Nursing

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Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques
by: Anne Griffin Perry, Patricia A. Potter
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Edition: 6th
Media: Paperback
EAN: 9780323028394
ISBN: 032302839X
Number Of Pages: 1408
Publication Date: 2005-06-21
Publisher: Mosby

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This market-leading text is well known for its reliable, comprehensive coverage of over 200 complete skills. Heavily illustrated, each skill follows the nursing process framework and is presented in an easy-to-follow, two-column format with rationales for each step. This edition retains such popular features as guidelines at the beginning of each chapter, delegation principles for each skill, special considerations for various age groups and care settings, and unexpected outcomes with related nursing interventions. Plus, expanded coverage of cultural and pediatric considerations, new skills, and new features make this edition better than ever!

Comprehensive coverage of over 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills.
Nursing process framework provides a logical, consistent presentation.
Over 1,100 vivid, full-color photographs and drawings aid understanding.
Rationales for each step in the skill explain why steps are performed in a specific way.
Delegation Principles for each skill discuss the nurse's responsibilities when assigning tasks to assistive personnel.
UNIQUE! Critical Decision Points address key information to consider when performing skills to ensure effective outcomes and promote safety.
Skill Performance Guidelines at the beginning of each chapter provide guidelines applicable to all skills in the chapter.
Expected outcomes identify the anticipated client response to the procedure.
Reporting and recording guidelines in each skill include what to document and examples of how to word it.
Considerations for client teaching, pediatric, geriatric, long-term care, and home care address specific needs.
Critical thinking exercises at the end of each chapter promote development of decision-making abilities.

New skills and procedural guidelines include: communicating with the depressed client; fire, electrical, and radiation safety; local analgesic infusion pump; supporting clients and families in grief; symptom management in palliative care; care of clients with immobilization devices; selection of support surface/mattress (Procedural Guideline); eye irrigation; noninvasive automatic BP; wound vacuum assisted closure; measuring occult blood in gastric secretions; and use of the automatic external defibrillator (AED).
A new Disaster Preparedness chapter and added coverage of code management address current practice issues.
Pediatric variations and considerations covered in greater depth.
Cultural Implications sections focus on providing culturally-sensitive care.
Evidence-Based Practice Trends at the beginning of each chapter provide an overview of recent research findings and implications for skills included in the chapter.
Focus on Clinical Practice at the end of each chapter presents case scenarios and critical thinking questions that address issues involving topics that include unexpected outcomes and cultural considerations.
Two-column format for Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions presents information in an easy-to-follow format.

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Study Guide and Skills Performance Checklists for Fundamentals of Nursing
by: Patricia A. Potter, Anne Griffin Perry
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Edition: 7
Media: Paperback
EAN: 9780323052511
ISBN: 0323052517
Number Of Pages: 392
Publication Date: 2008-05-19
Publisher: Mosby

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Reinforce what youve learned in Fundamentals of Nursing, 7th Edition with this detailed, chapter-by-chapter review guide. Each chapter provides exercises that challenge your understanding of key concepts and performance checklists to help you assess your skill technique.

Preliminary Readings refer you to the related text chapter.
Comprehensive Understanding sections test your understanding of key topics.
Review Questions help you prepare for the NCLEX¥ examination.
Critical Thinking Model exercises help you to apply what you¡¦ve learned.
Performance Checklists for each skill in the text help you evaluate your technique.

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Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice
by: Sandra M Nettina
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Edition: 8
Media: Hardcover
EAN: 9781582553429
ISBN: 1582553424
Number Of Pages: 1888
Publication Date: 2005-05-01
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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Completely updated for its Eighth Edition, this full-color classic reference is the one source every nurse needs for essential patient assessment and treatment guidelines. In an easy-to-read outline format, this clinically focused guide covers all disorders and patient problems in Medical-Surgical, Maternal-Neonatal, Pediatric, and Psychiatric nursing, and includes over 150 step-by-step procedures. Each Eighth Edition chapter incorporates and identifies official guidelines that shape clinical practice. New and expanded material includes several new orthopaedic, connective tissue, infectious, and dermatologic conditions, patient safety, personal safety, culturally sensitive care, HIPAA, palliative care, advocacy for the disabled, chest physical therapy, interventional cardiology, hyperbaric therapy, neurologic findings, intracranial monitoring systems, vertebral compression fracture, immunization information, emerging infections, biological weapons preparedness, pediatric asthma guidelines, substance-related disorders, and adolescent problems.

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Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty (Billings, Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty)
by: Diane M. Billings, Judith A. Halstead
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Edition: 3
Media: Paperback
EAN: 9781416040842
ISBN: 1416040846
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: 2008-01-24
Publisher: Saunders

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This complete faculty guide covers the four major components of the educator role teaching, curriculum, information technology, and evaluation of students and programs with comprehensive, contemporary guidelines to help you develop the educator competencies needed to ensure your success in todays complex health care and academic environments. This respected title is also one of the National League for Nursings recommended resources for nurses preparing to take the Certified Nurse Educator examination.

Nationally recognized contributing authors share their expertise to bring you the best and most comprehensive information available.
Presents innovative models of clinical teaching that show you how to effectively teach in an interdisciplinary setting, how to evaluate students in the clinical setting, and how to adapt your teaching for community-based practice.li>
Strategies to promote critical thinking and active learning, including evaluation techniques, lesson planning, and constructing examinations, help you ensure students can apply and synthesize nursing content to make clinical decisions.li>
Web links with numerous resources related to each chapter topic, available through the Evolve website, provide even more learning opportunities.

Managing the Learning Environment chapter addresses classroom management and control, motivating and engaging students, and handling disruptive or problem students.
Multicultural Education chapter provides strategies for effectively teaching and communicating with a culturally diverse student population.
An entire chapter on simulations presents the development, implementation, and evaluation of simulations so you can successfully integrate this teaching method into your course.
Reflecting on the Evidence feature at the end of each chapter provides questions that are perfect for classroom and online discussion.

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Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice
by: Nancy Burns, Susan K. Grove
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Edition: 4
Media: Paperback
EAN: 9781416026402
ISBN: 1416026401
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: 2006-09-12
Publisher: Saunders

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Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice, 4th Edition is a market-leading textbook written by two of the most renowned experts in the nursing research field. Now in full-color, this thoroughly updated 4th edition reflects today's emphasis on evidence-based practice. Refined format and features enhance the book's readability and bring include examples and critiques that help students better understand the concepts. The book also features an enhanced emphasis on the emerging, cost-driven field of outcomes research, as well as an improved balance of quantitative and qualitative research. In addition to a full complement of student and faculty ancillaries, a companion Nursing Research Online course is now available for separate purchase with this edition.

Written by two of the leaders in the field of nursing research, the book presents time-tested content with ideal breadth, depth, and readability for students.
Research Examples throughout the text illustrate key concepts with excerpts from the best of the nursing and health sciences literature.
Critiquing Guidelines provide a systematic tool for critiquing published research studies.
Example Critiques demonstrate how to critique an article with excerpts from published studies.
A full Sample Critique of an entire quantitative study helps students synthesize the critiquing skills they have developed through the preceding chapters.
A comprehensive Glossary serves as a convenient quick reference.

Includes a fresh emphasis on the role of nursing research in building an evidence-based practice, with in-depth Research Examples now concluding with Implications for Practice.
A new Outcomes Research chapter addresses this emerging, cost-driven discipline.
Redesigned Critiquing Guidelines offer expert advice on evaluating research articles.
New Sample Critique of a qualitative study complements the quantitative critique.
Tips for Further Study identifies concepts in each chapter students tend to have the most trouble with and points them to corresponding sections in the Study Guide and the Evolve resources for further study.

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All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans (All-In-One Care Planning Resource: Med-Surg, Peds, Maternity, & Psychiatric Nursing)
by: Pamela L. Swearingen
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Edition: 2
Media: Paperback
EAN: 9780323044165
ISBN: 0323044166
Number Of Pages: 862
Publication Date: 2007-09-24
Publisher: Mosby

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Unlike any other care plan book on the market, this resource contains selected care plans for pediatric, maternity, and psychiatric nursing in addition to medical-surgical nursing care plans for adult care. This is the only care planning resource that allows you to use one book throughout your nursing curriculum. Color-coded medical-surgical, maternity, pediatric, and psychiatric sections help you quickly find each content area while giving the book a full-color look and feel.

Clinical experts update each subject area to ensure the most current, accurate, and clinically relevant content available.
Each care plan employs a consistent format of Overview/Pathophysiology, Health Care Setting, Assessment, Diagnostic Tests, Nursing Diagnoses, Desired Outcomes, Interventions with Rationales, and Patient-Family Teaching and Discharge Planning.
An open and attractive two-color design facilitates quick and easy retrieval of information.
Nursing interventions and rationales are listed in a clear two-column format to make the information more accessible.
Related NIC intervention and NOC outcome labels are listed for each nursing diagnosis.
The Patient-Family Teaching and Discharge Planning section highlights key patient education topics and list resources for further information.
Health Care Setting is specified for each care plan, since different conditions are treated in various settings such as hospital, primary care, long-term care facility, community, and home care.
Outcome criteria with specific timelines enable nurses to set realistic goals for nursing outcomes and provide quality, cost-effective care.
Detailed rationales for each nursing intervention help you to apply concepts to clinical practice.
Includes the most recent NANDA Taxonomy II nursing diagnoses.
Separate care plans on Pain and Palliative and End-of-Life Care focus on palliative care for patients with terminal illnesses, as well as relief of acute and chronic pain.

A new "Overview/Pathophysiology" heading helps you easily locate this key content.
Nursing diagnoses listed in order of importance/physiologic need helps you learn about prioritization.
All content has been thoroughly updated to cover the latest clinical developments, including the most recent JNC7 hypertension guidelines, the latest breast cancer screening and treatment information, revised cholesterol parameters, new drug therapies, and much more.
Patient teaching content and abbreviations have been thoroughly revised to reflect the latest JCAHO guidelines.
Expanded and clarified rationales help you understand each intervention more clearly.

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12-Lead Ecg: The Art of Interpretation
by: Thomas B. Garcia, Neil Holtz
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Edition: 1st
Media: Paperback
EAN: 9780763712846
ISBN: 0763712841
Number Of Pages: 536
Publication Date: 2001-01-15
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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Designed to bring you from your current level of knowledge to a fully advanced ECG interpreter, this book features 200+ full-size, real- life ECGs accompanied by thorough explanations and analyses. Presented in a clear and casual writing style, the book's leveled approach takes a complex subject and makes it simple. Whether you are an EMT, nurse, medical student, or physician wanting to learn or brush up on your knowledge of electrocardiography, this text will meet your needs. Containing more than 200 ECG strips, 12-Lead ECG is designed to be accessed by three different levels of readers--beginner, intermediate, and advanced--and is designed to grow with you as your knowledge of electrocardiography progresses. The text has been created to be continuously useful during your development and is intended to be read and reread as you advance in your knowledge and comfort level with the material. By rereading the material at increasingly advanced levels, you will get more out of the material and retain it with greater use.

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Bates' Guide to Physical Examination And History Taking (9th Edition)
by: Lynn S Bickley, Peter G Szilagyi
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Edition: 9
Media: Hardcover
EAN: 9780781767187
ISBN: 0781767180
Number Of Pages: 992
Publication Date: 2005-12-01
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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Now in its Ninth Edition, this classic text provides the best foundation for performing physical examination and taking the patient history. The book features a vibrant full-color design with over 1,400 drawings and photographs and a clear, simple two-column format with examination techniques on the left and abnormalities and interpretations on the right. Highlights of this edition include greater emphasis on patient communication and interview techniques, a new chapter on the older adult, and over 200 new drawings and photographs of abnormalities. A new front-of-book CD-ROM includes videos of head-to-toe examination.

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