Sigma Theta Tau International imprint: 72 books

Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice: Model and Guidelines has proven to be one of the most foundational books on EBP in nursing. This fully revised third edition builds on the strength of the first two editions with updated content based on more than a decade of the model’s use and refinement...

Nursing is a critical component of health care in nearly every community—regardless of development. And nursing education is often seen as a key indicator of the health of a country's health care system. For markets in developing countries, the forecasts are mixed. The State of Nursing and Nursing...

Using the analogy of anatomy, the book covers all areas of writing: brain (idea of article), heart (flow of article), skeleton (underlying structure and plan of article), intestines (information that supports the article), kidneys (editing the article). Includes useful checklists in the appendices, including...

Pharmacogenomics, the study of the role of genetics in drug response, has developed into a critical new area in battling disease and improving outcomes. As our knowledge of the human genome grows, and with the advent of next-generation sequencing technologies, the role of genetic research is evolving...

Nurse’s Law provides nursing students and practicing professional nurse with practical guidance concerning prevailing laws, regulations, and considerations in nursing practice. Using a case-based, question-and-answer format, the authors present and illustrate the legal context for nursing practice.

Night Shift Nursing provides useful tips and practical tools that show nurses how to make the night shift work for them. From choosing energizing fitness routines and nutritious food options to reconstructing sleep patterns and balancing family and personal relationships, this book can help any nurse...

In today’s healthcare environment of scarce resources and challenges related to safety and quality, nurses must make decision after decision to ensure timely, accurate, and efficient provision of care. Solid decision-making, or lack thereof, can significantly affect patient care and outcomes. Clinical...

This is a concise, how-to book about cultural competency for community health nursing practice. It is written for undergraduate and graduate nursing students and practicing nurses who are not familiar with population-based, culturally sensitive nursing care. Each chapter of this book begins with a...

Nurses are already nurse managers. They must manage patient caseloads and care plans as well as supervise aides, technicians, and other care providers. But moving from this type of organic management to a defined nurse manager role is not a natural progression. Nurse managers must command a vast,...

This is the fully revised and updated second edition of STTI’s popular handbook for nurse managers. Nurse managers deal with the economic reality of patient-staffing ratios, reports, and accountants. Acronyms such as FTEs and ADCs can feel like a foreign language many new managers haven’t learned...

Tina M. Marrelli’s new book, Home Care Nursing: Surviving in an Ever-Changing Care Environment is a practical and comprehensive guidebook written concisely and without jargon or insider acronyms, making the book accessible to anyone whose work is connected to home care nursing services. Designed to...

This guidebook provides research professionals with a deeper understanding of strategic planning, financial management, and regulatory implementation. This book demonstrates a strategy for managing your portfolio of clinical trials, provides tactics and real-world examples, and helps the reader adapt them to their own research site.

This book provides detailed instructions on implementation of EBP and includes the relationship to the American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet Recognition Program, which hospitals try to achieve partly because of its value in marketing their nursing services. Divided into three parts: infrastructure,...

The Anatomy of Research for Nurses covers everything from formulating a hypothesis to the legal and ethical issues involved in performing and funding a research study. Providing a user-friendly approach to research, authors Christine Hedges and Barbara Williams brings together a team who bridges the...