Nurse category: 158 books
Touched by Angels of Mercy
Small Doses of Genuine Life by Nurses, Patients, and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2001
Touched by Angels of Mercy contains small doses of genuine life, from nurses, patients and caregivers, that touch the heart and foster healing. This collection of short stories and poems, interspersed with tasteful cartoons, contains helpful resource information, as well as a brief biography of each...
Tending Lives
Nurses on the Medical Front
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
As the healthcare debate rages on with the growth of the HMO industry, nurses quietly continue to provide the day-to-day grit and deeply-felt passion that hold the healing profession together. Within these remarkable women and men are poignant, outrageous stories drawn from the edge of life. But fear...
by Karen Reichel Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
“I became a nurse by accident,” wrote this young, inexperienced nurse, sharing her insecurities with a pad of paper. What began as a career misstep, evolved into a journey that was unexpectedly challenging and fulfilling, at times daunting, and often humbling.Reflecting back over decades...
Quality Caring in Nursing and Health Systems
Implications for Clinicians, Educators, and Leaders, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
First Edition named an AJN Book of the Year!
ìJoanne Duffy makes a compelling argument in this book that relationships have been marginalized and no longer serve as the central organizing principle of health servicesÖThis book resonates with a virtual groundswell of findings regarding the...
Staff Nurse Survival Guide
2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
This handy second edition uses the same easy to read question and answer format as the first, containing over 80 questions and answers from 19 different specialists. It is divided into five chapters and covers topics such as:- Dealing with complaints, Mental health, Clinical supervision, Dealing with aggression and bereavement, Central venous pressure monitoring, Mentoring a student
by Sarah Jane Butfield
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Sarah Jane is a sixteen-year-old country girl, a little old-fashioned with a mischievous sense of humour, who suddenly decides she wants to be a nurse. I am not sure what Florence Nightingale would make of her! Sarah Jane has no career aspirations, all she wants is to leave school, work...
A Contemporary Nursing Process
The (Un)Bearable Weight of Knowing in Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
"[This book] speaks against thinking [that] we can only understand nursing from a traditional, logical, empirical approach, suggesting we need a contemporary process for exploring nursing. I can't agree more."
--Journal of Christian Nursing
"Nurse scholars from across...
by Dr. Marilyn Krajicek, PhD, RN
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
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,...
Fast Facts for the L & D Nurse
Labor & Delivery Orientation in a Nutshell
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
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Nurses who are new to the labor and delivery (L&D) environment will welcome this succinct, easy-to-use orientation guide for everyday labor and birth management practices. It is designed for speedy access to fundamental information about the most common practices in the L&D unit and encourages...
Strengths-Based Nursing Care
Health And Healing For Person And Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
"This is the first book to provide an in-depth exploration of strengths-based nursing care. It includes personal stories from practicing nurses and expert consultants using SBC, which enhances interest and credibility. It is filled with exercises and examples to help educators or nurses include...
Guided Participation in Pediatric Nursing Practice
Relationship-Based Teaching and Learning With Parents, Children, and Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
The first book about Guided Participation written for nurses
This authoritative publication delivers an in-depth examination of Guided Participation (GP), a dynamic process of teaching and learning that parents and guardians have used for generations to help their charges become self-reliant....
Called to Care
A Christian Worldview for Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Nursing keeps changing. The role of the nurse grew out of a Christian understanding of the human person as created in the image of God, and viewed the body as a living unity and the "temple of the Holy Spirit" (1 Cor 6:19). Contemporary nursing, however, is increasingly characterized by...
by Joellen W. Hawkins, RN, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
A 'one-stop' comprehensive guide to women's health, updated with new evidence-based guidelines and timely topics
The 11th edition of this classic guide for management of common gynecological conditions by advanced practice nurses is updated with cutting-edge topics, new evidence-based guidelines,...
Frameworks for Advanced Nursing Practice and Research
Philosophies, Theories, Models, and Taxonomies
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Uniquely organized to help readers find and select the best frameworks for their needs
This resource illuminates the daunting task of understanding and applying philosophies, models, theories, and taxonomies in nursing practice and research at the masters or doctoral level. Distinguished by...