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Manual of School Health - E-Book
A Handbook for School Nurses, Educators, and Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Completely updated, the 3rd edition of this practical, highly portable manual offers quick access to the most relevant health and wellness information for children -- from birth through age 21 – in the school setting. You’ll find valuable guidance on developmental stages, learning domains, acute...
Telehealth Nursing
Tools and Strategies for Optimal Patient Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Including all of the information necessary for safe, competent practice, this is a practical, hands-on educational and training resource for nurses working in telephonic health care settings. It delivers the requisite tools and instruction for optimizing patient communication, performing assessments,...
Community and Nurse-Managed Health Centers
Getting Them Started and Keeping Them Going
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2005
Designated a Doody's Core Title!
Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!
A National Nursing Centers Consortium Guide
This book provides a step-by-step guide to starting and sustaining a community health center, with an emphasis on nurse-managed centers. The authors share their firsthand...
Life after the Diagnosis
Expert Advice on Living Well with Serious Illness for Patients and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
A renowned expert in palliative care, who is featured in the Netflix documentary, End Game, Dr. Pantilat delivers a compassionate and sensitive guide to living well with serious illness.
In Life After the Diagnosis, Dr. Steven Z. Pantilat, a renowned international expert in palliative care...
Public Health Nursing
A Textbook for Health Visitors, School Nurses and Occupational Health Nurses
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Public Health Nursing is an essential resource for all health visiting students, school nursing students, and occupational health nursing students, that reflects the current key changes in community public health nursing. It is a key textbook for specialist practitioner programmes, and those new to...
Mental Illness and Your Town
37 Ways for Communities to Help and Heal
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A Blueprint for Community Action From Award-Winning Journalist Larry Hayes
Written with authority and compassion, this is the book that rescues mental illness from the shadows and takes the disability into the community.
Learn how each person can play a role to help those who so often...
Yatdjuligin
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Yatdjuligin: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care introduces students to the fundamentals of the health care of Indigenous Australians from the perspectives of both the patient and the professional. Designed for both non-Indigenous and Indigenous nurses and midwives who...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing is a companion guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing, the first text devoted to advanced practice nursing care of the seriously ill and dying. Each chapter of this pocket guide presents point-of-care guidance on palliative care...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This brand new edition pulls together the most up-to-date information on this complex, multidisciplinary area in a practical, user-friendly manner. It deals with the important social and psychological aspects for palliative care of people with incurable diseases including quality of life, communication and bereavement issues.
Nurse-Led Clinics
Practical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In recent years there has been a huge growth in nurse-led clinics within hospital outpatient departments, general practitioner surgeries and health centres. The government has endorsed the use of such clinics as a way for the public to access specialist health care and treatment more quickly and also...
The Frontier Nurse Practitioner
A Conceptual Model for Remote-Rural Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This pioneering text is the first to present a framework for remote-rural and frontier nurse practitioners (NPs), with a focus on the political and contextual forces that influence practice. This groundbreaking text distills contextual knowledge required for frontier practice, describes how it differs...
by JoAnn S. Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This issue will address health care issues and clinical implications of rural and other medically underserved priority populations. The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality identified priority populations to include rural residents, racial and ethnic minorities, low income groups, women, children,...
by Milward, Pradhan, Pasteur
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
What does it take to address poor sanitation, and the multiple health and livelihoods issues associated with it, at a large scale? How can Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) be operationalized at national and subnational levels? What do the strategies for achieving exponential growth of Open Defecation...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
This reflective and evidence-based book will equip students as well as professionals who work with people with learning disabilities in primary, secondary and specialist healthcare settings, with the knowledge and skills they need to work effectively with people with learning disabilities.
Chapters...