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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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In Shock

How Nearly Dying Made Me a Better Intensive Care Doctor

by Dr Rana Awdish ...

**'I read the first chapters at such a pace that I almost had to remind myself to breathe.' Sunday Times'Tense, powerful and gripping... her writing style is often nothing short of beautiful - evocative and emotional.' Adam Kay, ObserverAt seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her ... Read more

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**'I read the first chapters at such a pace that I almost had to remind myself to breathe.' Sunday Times'Tense, powerful and gripping... her writing style is often nothing short of beautiful - evocative and emotional.' Adam Kay, ObserverAt seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her
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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

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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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The Courage to Care

A Call for Compassion

by Christie Watson ...

Nurses have never been more important.'An inspiring book for our challenging times' Olivia ColemanWe benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes. When we feel most alone, nurses remind us that we are not alone at all.In The Courage to Care bestselling author Christie Watson reveals the remarkable extent of nurses' ... Read more

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Nurses have never been more important.'An inspiring book for our challenging times' Olivia ColemanWe benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes. When we feel most alone, nurses remind us that we are not alone at all.In The Courage to Care bestselling author Christie Watson reveals the remarkable extent of nurses'
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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

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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

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- 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
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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

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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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Sixty Years a Nurse: Part 2 of 3

by Mary Hazard ...

When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse’s training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later – one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses.For Mary, raised in a strict convent in rural south Ireland, working in her first London hospital was a shocking and life-changing experience. ... Read more

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When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse’s training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later – one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses.For Mary, raised in a strict convent in rural south Ireland, working in her first London hospital was a shocking and life-changing experience.
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At the Coalface: Part 3 of 3: 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

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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
Motivational Interviewing Techniques for Nurses

A comprehensive guide for Engaging Patients in Health Behavior Change

by Honor Victoria Frost, Clarissa Mary Fernandez ...

Motivational Interviewing Techniques for Nurses:A comprehensive guide for Engaging Patients in Health Behavior ChangeAre you a nurse seeking more effective ways to engage patients in managing their health? Do you face challenges with patient adherence or difficult conversations about behaviour change?This practical guide provides essential Motivational Interviewing (MI) techniques specifically ... Read more

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Motivational Interviewing Techniques for Nurses:A comprehensive guide for Engaging Patients in Health Behavior ChangeAre you a nurse seeking more effective ways to engage patients in managing their health? Do you face challenges with patient adherence or difficult conversations about behaviour change?This practical guide provides essential Motivational Interviewing (MI) techniques specifically
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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

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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

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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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Faith Community Nursing

Scope and Standards of Practice

by American Nurses Association, Health Ministries Association, Inc. ...

Faith community nursing is a nursing practice specialty that focuses on the intentional care of the spirit, the promotion of an integrative model of health, and the prevention and minimization of illness within the context of a faith community. Such practitioners consider the spiritual, physical, psychological, and social aspects of an individual to create a sense of harmony with self, others, the ... Read more

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Faith community nursing is a nursing practice specialty that focuses on the intentional care of the spirit, the promotion of an integrative model of health, and the prevention and minimization of illness within the context of a faith community. Such practitioners consider the spiritual, physical, psychological, and social aspects of an individual to create a sense of harmony with self, others, the
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Teaching IOM/HMD

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

by Anita Finkleman ...

This fully updated edition of 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 gives instructors what they need to help their students readily conceptualize how the reports influence and affect modern nursing practice. It introduces the concept of ... Read more

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This fully updated edition of 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 gives instructors what they need to help their students readily conceptualize how the reports influence and affect modern nursing practice. It introduces the concept of
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Bioethics

A Nursing Perspective

by Megan-Jane Johnstone ...

An essential resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and registered nurses to develop new insights and moral wisdom around ethical issues they will face in clinical practice. Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective, 6th Edition continues to set the standard for bioethical issues in nursing practice.As with previous editions, this highly respected text provides a comprehensive framework ... Read more

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An essential resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and registered nurses to develop new insights and moral wisdom around ethical issues they will face in clinical practice. Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective, 6th Edition continues to set the standard for bioethical issues in nursing practice.As with previous editions, this highly respected text provides a comprehensive framework
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Hai Visto il Vento

by Antonio Romano ...

Tornando indietro cambieremmo qualcosa della nostra vita? Zara studia infermieristica, figlia di un mondo nuovo proiettato in un futuro che sembra perfetto. Trasportata nel passato in cerca delle sue origini si imbatterà nelle avventure di Kairos, in conflitto con quotidianità, stereotipi, pregiudizi di una società vittima di apparenze, travolta emotivamente da intrecci, personaggi, ognuno con una ... Read more

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Tornando indietro cambieremmo qualcosa della nostra vita? Zara studia infermieristica, figlia di un mondo nuovo proiettato in un futuro che sembra perfetto. Trasportata nel passato in cerca delle sue origini si imbatterà nelle avventure di Kairos, in conflitto con quotidianità, stereotipi, pregiudizi di una società vittima di apparenze, travolta emotivamente da intrecci, personaggi, ognuno con una
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Nurse Leadership and Management

Foundations for Effective Administration

Edited by Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, Celeste M. Alfes, DNP, MSN, RN, CNE, CHSE-A, FAAN ...

"The authors of this book are innovators, strategists, provocateurs, transformational leaders, and compassionate clinicians. Their advice is based on evidence and years of experience and serves as a guide for leaders to overcome constraints and lead the nation to better health. While the content is foundational for new leaders and executives, the advice from these leaders is an inspiration to all. ... Read more

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"The authors of this book are innovators, strategists, provocateurs, transformational leaders, and compassionate clinicians. Their advice is based on evidence and years of experience and serves as a guide for leaders to overcome constraints and lead the nation to better health. While the content is foundational for new leaders and executives, the advice from these leaders is an inspiration to all.
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Evidence-Based Leadership, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Nursing and Healthcare

A Practical Guide to Success

Edited by Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN, Timothy Raderstorf ...

Delivers a practical leadership approach that will thrive in today’s healthcare environmentThis application-based text is designed to cultivate nursing and healthcare leaders who embrace the demands and opportunities of today’s healthcare environment, which is rooted in innovation. Authored by world-class innovators and leaders in evidence-based healthcare practice, the book provides proven ... Read more

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Delivers a practical leadership approach that will thrive in today’s healthcare environmentThis application-based text is designed to cultivate nursing and healthcare leaders who embrace the demands and opportunities of today’s healthcare environment, which is rooted in innovation. Authored by world-class innovators and leaders in evidence-based healthcare practice, the book provides proven
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Exploring Rituals in Nursing

Joining Art and Science

by Zane Wolf, PhD, RN, FAAN ...

During this tumultuous period in health care, it can be helpful for both students and practicing nurses to not only look forward to change but to look back at customs that have served nurses well over the years. This text examines a variety of nursing rituals in the context of caring science and evidence-based practice and demonstrates how understanding and incorporation of such rituals can have a ... Read more

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During this tumultuous period in health care, it can be helpful for both students and practicing nurses to not only look forward to change but to look back at customs that have served nurses well over the years. This text examines a variety of nursing rituals in the context of caring science and evidence-based practice and demonstrates how understanding and incorporation of such rituals can have a
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