Best of
Nursing

2010

I'm Here: Compassionate Communication in Patient Care


Marcus Engel - 2010
    However, the human interaction between patient and care giver is still the essential foundation of healing. “I’m Here” is a personal narrative from the patient’s perspective. Filled with practical advice, packed with humor and overflowing with appreciation, Marcus Engel encourages health care professionals to practice compassionate communications in all its forms.“Marcus’ books and keynote presentation has left an unforgettable impression on our nursing staff. It’s an invaluable reminder of why we do, what we do.”-Dee Evans, Driscoll Children’s Hospital, Corpus Christi, TX“I’m Here” should be required reading for all health practitioners. Marcus’ personal experience of being a patient and his insights into what constitutes compassionate care are marvelous and right on.”-Dr. Norma Stephens Hannigan, Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing Diplomate of Comprehensive Care, Columbia University in the City of New York. -Professional speaker and author Marcus Engel is considered an expert in communicating the patient’s perspective, and inspiring health care professionals to excellence. Marcus speaks from the heart. After being blinded and suffering catastrophic injuries at the hands of a drunk driver, he endured years of hospitalization, rehab and recovery. Marcus is the author of “After This… An Inspirational Journey for All the Wrong Reasons” and “The Other End of the Stethoscope: 33 Insights for Excellent Patient Care.”

Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care


Sandra Lee Gardner - 2010
    It focuses on evidenced-based practice, with clinical directions in color for easy retrieval and review. Special features help you prioritize the steps in initial care, and provide a guide to sharing information with parents. With each chapter written jointly by both physicians and nurses, this book is comprehensive enough to suit the needs of the entire team in your neonatal intensive care unit.Unique! A multidisciplinary perspective is provided by an editorial team of two physicians and two nurses, and each chapter is written and reviewed by a physician and nurse team, so information mirrors the real-world experience in a neonatal intensive care unit.Unique! Clinical content is in color, so you can quickly scan through chapters for information that directly affects patient care.Unique! Parent Teaching boxes highlight the relevant information to be shared with a patient's caregivers.Critical Findings boxes outline symptoms and diagnostic findings that require immediate attention, helping you prioritize assessment data and steps in initial care.Coverage in clinical chapters includes pathophysiology and etiology, prevention, data collection, treatment, complications, outcomes, prognosis, and parent education.Expanded Neonatal Surgery chapter covers all of the most common procedures in neonatal surgery.Follow-up of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Infant chapter is expanded to include coverage of outcomes management and discharge planning.Streamlined references are updated to include only the most current or classic sources.

Lippincott's NCLEX-RN Alternate-Format Questions


Diana Rupert - 2010
    This newly expanded 5th edition of Lippincott's Alternate-Format Questions has everything you need to be fully prepared to answer every type of question you will encounter on the NCLEX.  More than 350 questions include multiple reponse questions, drag-and-drop questions, hotspot questions, audio questions, chart questions, graphic option questions, and fill-in-the blank questions.  Also includes a comprehensive test with an additional 150 questions.  The rationale are clear and detailed and cover correct as well as incorrect answers.  In this new edition, the test-taking strategies are expanded, to help you dissect each question to its core components and provide keys to choosing the right answer.  Covers all the topics covered on the exam.

Dementia Beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture of Care


G. Allen Power - 2010
    Dementia Beyond Drugs will enable you to change the way you provide care. Learn what it takes to effect real culture change within residential care settings while reducing the administration of psychotropic drugs in the symptomatic treatment of dementia. This timely new resource, by a board-certified internist, geriatrician, nursing home practitioner, and Eden Alternative™ Educator, has what you need. Dr. G. Allen Power brings robust medical experience and a unique perspective to the idea of culture change. His eye-opening book challenges all care providers working with individuals with dementia to undertake a true operational change. Yes, you can move away from an institutional model—viewing individuals as patients defined by their dementia and using prescribed medications to control their “troublesome” behaviors—to an experiential model of care that treats individuals with dementia as the human beings they are, giving them the personal attention, respect, and dignity they deserve. Take advantage of the many benefits to this fundamental change in the provision of care, including a decrease in the need for mood-altering drugs. You will learn how to embrace more humanistic, enlightened practices that address the most common challenges in caring for people who live with dementia: • Overcome communication challenges • Minimize anxiety and depression • Root out the causes of wandering • Gain insights into paranoia and delusions Full of visionary and practical calls-to-action, Dementia Beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture of Care is an essential read for anyone involved in the care of an individual with dementia, including nursing staff, social workers, occupational therapists, medical directors, and administrators in all elder care settings. Family members of individuals with dementia and students breaking into the dementia care field will also benefit from the advice offered. Pick up your copy of Dementia Beyond Drugs and help to pioneer true culture change in your care environment today. Your reward will be improved care environments and enhanced, relationship-based interactions.

Counseling the Nursing Mother: A Lactation Consultant's Guide (Revised)


Judith Lauwers - 2010
    The text presents topics within a counseling framework and includes practical suggestions for working with mothers. The reader will gain insight into applying knowledge and research into everyday practice, and how to meet counseling challenges.The Fifth Edition has been thoroughly revised and covers a variety of topics in the lactation consultation field, beginning with breastfeeding promotion in the modern world, and examining the professional role of the lactation consultant, as well as basic anatomy, physiology, nutritional needs, high-risk babies, and breastfeeding techniques

Making Health Care Whole: Integrating Spirituality into Patient Care


Christina M. Puchalski - 2010
    While spirituality has been generally recognized as an essential dimension of palliative care, uniformity of spiritual care practice has been lacking across health care settings due to factors like varying understandings and definitions of spirituality, lack of resources and practical tools, and limited professional education and training in spiritual care.In order to address these shortcomings, more than forty spiritual and palliative care experts gathered for a national conference to discuss guidelines for incorporating spirituality into palliative care. Their consensus findings form the basis of Making Health Care Whole. This important new resource provides much-needed definitions and charts a common language for addressing spiritual care across the disciplines of medicine, nursing, social work, chaplaincy, psychology, and other groups. It presents models of spiritual care that are broad and inclusive, and provides tools for screening, assessment, care planning, and interventions. This book also advocates a team approach to spiritual care, and specifies the roles of each professional on the team. Serving as both a scholarly review of the field as well as a practical resource with specific recommendations to improve spiritual care in clinical practice, Making Health Care Whole will benefit hospices and palliative care programs in hospitals, home care services, and long-term care services. It will also be a valuable addition to the curriculum at seminaries, schools of theology, and medical and nursing schools.

Mosby's Pocket Guide to Nursing Skills & Procedures


Anne Griffin Perry - 2010
    Step-by-step instructions include full-color photos plus rationales explaining why to use specific techniques. With the latest in evidence-based practice, this book helps you perform basic nursing skills safely and effectively. Also available on Skyscape for use on any hand-held device!A clear, two-column format presents skills with rationales for each step explaining why to use specific techniques.A gloving logo identifies skills in which clean gloves should be worn or gloves should be changed in order to minimize the risk of infection.Safety alerts highlight important information for patient safety and effective performance of skills.Reporting and recording guidelines include a bulleted list of what should be documented in the patient records.Unexpected outcomes and related interventions help you troubleshoot potential problems and take appropriate actions to address them.Alphabetical organization of skills makes it easy to find information quickly.A convenient pocket size and spiral binding allow the book to fit easily into your coat pocket and to stay open on the page you want.New full-color design and illustrations help you follow step-by-step directions more easily.Completely updated content is based on Perry & Potter's market-leading text, Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 7th Edition, for the latest in evidence-based care.

Lippincott Q&A Review for NCLEX-RN


Diane M. Billings - 2010
    The questions are of the highest quality--application level and higher.  This book contains all of the latest alternate format questions and is the only book updated to the latest NCLEX test plan. Study strategies are included with an emphasis on helping at-risk students.  In addition, there is a CD-ROM containing questions that allow students to practice test-taking skills in both a study and review mode, as well as student and instructor resources on the Point. There is the option to package this title with Lippincott's NCLEX-RN 10,000 Powered by PrepU, a powerful adaptive learning system geared to help students prepare for the NCLEX. These 2 products together offer students the perfect practice for the NCLEX-RN exam.

Feathers in the Dust: A Hospice Doctor's Tale


David Trevelyan - 2010
    

Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination


HESI - 2010
    Written in an easy-to-read outline format, this study tool breaks down chapters by clinical areas and concepts emphasized on the NCLEX-RN exam. Rationales are provided for any incorrect answers or areas of weakness. The companion Evolve website offers 600 practice questions, giving you valuable practice in the same electronic testing format you will experience on your nursing school exit exam and on the NCLEX-RN exam.

Professional Nursing in the Philippines


Lydia M. Venzon - 2010
    

The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health


Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing - 2010
    This book explores ways to enhance nursing education, allow nurses to pracitice to the full extent of their education and training, provide opportunities for nurses to serve in leadership positions, and improve data collection methods for workforce planning and policy making.

Secrets of the TEAS® Exam Study Guide: TEAS® Test Review for the Test of Essential Academic Skills


Exam Secrets Test Prep Team - 2010
    

Medical Terminology Express: A Short-Course Approach by Body System [With CDROM]


Barbara A. Gylys - 2010
    This systems-based, word-building approach provides a basic knowledge of the language of medicine. The audio CD and online teaching and learning tools provide the review components necessary to quickly succeed.

Refining Fires


Erin Rainwater - 2010
    / A ruined nurse. / A tormented child. / A kept woman. / Strangers whose paths cross, bringing redemption into each other's lives in ways none of them could have predicted. / Her career in ruins, a desperate nurse answers an ad to care for a disabled veteran. / Disfigured in the war, the antisocial businessman can't get his mind off the nurse he had tossed out of his home. / A young child who never leaves the confines of her mountain home must make a treacherous journey alone to save her mother's life. / A woman kept by men all her life learns through an old love that she has been kept all along by Someone else. / Three parts. One touching story.

Celebrating Nurses: A Visual History


Christine E. Hallett - 2010
    It presents dramatic, highly readable illustrated stories of nursing's pioneering, often heroic leaders. Following an account of early nineteenth-century nursing practice during the Napoleonic Wars, the book goes on to highlight the life and work of Florence Nightingale who, in the 1850s, elevated nursing to a respected branch of medicine when she served on the Crimean War's battlefields. Also chronicled are the contributions to nursing by Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, and the poet Walt Whitman during the American Civil War. Surgical nursing first became important in the late nineteenth century, following discoveries by Robert Koch in Germany and Louis Pasteur in France of germ theory and infection control. Early twentieth-century accounts chronicle the origin of public health services, and include the story of Adelaide Nutting, the world's first professor of nursing at Columbia Teacher's College in New York. Here too is the story of Edith Cavell, who was executed for helping Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during World War I. Nursing's contributions during World War II, as well as in the Korean and Vietnam wars are also described in several vivid accounts. A concluding chapter explains how twenty-first-century nursing has expanded to cover many duties that were once the responsibility of junior doctors. The book's absorbing text is complemented with approximately 200 illustrations and photos.

AWHONN High-Risk Critical Care Obstetrics


Nan H. Troiano - 2010
    This substantially revised edition reflects the significant change in this specialty area and the need to collaborate in practice to maximize patient outcomes. All chapters have been revised by RN-MD author teams.This edition includes the AWHONN Perinatal Morbidity Advisory Panel Top 5 Issues: obesity, thromboembolic disease, diabetes, perinatal infections, and cardiac disease. The entire first section presents the realities of today's practice including ethics, collaboration, and patient safety. Nineteen chapters detail the primary complications of pregnancy.

Hesi Comprehensive Review for the Nclex-RN Examination


Mary M. Hinds - 2010
    For this digital book edition, media content is not included.Prepare for success on your HESI exit exam and the NCLEX-RN(R)! The HESI Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN(R) Examination, 3rd Edition provides a comprehensive, all-in-one review of the information you need to know. Written in an easy-to-read outline format, this study tool breaks down chapters by clinical areas and concepts emphasized on the NCLEX-RN exam. Rationales are provided for any incorrect answers or areas of weakness. The companion Evolve website offers 600 practice questions, giving you valuable practice in the same electronic testing format you will experience on your nursing school exit exam and on the NCLEX-RN exam.HESI Hint boxes highlight important clinical information and concepts commonly tested on the NCLEX-RN exam.Chapters organized by clinical area make it easy to find review topics.A consistent chapter format simplifies study and review.Pharmacology tables summarize the need-to-know drug therapy content emphasized on the NCLEX-RN exam.Critical thinking study questions reinforce key concepts and content, and also include answer guidelines.Updated content reflects the 2010 NCLEX-RN test plan.Increased emphasis on pharmacology includes specific test-taking strategies and integrated pharmacology content highlighted in tables.Student resources on the companion Evolve website include 600 NCLEX(R) examination-style practice questions, giving you a realistic testing experience.

Understanding Research for Nursing Students


Peter Ellis - 2010
    However, many books focus on how to do research rather than how to understand and evaluate research. This book helps students recognize what good research is by providing an entry level guide to the main research methodologies used in nursing. It puts research into context for student nurses, explaining how they need to use the skills of critiquing and evaluating research throughout their course and how this is linked to evidence-based practice.

Health Sciences Literature Review Made Easy: The Matrix Method


Judith Garrard - 2010
    Covered at the most basic level are the fundamental principles of searching, organizing, reviewing, and synthesizing. Woven throughout the text are visual examples and a single case study This easy-to-read and practical reference is an invaluable aid to students, researchers, and practitioners.

Mosby's Comprehensive Review of Nursing for the NCLEX-RN Examination [With CDROM]


Patricia M. Nugent - 2010
    

Oxford American Handbook of Urology


David M. Albala - 2010
    Incorporating diagnosis and treatment advice from established, published guidelines aswell as drawing from the experience of four seasoned urologists, the book's concise and accessible format quickly guides the reader to desired information on common signs and symptoms, incontinence, cancer, infections and infertility plus key information on trauma, urologic emergencies, andpediatric urology. It is an invaluable resource for medical students and residents as well as a useful reference for practitioners.

Innovative Interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health


Christine Lynn Norton - 2010
    Based on the latest research, this book emphasizes that children and adolescents need more than just talk therapy. These innovative interventions can be applied in a variety of practice settings including schools, juvenile justice, community-based counseling centers, and residential treatment. This book bridges the gap between theory and practice, and provides a historical, theoretical, and research-based rationale, as well as a helpful case study, for each type of intervention being discussed.

Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice Study Guide: A Case-Based Care Plan Approach


Michael D. Katz - 2010
    Learning aids include objectives for each case and hints provided to help students complete the case.

Mosby's Physical Examination Handbook


Henry M. Seidel - 2010
    Key information includes differential diagnosis tips, pediatric variations, sample documentation, and other helpful assessment data for quick reference. Separate chapters cover age-specific exams for infants, children, and adolescents, the healthy female evaluation, and reporting and documenting findings.

HESI A2 Secrets: Study Guide


Exam Secrets Test Prep Team - 2010
    Admission Assessment Exam, without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive HESI A2 Secrets study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept that you need to know to ace your test. Our original research reveals specific weaknesses that you can exploit to increase your exam score more than you've ever imagined. HESI A2 Secrets includes: The 5 Secret Keys to Success*Time is Your Greatest Enemy*Guessing is Not Guesswork*Practice Smarter, Not Harder*Prepare, Don't Procrastinate*Test Yourself A comprehensive Overview including: Exam Overview, Judgment and Comprehension, Final Test Taking Tips, Final Tips for the Day of the Test; A comprehensive Grammar review including: Nearly and Perfect Synonyms, Prefixes, Positive vs. Negative, Word Strength, Type and Topic, Form a Sentence, Use Replacements, Eliminate Similar Choices, Adjectives Give it Away, Use Logic, The Trap of Familiarity; A comprehensive Mathematics review including: The Easiest Math Review You'll Ever Read, Solving for Variables, How to Read Word Problems, Keeping Probability Simple, Using the Right Formulas, Graphing for Success, Breezing Through Ratios, Understanding Line Plotting, The Logical Approach to the Solving Difficult Problems; A comprehensive Reading Comprehension review including: Skimming, Paragraph Focus, Eliminate Choices, Contextual Clues, Fact/Opinion, Opposites, Make Predictions, Answer the Question, Benchmark, New Information, Valid Information, Time Management; A comprehensive Grammar review including: Usage, Correct Pronoun Usage In Combinations, Commas, Flow, Nonessential Clauses And Phrases, Independent Clauses, Parenthetical Expressions, Semicolons, Period Replacement, Transitions, Sentence Correction, Use Your Ear, Contextual Clues, and much more...