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The Perinatal Nurses Guide to Avoiding a Lawsuit

by Patricia M. Connors, RN, MS, WHNP ...

In The Perinatal Nurses Guide to Avoiding a Lawsuit, Pat Connors shares her 10 years of experience and the expertise she acquired working as a legal nurse consultant and nurse expert. Working with both plaintiff and defense attorneys, combined with 40 years as a perinatal nurse, affords her a unique ability to educate perinatal nurses as to factors that might lead them to become involved in the ... Read more

$7.82 USD

In The Perinatal Nurses Guide to Avoiding a Lawsuit, Pat Connors shares her 10 years of experience and the expertise she acquired working as a legal nurse consultant and nurse expert. Working with both plaintiff and defense attorneys, combined with 40 years as a perinatal nurse, affords her a unique ability to educate perinatal nurses as to factors that might lead them to become involved in 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

$7.82 USD

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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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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Law for Nurse Leaders, Second Edition

by Diana Ballard, JD, MBA, RN, Paula DiMeo Grant, BSN, MA, JD, RN ...

Praise for the First Edition:"This book is so well written! I cannot say enough positive things about the material I have read. ...This is excellent material and should be a 'stock' book in the library of every nurse!"--Helen Gordon, DNP, MS, CNM, Assistant Professor, Duke School of NursingOne of the most hotly discussed and debated areas of society today, health care law carries a host of legal ... Read more

$72.08 USD

Praise for the First Edition:"This book is so well written! I cannot say enough positive things about the material I have read. ...This is excellent material and should be a 'stock' book in the library of every nurse!"--Helen Gordon, DNP, MS, CNM, Assistant Professor, Duke School of NursingOne of the most hotly discussed and debated areas of society today, health care law carries a host of legal
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Leininger's Transcultural Nursing: Concepts, Theories, Research & Practice, Fourth Edition

by Marilyn R. McFarland, Hiba B. Wehbe-Alamah ...

The Cornerstone Text on Transcultural Nursing Concepts – Updated with the Latest Advances and BreakthroughsA Doody’s Core Title for 2024 & 2021!Leininger’s Transcultural Nursing: Concepts, Theories, Research & Practices, Fourth Edition offers theoretical and practical guidance about the provision of client-focused care by integrating cultural values, beliefs, and lifeways into an individualized ... Read more

$69.29 USD

The Cornerstone Text on Transcultural Nursing Concepts – Updated with the Latest Advances and BreakthroughsA Doody’s Core Title for 2024 & 2021!Leininger’s Transcultural Nursing: Concepts, Theories, Research & Practices, Fourth Edition offers theoretical and practical guidance about the provision of client-focused care by integrating cultural values, beliefs, and lifeways into an individualized
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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

$3.49 USD

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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Social Theory, Health and Healthcare

by Orla McDonnell, Maria Lohan, Abbey Hyde, Sam Porter ...

Health research, education and provision have become increasingly interdisciplinary over the last few years, leading health professionals to broaden their knowledge beyond technical aspects of care. Practitioners now need a clear understanding of how society can affect health, and an appreciation of how societal structures can drive healthcare practices. In a clear, systematic and accessible style ... Read more

$40.50 USD

Health research, education and provision have become increasingly interdisciplinary over the last few years, leading health professionals to broaden their knowledge beyond technical aspects of care. Practitioners now need a clear understanding of how society can affect health, and an appreciation of how societal structures can drive healthcare practices. In a clear, systematic and accessible style
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A-Z of Professional Ethics

Essential Ideas for the Caring Professions

by Richard Hugman ...

Series series Professional Keywords
If you are looking for an accessible introduction to the essential concepts that define the field of professional ethics, then this is the book for you.Richard Hugman's A-Z of Professional Ethics offers a winning combination of breadth and concision, expertly organised to make usage intuitive and easy. Its simple A-Z structure will help you appreciate the architecture of ethics and give you a ... Read more

$20.69 USD

If you are looking for an accessible introduction to the essential concepts that define the field of professional ethics, then this is the book for you.Richard Hugman's A-Z of Professional Ethics offers a winning combination of breadth and concision, expertly organised to make usage intuitive and easy. Its simple A-Z structure will help you appreciate the architecture of ethics and give you a
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Nursing Scope of Practice

by Douglas Long ...

Nursing Scope of Practice is every nurse's guidebook to understanding this terrain. It strips away the confusion and provides a comprehensive, coherent explanation of the nursing scope of practice so nurses can work to the full extent of their abil ... Read more

$29.96 USD

Nursing Scope of Practice is every nurse's guidebook to understanding this terrain. It strips away the confusion and provides a comprehensive, coherent explanation of the nursing scope of practice so nurses can work to the full extent of their abil
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Ethics From the Ground Up

Emerging debates, changing practices and new voices in healthcare

Edited by Julie Wintrup, Hazel Biggs, Tula Brannelly, Angela Fenwick, Roger Ingham ...

This indispensable textbook explores the ethics of issues from the interpersonal to the political. Expanding on the traditional approach, the editors bring together a range of new perspectives on ethics that reflect the real life experiences and interests of those who work in health and care. Rather than describing abstract ideas and applying them to situations, this authoritative new book uses ... Read more

$29.69 USD

This indispensable textbook explores the ethics of issues from the interpersonal to the political. Expanding on the traditional approach, the editors bring together a range of new perspectives on ethics that reflect the real life experiences and interests of those who work in health and care. Rather than describing abstract ideas and applying them to situations, this authoritative new book uses
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The Sociology of Healthcare

A Reader for Health Professionals

Edited by Dr Sarah Earle, Dr Gayle Letherby ...

A comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the sociology of health. The Sociology of Healthcare will stimulate debate, reflexive practice and critical thinking in applied sociology and is aimed at the teaching and learning needs of both lecturers and students. ... Read more

$42.30 USD

A comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the sociology of health. The Sociology of Healthcare will stimulate debate, reflexive practice and critical thinking in applied sociology and is aimed at the teaching and learning needs of both lecturers and students.
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Nursing Ethics

A Principle-Based Approach

by Steven Edwards ...

This 2nd edition of the successful text, Nursing Ethics provides readers with a comprehensive grounding in the principle-based approach to resolving moral dilemmas. Fluent and well organized, this fully revised book is core reading for all nursing students and practitioners facing ethical copmplexities in clinical practice. ... Read more

$36.89 USD

This 2nd edition of the successful text, Nursing Ethics provides readers with a comprehensive grounding in the principle-based approach to resolving moral dilemmas. Fluent and well organized, this fully revised book is core reading for all nursing students and practitioners facing ethical copmplexities in clinical practice.
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Annual Review of Nursing Research, Volume 26, 2008

Focus on Rural Health

by Elizabeth Merwin, PhD, RN, FAAN, Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN ...

From reviews of the previous volume:"This volume should be quite useful to the target audience. It provides a good foundation for evidence-based practice and further research (4 stars)."--Doody's Book Review ServiceThe nursing community is continually challenged with expanding the empirical knowledge base that informs rural nursing practice. This volume of the prestigious Annual Review of Nursing ... Read more

$72.89 USD

From reviews of the previous volume:"This volume should be quite useful to the target audience. It provides a good foundation for evidence-based practice and further research (4 stars)."--Doody's Book Review ServiceThe nursing community is continually challenged with expanding the empirical knowledge base that informs rural nursing practice. This volume of the prestigious Annual Review of Nursing
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Global Health Nursing

Building and Sustaining Partnerships

by Jeanne Leffers, PhD, RN ...

"Primarily, the book covers different global health partnerships and initiatives, focusing on what works/what doesn't work and providing guidance for future partnerships. This is ideal for readers who focus their work in this area."--Doody's Medical ReviewsThis innovative text for graduate and undergraduate nursing students fills a void in global health nursing literature by providing essential ... Read more

$68.03 USD

"Primarily, the book covers different global health partnerships and initiatives, focusing on what works/what doesn't work and providing guidance for future partnerships. This is ideal for readers who focus their work in this area."--Doody's Medical ReviewsThis innovative text for graduate and undergraduate nursing students fills a void in global health nursing literature by providing essential
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Workplace Mental Health Manual for Nurse Managers

by Lisa Y. Adams, PhD, MSc, RN ...

"This text provides a comprehensive overview, if not thesis, of the contributing factors to workplace stress and how to revisit [them] and our own mental health. How can nurses and health care workplaces expect to offer health and healing when such basic foundational human dynamics of mental health are not addressed? This work opens the door to both the dynamics and the deep dimensions of the root ... Read more

$47.78 USD

"This text provides a comprehensive overview, if not thesis, of the contributing factors to workplace stress and how to revisit [them] and our own mental health. How can nurses and health care workplaces expect to offer health and healing when such basic foundational human dynamics of mental health are not addressed? This work opens the door to both the dynamics and the deep dimensions of the root
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Transitioning from RN to MSN

Principles of Professional Role Development

by Brenda Scott, DNP, RN, NHDP-BC, Mindy Thompson, DNP, RN, CNE ...

“This book gives every nurse or potential nurse a picture of possibility and a vision for a satisfying and sustainable career.”-Jan Jones-Schenk, DHSc, RN, NE-BCFrom the ForewordWritten and designed for RN to MSN students, Transitioning From RN to MSN focuses on the multitude of master’s-prepared roles available to a transitioning student, both as a nurse practitioner and beyond. This text delves ... Read more

$51.02 USD

“This book gives every nurse or potential nurse a picture of possibility and a vision for a satisfying and sustainable career.”-Jan Jones-Schenk, DHSc, RN, NE-BCFrom the ForewordWritten and designed for RN to MSN students, Transitioning From RN to MSN focuses on the multitude of master’s-prepared roles available to a transitioning student, both as a nurse practitioner and beyond. This text delves
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Comfort Theory and Practice

A Vision for Holistic Health Care and Research

by Katharine Kolcaba, PhD, RN, C ...

"I am most excited and impressed with the scope and focus of this work. As I began to read it, I had trouble putting it down. It is highly readable, engaging, all-inclusive, and most informative."Jean Watson, RN, PhD, HNC, FAAN"I am honored and delighted to recommend this text for all nurses who cared for and care about patients."from the Foreword by May Wykle, RN, PhD, FAANThis book places ... Read more

$55.07 USD

"I am most excited and impressed with the scope and focus of this work. As I began to read it, I had trouble putting it down. It is highly readable, engaging, all-inclusive, and most informative."Jean Watson, RN, PhD, HNC, FAAN"I am honored and delighted to recommend this text for all nurses who cared for and care about patients."from the Foreword by May Wykle, RN, PhD, FAANThis book places
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Team Leadership and Partnering in Nursing and Health Care

by Cynthia Armstrong Persily, PhD, RN, FAAN ...

"I enjoyed this book. It provides excellent information on the current use of healthcare teams and partnerships. It is a worthwhile resource for anyone interested in developing and working with healthcare teams." Score: 100, 5 Stars.--Doody's Medical ReviewsTeamwork is an undisputed asset for reducing nursing and medical errors, improving quality of patient care, resolving workload issues, and ... Read more

$50.21 USD

"I enjoyed this book. It provides excellent information on the current use of healthcare teams and partnerships. It is a worthwhile resource for anyone interested in developing and working with healthcare teams." Score: 100, 5 Stars.--Doody's Medical ReviewsTeamwork is an undisputed asset for reducing nursing and medical errors, improving quality of patient care, resolving workload issues, and
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Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Nursing

Enhancing Professional Quality of Life

by Vidette Todaro-Franceschi, PhD, RN, FT ...

Praise for Past Editions"This book is a vital read for individuals and the collective nursing profession… I encourage those who are concerned about the collective nursing profession, about what nurse educators are teaching students, about healthcare's high staff turnover and poor patient quality outcomes to consider reading and using this book." - M. R. Morrow, RN, PhD., Nursing Science Quarterly* ... Read more

$33.20 USD

Praise for Past Editions"This book is a vital read for individuals and the collective nursing profession… I encourage those who are concerned about the collective nursing profession, about what nurse educators are teaching students, about healthcare's high staff turnover and poor patient quality outcomes to consider reading and using this book." - M. R. Morrow, RN, PhD., Nursing Science Quarterly*
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Fast Facts for Patient Safety in Nursing

by Deborah Dolan Hunt, PhD, RN ...

Series series Fast Facts
"This unique Fast Fact serves as a quick resource for foundational, relevant data, knowledge, and vital information, not only about the nature of medical errors, but why they occur. More importantly, Hunt shows us how to comprehensively address problems: highlighting the need for both academic and clinical professional development, emphasizing approaches, as theory-informed practices; ... Read more

$36.44 USD

"This unique Fast Fact serves as a quick resource for foundational, relevant data, knowledge, and vital information, not only about the nature of medical errors, but why they occur. More importantly, Hunt shows us how to comprehensively address problems: highlighting the need for both academic and clinical professional development, emphasizing approaches, as theory-informed practices;
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The Rebel Nurse Handbook

Inspirational Stories by Shift Disruptors

Edited by Rebecca Love, RN, BS, MSN, FIEL, Nancy Hanrahan, PhD, RN, FAAN, Mary Lou Ackerman, BScN, MBA, Amy Rose Taylor, AGNP-BC, BSN, RN, Beth Toner, RN, MJ, MSN, Faith Lawlor, RN ...

Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award of 2020!“As you will read the stories ahead of the incredible, rock star Rebel Nurses who each have challenged the status quo and chosen the road less traveled, remember that each journey has its own period of self-doubt, fear of failure, and uncertainty of success—but they persevered. We hope that these stories will inspire you to believe in yourself and ... Read more

$25.64 USD

Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award of 2020!“As you will read the stories ahead of the incredible, rock star Rebel Nurses who each have challenged the status quo and chosen the road less traveled, remember that each journey has its own period of self-doubt, fear of failure, and uncertainty of success—but they persevered. We hope that these stories will inspire you to believe in yourself and
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Innovative Strategies in Teaching Nursing

Exemplars of Optimal Learning Outcomes

Edited by Emerson Ea, DNP, APRN-BC, CEN, Celeste M. Alfes, DNP, MSN, RN, CNE, CHSE-A, FAAN ...

Note to Readers: Publisher does not guarantee quality or access to any included digital components if book is purchased through a third-party seller.This innovative text delivers more than 40 evidence-based teaching strategies that educators can use to engage nursing students and enhance their learning in a variety of teaching environments. It provides a wealth of new teaching designs both novice ... Read more

$65.60 USD

Note to Readers: Publisher does not guarantee quality or access to any included digital components if book is purchased through a third-party seller.This innovative text delivers more than 40 evidence-based teaching strategies that educators can use to engage nursing students and enhance their learning in a variety of teaching environments. It provides a wealth of new teaching designs both novice
... Read more
Guidelines for Nursing Excellence in the Care of Children, Youth, and Families Second Edition

Edited by Cecily Betz, PhD, RN, FAAN, Marilyn Krajicek, PhD, RN, FAAN, Martha Craft-Rosenberg, PhD, RN, FAAN ...

First Edition Designated a Doody's Core Title and Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!This distinguished title, written by nationally recognized nursing experts in health care and pediatrics, delivers the most current evidence-based practice standards and their application. These guidelines, developed through systematic consensus-building led by the AAN’s Child, Adolescent, and Family Expert ... Read more

$55.07 USD

First Edition Designated a Doody's Core Title and Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!This distinguished title, written by nationally recognized nursing experts in health care and pediatrics, delivers the most current evidence-based practice standards and their application. These guidelines, developed through systematic consensus-building led by the AAN’s Child, Adolescent, and Family Expert
... Read more
Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist Certification Review

Edited by Amy Shay, PhD, RN, APRN-CNS, FCNS, Jan Powers, PhD, RN, CCRN, CCNS, CNRN, NE-BC, FCCM, Terry A. Doescher, MSN, RN, CNS-BC, CCRC ...

Co-Published with the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) to provide you with invaluable guidance for acing your Adult-Gerontology CNS exam!This comprehensive review manual provides the ultimate resource for either the AACN Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist Wellness Through Acute Care (ACCNS-AG) or the ANCC Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist (AGCNS-BC) ... Read more

$72.89 USD

Co-Published with the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) to provide you with invaluable guidance for acing your Adult-Gerontology CNS exam!This comprehensive review manual provides the ultimate resource for either the AACN Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist Wellness Through Acute Care (ACCNS-AG) or the ANCC Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist (AGCNS-BC)
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