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The Nurse Professional
Leveraging Your Education for Transition Into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
“Nursing school did not adequately prepare me for this role” and “Why didn’t anyone tell me about this when I was a student?” are commonly heard complaints from new nurses during their first two “rite of passage” years following graduation. But this transition to professional practice—fraught...
Fast Facts About the Nursing Profession
Historical Perspectives in a Nutshell
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
Captures the essence of pivotal events and individuals in nursing history
Replete with concise and easy-to-read information, this resource captures the essence of pivotal events and individuals in nursing history who have driven the evolution of the nursing role from that of a "handmaiden"...
Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness
for Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
The new edition of this AJN Book of the Year continues to provide nurses with the most comprehensive, current, and reliable information available so they can develop the skills to efficiently and effectively respond to disasters or public health emergencies. Meticulously researched and reviewed by...
What Would Florence Do?
A Guide for New Nurse Managers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
ANA’s What Would Florence Do? A Guide for New Nurse Managers, is designed to help nurses excel in their management roles, regardless of tenure. This publication is an excellent resource that all CNOs or health care HR professionals can provide to their new and existing nurse management staff as...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
p>Angela Barron McBride has a long and renowned history in nursing leadership and education. This book, which focuses on developing nurse leaders, carries on in the tradition of her previous successes, including The Growth and Development of Mothers, recognized as one of the best books of 1973...
by Mary Larkin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This book fills a gap for an introductory text that offers broad coverage of the sociological issues that are relevant to health students coming to the theoretical and experiential aspects of health and illness for the first time.
by Carl Thompson, BSc(Hons), PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
This book provides the skills and knowledge to use information effectively when exercising professional judgement and clinical decisions. By integrating theory with practical examples, it provides an overview of the key issues facing nurses in decision making today.
Review of up-to-date research...
Nurses Making Policy
From Bedside to Boardroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
"There is a plethora of policy books on the market, but none illustrate the steps in the policy process better than this one. The high caliber editors and contributors, all of whom have been involved in policy work, bring years of experience to illustrate the key points... This publication is...
Transforming Nurses' Stress and Anger
Steps toward Healing, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
AJN Book of the Year Award Winner! (Second Edition)
"This book is a gem! It provides a wealth of well researched information to help the reader understand sources of stressÖ.It tackles very important issues that lead to burnout and provides an exceptionally comprehensive analysisÖ.This...
Nursing Ethics
A Principle-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Struggling to understand ethics? Feeling lost when trying to handle moral dilemmas in professional practice? Worried about helping patients to make decisions in an ethical way?
Nursing Ethics is an introductory text which enables you to consider, understand and tackle difficult moral problems....
Chronic Resilience
10 Sanity-Saving Tools for Women Coping with the Stress of Illness
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Chronic illness comes with stress, and Chronic Resilience provides a complete self-help blueprint for managing the difficulties chronic illness presents. Certified life coach and speaker Danea Horn, who suffers from chronic kidney disease, infertility, and other demanding health challenges due to...
Living Well Beyond Breast Cancer
A Survivor's Guide for When Treatment Ends and the Rest of Your Life Begins
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
What do I do now? Why am I still so tired? Am I really cured? How do I reduce my risk of recurrence? Is it safe for me to get pregnant? How do I get rid of the hot flashes so I can sleep?
This fully revised and updated second edition contains crucial information about these issues and more—including...
Restructuring Canada's Health Systems: How Do We Get There From Here?
Proceedings of the Fourth Canadian Conference on Health Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Is the Canadian health care system becoming a victim of its own success? It has done what it set out to do – provide universal access to all medically necessary health services without financial barriers to patients – but expanding technology, an aging population, and escalating costs strain its...
by Colleen Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
The saga of four friends - love, teenage angst, breakups, marriage.Spans 20 years of the teens' lives.Each teen goes through a variety of coming-of-age-issues including, love, love lost, teen angst, jealousy.