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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
... Read more
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;
... Read more
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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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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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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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

$30.50 USD

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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False Dawn

The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing

by Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, Sandra B. Lewenson ...

Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Since its initial publication in 1989 by Garland Publishing, Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing remains the definitive work on the creation, work, successes, and failures of public health nursing in the United States. False Dawn explores and answers the provocative question: why did a movement that became a significant vehicle for the delivery of ... Read more

$18.80 USD

Since its initial publication in 1989 by Garland Publishing, Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing remains the definitive work on the creation, work, successes, and failures of public health nursing in the United States. False Dawn explores and answers the provocative question: why did a movement that became a significant vehicle for the delivery of
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Monitoring Tissue Perfusion and Oxygenation, An Issue of Critical Nursing Clinics

by Shannan Hamlin ...

Series Book Volume 26-3 - The Clinics: Nursing
Critical care clinicians must be knowledgeable about the anatomic, physiologic, and biochemical processes that are critical to the restoration of a functioning microvascular affecting organ perfusion. These basic physiologic processes critical to tissue perfusion and cellular oxygenation are presented in this issue on Monitoring Tissue Perfusion and Oxygenation. A working knowledge of oxygen ... Read more

$68.03 USD

Critical care clinicians must be knowledgeable about the anatomic, physiologic, and biochemical processes that are critical to the restoration of a functioning microvascular affecting organ perfusion. These basic physiologic processes critical to tissue perfusion and cellular oxygenation are presented in this issue on Monitoring Tissue Perfusion and Oxygenation. A working knowledge of oxygen
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Essentials of Law for Health Professionals - eBook

by Kim Forrester, Debra Griffiths ...

Perfect for: - • Bachelor of Nursing students - • Diploma of Nursing students - • Bachelor of Midwifery students - • Bachelor of Paramedicine students - • Bachelor of Health science students - • Post graduate Nursing and Midwifery students Essentials of Law for Health Professionals 4e provides students with the information and knowledge necessary to make well-informed and considered decisions ... Read more

$70.46 USD

Perfect for: - • Bachelor of Nursing students - • Diploma of Nursing students - • Bachelor of Midwifery students - • Bachelor of Paramedicine students - • Bachelor of Health science students - • Post graduate Nursing and Midwifery students Essentials of Law for Health Professionals 4e provides students with the information and knowledge necessary to make well-informed and considered decisions
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Difficult Conversations in Nursing & Healthcare: A Practical Guide to Speaking Up with Confidence and Compassion

Difficult Conversations, #1

by Rachael Benson ...

Series Book 1 - Difficult Conversations
In healthcare, silence can be costly. From safeguarding concerns and end-of-life care to workplace bullying and systemic bias, nurses, midwives, and health visitors face emotionally charged conversations every day. Yet many feel underprepared, unsupported, or afraid to speak up.This essential guide empowers professionals to navigate difficult conversations with clarity, empathy, and courage. ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In healthcare, silence can be costly. From safeguarding concerns and end-of-life care to workplace bullying and systemic bias, nurses, midwives, and health visitors face emotionally charged conversations every day. Yet many feel underprepared, unsupported, or afraid to speak up.This essential guide empowers professionals to navigate difficult conversations with clarity, empathy, and courage.
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Radiologic and Imaging Nursing

Scope and Standards of Practice, 3rd Edition

by American Nurses Association, Association for Radiologic & Imaging Nursing ...

The Radiologic and Imaging Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 3rd Edition is an essential document for every radiologic and imaging nurse practicing in the United States. The scope of practice statement answers the who, what, when, where, how, and why questions of radiologic and imaging nursing. The standards provide authoritative statements of the actions and behaviors that all radiologic ... Read more

$24.02 USD

The Radiologic and Imaging Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 3rd Edition is an essential document for every radiologic and imaging nurse practicing in the United States. The scope of practice statement answers the who, what, when, where, how, and why questions of radiologic and imaging nursing. The standards provide authoritative statements of the actions and behaviors that all radiologic
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing

by Joseph DeMarco, Gary Jones, Barbara Daly ...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the many ethical and legal issues that arise in the practice of nursing. Ethical analysis is supplemented with rigorous discussion of precedents from the American legal system as well as the requirements of professional codes operating at the national and state levels. Topics include informed consent, end-of-life treatment, impaired decisional capacity, ... Read more

$54.99 USD

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the many ethical and legal issues that arise in the practice of nursing. Ethical analysis is supplemented with rigorous discussion of precedents from the American legal system as well as the requirements of professional codes operating at the national and state levels. Topics include informed consent, end-of-life treatment, impaired decisional capacity,
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Toevallige ontmoetingen

Bio-ethiek voor een gehavende planeet

by Kristien Hens ...

In dit rigoureuze en noodzakelijke boek brengt Kristien Hens bio-ethiek en filosofie van de biologie bij elkaar, met het argument dat het ethisch noodzakelijk is om in het wetenschappelijk onderzoek een plaatsje vrij te houden voor de filosofen. Hun rol is behalve ethisch ook conceptueel: zij kunnen de kwaliteit en de coherentie van het wetenschappelijk onderzoek verbeteren door erop toe te zien ... Read more

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In dit rigoureuze en noodzakelijke boek brengt Kristien Hens bio-ethiek en filosofie van de biologie bij elkaar, met het argument dat het ethisch noodzakelijk is om in het wetenschappelijk onderzoek een plaatsje vrij te houden voor de filosofen. Hun rol is behalve ethisch ook conceptueel: zij kunnen de kwaliteit en de coherentie van het wetenschappelijk onderzoek verbeteren door erop toe te zien
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At the Limits of Care

Gendered Work and Stories That Matter

by Janna Klostermann ...

For author Janna Klostermann, reaching her limits and resigning from care work felt like a crisis of self. In the aftermath of this upheaval, this is the book she needed to write. At the Limits of Care will change how you think about care work and about the women who provide it.Now an assistant professor in sociology and a radical care scholar, Klostermann interrogates women’s counter-stories of ... Read more

$16.19 USD

For author Janna Klostermann, reaching her limits and resigning from care work felt like a crisis of self. In the aftermath of this upheaval, this is the book she needed to write. At the Limits of Care will change how you think about care work and about the women who provide it.Now an assistant professor in sociology and a radical care scholar, Klostermann interrogates women’s counter-stories of
... Read more
Nursing and Humanities

by Graham McCaffrey ...

Series series Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery
The humanities have long been recognized as having a place in nursing knowledge, and have been used in education, theory, and research by nurses. However, the place of humanities in nursing has always remained ambiguous. This book offers an in-depth exploration of the relationship between humanities and nursing.The book starts with a survey of the history of humanities in nursing, in comparison ... Read more

$58.49 USD

The humanities have long been recognized as having a place in nursing knowledge, and have been used in education, theory, and research by nurses. However, the place of humanities in nursing has always remained ambiguous. This book offers an in-depth exploration of the relationship between humanities and nursing.The book starts with a survey of the history of humanities in nursing, in comparison
... Read more
Forensic Nursing

by Kelly M. Pyrek ...

Written by an award-winning investigative journalist with more than twenty years of experience, Forensic Nursing takes an objective yet engaging look at a profession that according to the author, is only for those with a strong stomach, a pure heart, and a quick mind. It presents the personal experiences and perspectives of forensic nurses that work in all areas of forensic and critical care ... Read more

$274.50 USD

Written by an award-winning investigative journalist with more than twenty years of experience, Forensic Nursing takes an objective yet engaging look at a profession that according to the author, is only for those with a strong stomach, a pure heart, and a quick mind. It presents the personal experiences and perspectives of forensic nurses that work in all areas of forensic and critical care
... Read more
Professional Space of Care

Emergence of Advanced Nursing Practice in France and Japan

by Maryse Boulongne-Garcin, Corinne Grenier, Tetsu Harayama, Tsumako Kawasaki, Rieko Yamashita ...

Although medical specialisation can be credited with many of the advancements of modern medicine, it also poses obstacles to the delivery of healthcare. Such obstacles are increasingly prevalent in the treatment of the chronic conditions and poly-morbidities of aging populations, where specialisation can be a barrier to the coordination and cooperation required to provide comprehensive care.This ... Read more

$19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Although medical specialisation can be credited with many of the advancements of modern medicine, it also poses obstacles to the delivery of healthcare. Such obstacles are increasingly prevalent in the treatment of the chronic conditions and poly-morbidities of aging populations, where specialisation can be a barrier to the coordination and cooperation required to provide comprehensive care.This
... Read more
Nursing, COVID and the End of Resilience

A Critical Approach

by Michael Traynor ...

This book looks at the way in which resilience has been promoted as a resource for nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic and addresses its limitations as a response to the potential trauma of working in intense healthcare contexts. Traynor examines the nature of trauma and moral distress in nursing work, which predates the most recent pandemic that brought it into sharp relief, and links this to ... Read more

$50.39 USD

This book looks at the way in which resilience has been promoted as a resource for nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic and addresses its limitations as a response to the potential trauma of working in intense healthcare contexts. Traynor examines the nature of trauma and moral distress in nursing work, which predates the most recent pandemic that brought it into sharp relief, and links this to
... Read more
Health and Health Care Inequities

A Critical Political Economy Perspective

by Arnel M. Borras ...

This book provides an in-depth examination of health and health care inequities, delving into the interplay between power dynamics, policy advocacy, evidence-based research, and political economy. It uniquely integrates document and interview data to critically analyze how inequalities related to class, race, ethnicity, and gender contribute to health inequities. By exploring the roles of various ... Read more

$26.99 USD

This book provides an in-depth examination of health and health care inequities, delving into the interplay between power dynamics, policy advocacy, evidence-based research, and political economy. It uniquely integrates document and interview data to critically analyze how inequalities related to class, race, ethnicity, and gender contribute to health inequities. By exploring the roles of various
... Read more
Wie wollen wir sterben?

Ein ärztliches Plädoyer für eine neue Sterbekultur in Zeiten der Hochleistungsmedizin

by Michael de Ridder ...

Sterben dürfen – die Streitschrift eines ArztesDie Würde des Menschen muss auch und gerade bei unheilbar kranken und alten Menschen respektiert und bewahrt bleiben. Viel zu oft allerdings setzen sich Ärzte über den Willen ihrer Patienten hinweg, tun alles, was medizinisch und technisch möglich ist, und tragen so eher zur qualvollen Sterbeverzögerung als zur sinnvollen Lebensverlängerung bei. Aber ... Read more

$13.67 USD

Sterben dürfen – die Streitschrift eines ArztesDie Würde des Menschen muss auch und gerade bei unheilbar kranken und alten Menschen respektiert und bewahrt bleiben. Viel zu oft allerdings setzen sich Ärzte über den Willen ihrer Patienten hinweg, tun alles, was medizinisch und technisch möglich ist, und tragen so eher zur qualvollen Sterbeverzögerung als zur sinnvollen Lebensverlängerung bei. Aber
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Taking Action

by Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, Gaea A. Daniel, PhD, RN ...

Series Book 20230201 - 20230201
The crucible of the global pandemic, racial injustice, and a crippling nursing shortage has sparked increasing calls for nursing to address its own problems from inequity to structural racism. In response, authors Susan B. Hassmiller and Gaea A. Daniel enlisted nearly 70 national and international nursing leaders to tackle the most pressing issues confronting the profession. Taking Action: Top 10 ... Read more

$22.67 USD

The crucible of the global pandemic, racial injustice, and a crippling nursing shortage has sparked increasing calls for nursing to address its own problems from inequity to structural racism. In response, authors Susan B. Hassmiller and Gaea A. Daniel enlisted nearly 70 national and international nursing leaders to tackle the most pressing issues confronting the profession. Taking Action: Top 10
... Read more
So, You Wanna Be A Travel Nurse?

An Insider's Guide to Getting Started

by Constance Buccere ...

Is becoming a travel nurse your goal?Then this book is a must-read and you'll be glad you did.The author of this insider's guide has been in the industry for a decade and offers her inspiring, honest, and detail-oriented advice in a streamlined process from your choice to be a travel nurse, through your initial application, and to the end of your first travel assignment.Equip yourself with the ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Is becoming a travel nurse your goal?Then this book is a must-read and you'll be glad you did.The author of this insider's guide has been in the industry for a decade and offers her inspiring, honest, and detail-oriented advice in a streamlined process from your choice to be a travel nurse, through your initial application, and to the end of your first travel assignment.Equip yourself with the
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Nightingale's Legacy

The Evolution of American Nurse Leaders

by Sue Johnson ...

Nightingale’s Legacy: The Evolution of American Nurse Leaders shows “the nurses of today” how to leverage the wisdom of the icons of nursing to inform their own daily work and fuel the future of nursing. The book examines the pivotal historical achievements of 20 prominent nurse leaders from Florence Nightingale’s time to the present. Included in this must-have text are lessons on patient-centered ... Read more

$16.19 USD

Nightingale’s Legacy: The Evolution of American Nurse Leaders shows “the nurses of today” how to leverage the wisdom of the icons of nursing to inform their own daily work and fuel the future of nursing. The book examines the pivotal historical achievements of 20 prominent nurse leaders from Florence Nightingale’s time to the present. Included in this must-have text are lessons on patient-centered
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