An ideal choice for anyone who wants to gain a professional edge in the world of nursing today, the latest edition of this popular book introduces you to the issues and trends you're likely to encounter in any practice setting. Each stand-alone chapter introduces and explores a specific topic, enabling them to be read in any order. You'll find ...
This bestselling issues and trends textbook gives you a broad understanding of the problems and opportunities you will face as you make the transition from student to practicing nurse. While most of your studies have focused on learning how to care for the patient, this text teaches you the practical skills essential to managing the business side ...
The fourth edition of this popular text features over 550 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills. Step-by-step instructions for each skill are presented in vivid detail. Full-color photos and illustrations complement the text throughout. An updated overview of principles and concepts is included in each chapter, with assessment, planning, ...
Students and professionals alike have utilized this dynamic resource to apply legal and ethical decision-making to the complex issues which affect their practice. Now, this highly praised text has been updated to include the latest trends, principles, theories and models that serve as guides for ethically sound behavior in contemporary nursing ...
"Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends and Management" is currently one of the leading Issues and Trends text on the market! The fourth edition will continue to be a popular choice for undergraduate nursing students. Barbara Cherry and Susan Jacob, who continue to combine their own expertise from both the academic and practice worlds, thoroughly ...
This third edition has been revised to incorporate an increased focus on policy and a strengthened feminist perspective. Politics and policy are discussed within each of the four spheres of a nurse's environment: the workplace, government, community, and professional organizations. Contributed to by over 100 nurses, the text includes vignettes ...
This new introductory theory book addresses the underlying information needed to understand theory and apply it to practice. Based on the author's extensive survey of current Master's Degree programs, the text is designed to fully meet the needs of students. Content includes the history of the development of nursing science and theory; an ...
This textbook for nursing assistants will prepare students not only to function in the traditional nursing assistant role in nursing homes, hospitals, and home health, but also will prepare students to advance their careers. A nursing assistant student who uses this text will have a firm foundation by which to transition to an LPN and ultimately ...
"Transcultural Nursing: Assessment and Intervention, 4/e", addresses specific assessment and intervention strategies needed for clients from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Part 1 provides a systematic model of nursing assessment and intervention which takes into account six cultural phenomena: communication, space, social organization, time, ...
This best-selling, ability-based text, with a complete learning package, has been thoroughly updated and expanded to provide comprehensive coverage of the theory and skills required for working as a nursing assistant in acute care, long-term care, or home health care setting. The inviting, four-colour design, with screened procedures, additional ...
Prepare students for the rapidly evolving world in which they will practice. The thoroughly revised and updated 5th Edition of this popular text examines the issues and trends that are shaping the profession of nursing...now and in the future. The author explores the evolution and history of nursing, and examines the impact of reform, the legal ...
Ideal for shorter, more focused courses, this concise text provides coverage of the concepts and skills that are essential for becoming a nursing assistant. It clearly and logically presents the responsibilities of the nursing assistant in a readable, highly visual format that appeals to learners of all levels.
A leading health care journalist unravels the complexity of the current nursing shortage while offering possible solutions to the resulting health care crisis.
Using a thought-provoking approach that fosters critical thinking and values clarification, this textbook examines the full range of professional issues facing contemporary nursing. The coverage includes critical issues such as the nursing shortage, mandatory staffing ratios, violence in nursing, legal and ethical issues, plus the latest HIPAA ...
Advance your career to the next level of professional practice with the guidance you'll find in the New Edition of this popular text. Here are all the concepts you need to progress from RN to BSN and beyond - from new and timely topics such as quantum physics and genomics and how they are influencing the delivery of care to domestic violence and ...
This practical, readable text integrates nursing theory with the practice of transcultural nursing. It describes how cultural differences in lifestyle, habits, beliefs, life processes (such as childbirth and aging), and responses to clinical problems (like chronic illness or pain) must be considered in any nurse/client interaction. Readers learn ...
Thoroughly updated to reflect current technologies, the Third Edition of this comprehensive text reviews the concepts and applications of nursing informatics. Starting with an introduction to nursing informatics, the contents proceed from Unit One which covers computer basics to Unit Five which examines skills and techniques for using the end ...
For Nursing Assisting Courses.Helping future and current nursing assistants, patient care assistants, and home health aides understand and appreciate the scope of the work and duties they will be expected to master and perform, this leading text/reference covers the basics of providing care to a variety of patients as it keeps pace with recent ...
This nursing text is devoted to the teaching of theory, research, reasoning. It helps nursing students develop a foundation of reasoning skills that are necessary to integrate the components of knowledge, skills, values, meanings, and experiences into nursing practice. The text is composed of 12 interrelated chapters that deliver a clear and ...
Like the previous editions of "Leddy and Pepper's Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing", the seventh edition provides a broad-based presentation that addresses the philosophical, developmental, theoretical, accountability, care delivery, and leadership issues encountered by professional nurses throughout a lifetime career. The book outlines ...
The AJN Book of the Year award-winning textbook, "Nursing in Today's World", is now in its thoroughly revised, updated Ninth Edition. This vibrant full-color text presents basic concepts underlying professional nursing along with contemporary issues affecting the profession, including educational preparation, health care finance, legal ...
Revolution in the health care delivery system and recent legislative and regulatory changes have created opportunities for the nurse practitioner that didn't exist five years ago. Nps are starting their own practices, hiring employees, getting hospital admitting privileges, carrying their own panels of patients within group practices, and being ...
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