Nurse Patient category: 158 books
by Dr. Evelyn J Biluk
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
This is a collection of multiple choice questions focused on health history and physical assessment for students preparing for the NCLEX. Areas covered by questions include health history and physical assessment (preparation, techniques, general survey, vital signs, nutrition status, skin, hair, nails, head, cranial nerves, eyes, ears, nose and sinuses).
Communication Strategies in Medical Settings
Challenging Situations and Practical Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the power of suggestive techniques for solving medical problems. In everyday practice health professionals often face situations where they have to handle people in negative trance states. When that happens, patients are open to suggestive techniques. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
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This is a comprehensive body of evidence-based knowledge about the best practices to deliver optimal nursing care to the incarcerated population. It describes how nurses can adhere to the concept of caring while navigating the ethical dilemmas surrounding care of jailed individuals....
The Essence of Nursing Practice
Philosophy and Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This one-of-a-kind book provides an in-depth analysis of nursing practice as a concept and area of study, rather than as an aggregation of specific techniques and skills. The text addresses the essential features of nursing practice using a five-level nursing framework developed by the author. This...
Care of Vulnerable Older People
Legal and Ethical Aspects of Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
It is reasonable to expect that most people will live a relatively healthy life as they age, with their dignity intact and rights guaranteed. For many, however, reality may be quite different: the findings of key reports highlight the need to raise awareness of the failures in health and social care...
by Jane Nicol
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Focusing on the relevant knowledge and skills essential for effective care for people living with long-term conditions, this book covers everything from the impact of long-term conditions across the lifespan and the therapeutic relationship to symptom management, case management and advance care planning. ...
Fast Facts for Managing Patients with a Psychiatric Disorder
What RNs, NPs, and New Psych Nurses Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
The first book to address the care of dual-diagnosis patients in non-psychiatric settings
Brimming with practical insights and strategies, this unique Fast Facts resource delivers concise, quick-access information about caring for patients with common physical complaints who also have a psychiatric...
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,...
Transitions Theory
Middle Range and Situation Specific Theories in Nursing Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
"It is very exciting to see all of these studies compiled in one book. It can be read sequentially or just for certain transitions. It also can be used as a template for compilation of other concepts central to nursing and can serve as a resource for further studies in transitions. It is an excellent...
Global Health Nursing
Narratives From the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
"The narratives in this book offer rare and much-needed insight into the lived experiences and contributions of the largest cadre of global health workers: The nurses who have dedicated their careers and their lives to serving the world's poor."
--Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, Kolokotrones...
Fast Facts about PTSD
A Guide for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
This is concise, quick-access guide to the full continuum of care for all major health care professionals working with individuals suffering from PTSD. The most comprehensive book available about caring for this population, it encompasses the history of PTSD, its theoretical underpinnings, and complete...
Foundations of Professional Nursing
Care of Self and Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
This is the first text for the Professional Nursing Practice course in RN to BSN curriculum to present a conceptual framework for contemporary nursing practice based on the science of self-care that also incorporates other nursing and multidisciplinary perspectives. Built upon the premise that nursing...
by K. Madhav Naidu
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
This book identifies all the essential skills that are believed to be fundamental to the practice of mental health nursing. These skills can be used with different patients and service users and transferred, like a toolkit, between the many settings and services with which mental health nurses today...
Stay, Breathe with Me
The Gift of Compassionate Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
• The number of American adults aged 65 years and older is expected to double within the next 25 years. • According to the World Health Organization, cancer rates are expected to surge 57% worldwide in the next 20 years. At some point, all of us will be affected by serious illness directly or...