Nursing Home Care category: 238 books
Fast Facts for the Faith Community Nurse
Implementing FCN/Parish Nursing in a Nutshell
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
"Hickman has developed a great resource for nurses practicing in a faith community or who want to implement a program...This is an easy-to-use tool offering quick access to good information and insights for FCN practice."--Journal of Christian Nursing
Faith community nursing integrates traditional...
Placement Learning in Older People Nursing E-Book
A guide for students in practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Worried about your placement? Will you fit in? Will you have the right skills? What do you need to learn for practice assessments?
This book will help you with all these concerns. It will tell you what to expect from the placement, what you can learn, how to link theory and practice, and how...
Compassionate Person-Centered Care for the Dying
An Evidence-Based Palliative Care Guide For Nurses
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
A milestone resource for palliative care nurses that facilitates evidence-based compassionate and humanistic care of the dying
"A valuable contribution to the evolving field of palliative nursing care. It is authored by a model for this field, Bonnie Freeman, and brings to the bedside what...
Rural Nursing
Concepts, Theory, and Practice, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The fourth edition of the only text to focus on nursing concepts, theory, and practice in rural settings continues to provide comprehensive and evidence-based information to nursing educators, researchers, and policy-makers. The book presents a wealth of new information that expands upon the rural...
Restorative Care Nursing for Older Adults
A Guide for All Care Settings
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2004
The purpose of restorative care nursing is to take an active role in helping older adults maintain their highest level of function, thus preventing excess disability. This book was written to help formal and informal caregivers and administrators at all levels to understand the basic philosophy of...
Comprehensive Nursing Care in Multiple Sclerosis
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
"This is an excellent resource for those caring for patients with MS. In addition to nurses, I could easily recommend this book to other physicians and, perhaps, even to patients." Score: 91, 4 stars
--Doody's
"This book represents the most current information on the care...
Circles of Care
How to Set Up Quality Care for Our Elders in the Comfort of Their Own Homes
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2001
"My parent needs help, but refuses to consider a nursing home." That’s the dilemma facing millions of baby boomers today. How can we ensure responsible, compassionate, even uplifting care for our aging parents at home?
Mindfulness is key, Ann Cason writes. Good care begins with...
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,...
Nursing and Family Caregiving
Social Support and Nonsupport
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Designated a Doody's Core Title!
"[T]his text is a truly amazing microanalytic compendium of social support strategies in different family configurations, in different context and ethnic groups, and filling different types of needs."
--From the Foreword by Janice M. Morse,...
by Madeline O'Carroll, MSc, PGDip(HE)
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2007
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. This book will help to identify the skills and resources that students already have and show how these can be developed into the essential skills needed for nursing in the mental health practice environment....
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,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
The new fifth edition of one of the premier references for geriatric nurses in hospital, long-term, and community settings, delivers current guidelines, real-life case studies, and evidence-based protocols developed by master educators and practitioners. With a focus on improving quality of care,...
Placement Learning in Mental Health Nursing E-Book
A guide for students in practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Worried about your Mental Health placement? Will you fit in? Will you have the right skills? What do you need to learn for practice assessments?
This book will help you with all these concerns. It will tell you what to expect from the placement, what you can learn, how to link theory and practice,...
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...