Fundamentals Skills category: 287 books
Contexts of Nursing
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Contexts of Nursing: An Introduction, 5th edition provides comprehensive coverage of the key ideas underpinning contemporary nursing practice in Australia and New Zealand. Each chapter introduces nursing students to the big issues in nursing and healthcare, highlighting the theory, language, research...
Anatomy of a Super Nurse
The Ultimate Guide to Becoming Nursey
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
No matter how hard you've studied, stepping into that first nursing job is unlike anything you've ever experienced. For students and recent graduates looking to conquer the challenging transition from stressed-out student to nursing professional, Kati Kleber's got you covered. Acclaimed blogger and...
Mosby's Tour Guide to Nursing School - E-Book
A Student's Road Survival Kit
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Encouraging, user-friendly, and altogether unique, Mosby’s Tour Guide to Nursing School encourages you to not only survive nursing school, but excel in whichever program you select. Throughout the book, Dr. Chenevert compares your journey through nursing school to a road trip, and she offers advice...
Nursing's Leading Edges
Advancing the Profession through Specialization, Credentialing, and Certification
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Imagine having a reference resource that gives you all the things you need to know as a practicing registered nurse (RN) or an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN). Nursing’s Leading Edges: Advancing the Profession through Specialization, Credentialing, and Certification will help you understand...
Care Coordination
A Blueprint for Action for RNs
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
In today’s health care environment, the drumbeat for care coordination grows louder and more urgent. It’s an effective way to improve quality and outcomes. Nurses are integral to this process, yet most feel their contributions are unrecognized and underappreciated. What can nurses do? Care Coordination:...
Management and Leadership in Nursing and Health Care
An Experiential Approach, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
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This book presents the basics of leadership and management for nurses -- what is essential in order to effectively motivate and educate individuals to achieve the set goals of a group, team, or organization in health care. The basic components of management...
Nursing Administration
Scope and Standards of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
The premier resource for today's nurse administrator, Nursing Administration: Scope and Standards of Practice, 2nd Edition is informed by ongoing advances in health care, professional nursing, and organizational and administrative management. It covers all aspects of a nurse administrator's practice...
by Jennifer Mensik
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Nurses are natural leaders. But as healthcare organizations continue to merge and accountable care organizations are created, you need real-world insights into how to navigate and lead in this new environment. Lead, Drive & Thrive in the System is your personal guidebook on how to succeed in this environment....
Nursing
Scope and Standards of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
The premier resource for professional nursing practice, Nursing: Scope & Standards of Practice, 3rd Edition, is informed by the advances in health care and professional nursing today. This keystone standard contains 17 national standards of practice and performance that define the who, what, where, when,...
Information Overload
Framework, Tips, and Tools to Manage in Complex Healthcare Environments
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Information Overload: Framework, Tips, and Tools to Manage in Complex Healthcare Environments has been recognized by the American Journal of Nursing as one of the best nursing and health care publications of 2015. “Information Overload” earned first place in the 2015 AJN Book of the Year Award...
The Everything New Nurse Book
Gain Confidence, Manage your Schedule, and Deal with the Unexpected
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
As a new nurse, you're entering one of the most challenging and rewarding fields! Still, you may feel a little nervous about stepping into the brave new world of medical facilities. The Everything New Nurse Book addresses all your concerns and more. Covering the nation's top ten types of nursing,...
Health Care System Transformation for Nursing and Health Care Leaders
Implementing a Culture of Caring
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
"The authors' approach to creating a transforming culture through use of foundations laid in the theoretical development of "Nursing As Caring" offers a solid foundation upon which to recalibrate and reconfigure toward a caring organizational health system."
-Tim Porter-O'Grady,...
by Bonnie Weaver Battey
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
The Job-Communication Satisfaction Importance (JCSI) questionnaire is designed to survey large groups of nursing and other health care personnel in a hospital or similar agency. Information about perceived satisfaction and importance of selected aspects of the task and people associated with health...
The Resilient Nurse
Empowering Your Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
"This book is of value to nurses at all levels of their career."--Critical Care Nurse
"This is a very practical and easy to read book with many strategies to help new nurses adapt to the stressors of the workplace. It is filled with thought-provoking stories and activities that...