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by Brendan Lawley
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Shortlisted for the 2017 Text Prize
As soon as I finish school I’ll have the car packed. I’ll thunder past the dull cardboard boxes that Banarang calls shops, I’ll skim over the Bridge Street potholes without feeling a bump and I’ll fly up the freeway, bound for the city and civilisation.
Bones...
by Eric Pfeiffer
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
For anyone who is approaching a 65th birthday with trepidation, this valuable book offers heartening advice on navigating the later years of life. Dr. Eric Pfeiffer, who for thirty years has cared for—and learned from—elderly people, addresses with compassion and deep understanding the multitude...
Contested Illnesses
Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011
The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers, industry, communities, and the public. Stakeholders in disputes about illnesses or conditions disagree over their fundamental causes as well as how they should be treated...
Chronic Illness and Disability
Principles for Nursing Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
An updated edition of the essential nursing guide to a 21st-century ‘epidemic’.
Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide and, increasingly, nurses in Australia and New Zealand are caring for people with chronic disease and disability across a range of care settings.
This...
Rural Nursing, Fifth Edition
Concepts, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
“[This book] continues to be the first line resource toward understanding rural health nursing and the interface with cultural, health, health beliefs, and health care in rural populations…Highlights the realities of rural nursing from bedside to advanced practice… This book and the chapters...
DNP Education, Practice, and Policy, Second Edition
Redesigning Advanced Practice for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
First edition named a 2013 Doody’s Core Title—5 stars!
The second edition of this distinguished text—designed for use across the entire DNP curriculum—defines practice scholarship for the DNP-prepared professional nurse and promotes the development of key leadership skills needed to...
by Diana Ballard, JD, MBA
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Praise for the First Edition:
"This book is so well written! I cannot say enough positive things about the material I have read. ...This is excellent material and should be a 'stock' book in the library of every nurse!"--Helen Gordon, DNP, MS, CNM, Assistant Professor, Duke School...
by Mary Mahoney
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
In this second book in the "My Strategic View" series, Mary Mahoney explores the many areas of health-care that affect us as individuals and as businesses. In recent years, her firm – J. Robinson Group – has evolved to focus more on health-care clients, and since 2013, Mahoney's blog posts...
by Toni P Miles
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
In Health Care Reform and Disparities: History, Hype, and Hope, prolific author Toni P. Miles, MD, PhD, uniquely expands the usual discussion of health disparities by including and emphasizing the voice and perspective of the consumer, and by featuring policy, media, and financing data. Highlighting...
Teaching with Technologies in Nursing and the Health Professions, Second Edition
Strategies for Engagement, Quality, and Safety
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2018
Praise for the First Edition:
“This is an excellent resource, highly recommended for new and seasoned educators at every level.”
--Nursing Education Perspectives
Written for new and aspiring nursing faculty, this unique book delivers broad teaching principles alongside strategies...
Learning IOM/HMD
Implications of the Institute of Medicine and Health & Medicine Division Reports for Nursing Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This revised companion book to Teaching IOM/HMD: Implications of the Institute of Medicine and Health & Medicine Division Reports for Nursing Education brings the IOM and HMD reports to life for learners. The easy-to-follow guidance helps students and nurses in professional development easily...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Healthy Aging in Sociocultural Context examines two emerging trends facing countries throughout the world: population aging and population diversity. It makes a unique contribution to our understanding of these timely issues by examining their implications for healthy aging, a topic of increasing...
Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses
Interpretation and Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The “Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements: Development, Interpretation, and Application, 2nd Edition” is an essential resource for nursing classrooms, in-service training, workshops and conferences, self-study, and wherever nursing professionals use ANA’s “Code...
Regulating Tobacco, Alcohol and Unhealthy Foods
The Legal Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
The need to reduce disability and premature deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasingly engaging international organisations and national and sub-national governments. In this book, experts from a range of backgrounds provide insights into the legal implications of regulating tobacco,...