice. Some had worked in the intellectual disability hospitals of the 19th and 20th Centuries. In both
... Read more
The Good Samaritan Nurse in a Secular Age

by Teresa Lynch ...

Christian and other nurses in the hostile modern and increasingly secular age may feel helpless in an environment that created the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) and continues to foster end of life 'care' through sedation and dehydration. The book aims to enlighten both health professionals and the public alike to their rights of conscience and knowledge of the needs of vulnerable patients whether ... Read more

$19.61 CAD

Christian and other nurses in the hostile modern and increasingly secular age may feel helpless in an environment that created the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) and continues to foster end of life 'care' through sedation and dehydration. The book aims to enlighten both health professionals and the public alike to their rights of conscience and knowledge of the needs of vulnerable patients whether
... Read more
Health Equity and Nursing

Achieving Equity Through Policy, Population Health, and Interprofessional Collaboration

Edited by Margaret P. Moss, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN, Janice Phillips, PhD, RN, CENP, FAAN ...

Authored by highly respected nurse educators, leaders, and scholars, this text focuses on the power of nurses and how they can make substantial contributions to improve the health of all populations. It delivers an in-depth examination and analysis of current issues and determinants of health as outlined by Healthy People 2020 and addresses AACN’s Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced ... Read more

$91.43 CAD

Authored by highly respected nurse educators, leaders, and scholars, this text focuses on the power of nurses and how they can make substantial contributions to improve the health of all populations. It delivers an in-depth examination and analysis of current issues and determinants of health as outlined by Healthy People 2020 and addresses AACN’s Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced
... Read more

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