Category: Nursing

Pocket Guide to Teaching for Clinical Instructors, 3rd ed. (Stockport E-Book)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Editor(s):Ian Bullock, Mike Davis, Andrew Lockey, Kevin Mackway-Jones
First published:12 June 2015
Print ISBN:9781118860076 |Online ISBN:9781119088769 |DOI:10.1002/9781119088769

The Pocket Guide to Teaching for Clinical Instructors, 3rd edition, provides a concise introduction to teaching. Written by experienced medical educators from the Advanced Life Support Group and Resuscitation Council (UK), this best-selling guide gives comprehensive and practical advice on the most effective teaching methods.

Pocket Guide to Teaching for Clinical Instructors covers basic principles and practical aspects of teaching in a variety of modalities. This edition includes material which reflects current developments within instructor courses and includes new material on feedback, an awareness of non-technical skills, the teaching of teams and supporting learners.

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in teaching doctors and healthcare professionals in any context. It is aimed at the relative newcomer to the teaching role in all its variety and provides essential, practical advice as to how to get the best out of learners.

Promoting Recovery in Mental Health Nursing

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Trenoweth S
Pages: 144p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Learning Matters, (30 Nov. 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1473913059

Promoting recovery from mental health problems is a guiding principle within modern mental health care. Working in partnership with service users, new practice techniques are being designed and delivered that can allow individuals to thrive within society and move towards a fulfilling life beyond their diagnosis. Recovery remains a broad and subjective term though and understanding what this means for your service users and how to implement recovery into your practice is an important challenge.

Developed in partnership with Certitude – an influential charity providing support for people with mental health problems or learning disabilities – this book will answer all your questions about recovery in mental health nursing. It provides clear explanations and practical guidance that you can immediately bring into your work on placement.

Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice, 8th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Townsend MC
Pages: 960p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: F.A. Davis Company, (1 Oct. 2014)
eISBN-13: 978-0803640924

Clearly written, comprehensive coverage of psychiatric mental-health nursing delivers what nursing students need to meet the challenges of health care today. Its evidence-based, holistic approach to nursing practice focuses on both physiological and psychological disorders. Designed to be used in longer psychiatric mental-health nursing courses, this text provides students with a comprehensive grounding in therapeutic approaches as well as must-know DSM-5 disorders and nursing interventions.

Renal Nursing: Care and Management of People with Kidney Disease, 5th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Thomas N
Pages: 456p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (23 Aug. 2019)
eISBN-13: 978-1119413141

Now in its fifth edition, Renal Nursing continues to be the essential evidence-based guide to nephrology and kidney care for nurses and allied health care professionals. This comprehensive text examines the stages of chronic kidney disease, pre-dialysis care, acute kidney injury, renal replacement therapy, renal nutrition, renal care in children and young people and more. 

  • Offers thorough coverage of all major aspects of kidney care
  • Includes updated content on current practice, changes in policies, care and management, with the latest research evidence and current NICE guidance on renal replacement therapy
  • Has an innovative chapter on patient and public involvement in kidney care

Renal Nursing is an indispensable resource for nurses working in nephrology, dialysis and transplantation, nurses in post-registration renal courses, student nurses in renal wards, specialist renal dietitians, pharmacists and other allied health professionals in related fields.

Successful Professional Portfolios for Nursing Students, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Reed S
Pages: 132p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Learning Matters, (30 May 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1473916319

This book is a simple, quick and easy to use guide to building a professional portfolio for nursing students. Students are required by the NMC to keep an ongoing record of achievement, to demonstrate their competence at each stage of their programme. The portfolio is an essential part of the assessment of practice to demonstrate nursing competence. This book gives a step-by-step and practical explanation of how to compile a professional portfolio to succeed in these assessments. It can be used throughout nursing programmes and into your nursing career as a tool to help with interviews, appraisals and the NMC revalidation process.

Key features

  • Excerpts from other students′ portfolios show what makes a good portfolio
  • Step-by step activities guide you through building your own portfolio
  • Linked to the latest NMC Standards and ESCs for pre-registration nursing education

The Essentials of Nursing Leadership

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Taylor R and Webster-Henderson B
Pages: 216p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Sage, (19 Dec. 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1412962025

This new approach to leadership focuses on how students can develop leadership skills right from the start of their nursing programme through to transitioning to their first role. The book first takes students through the underpinning knowledge and theory and then through practical skills to help them understand all aspects of leadership and how it is a key component of providing quality care to patients in a range of environments and settings. Real stories from nursing leaders, practitioners and students are included to inspire students and show them how they can impact positively on practice, whatever level they are working at.

Key features include:

  • Real life focus, grounded in everyday practice, with lots of case studies and examples to help students see how theory relates to practice
  • Activities to help students reflect about their own practice, and about themselves as leaders
  • Video interviews with nurse leaders and students on the companion website
  • Further reading and links to journal articles in both the book and the companion website help students delve deeper and prepare for assessments.

Leadership, Management and Team Working in Nursing, 3rd ed

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Ellis P
Pages: 216p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Learning Matters, (29 Nov. 2018)
eISBN-13: 978-1473997912

With all nurses expected to demonstrate leadership, management and team working skills it is vital that students engage with this aspect of their training as early as possible. As well as covering all of the core theory and knowledge, the authors encourage the reader to explore their own values and experiences when it comes to leadership that will help to develop emotional intelligence and a solid understanding of what good leadership and management practice looks like and why it matters to them.

Key features:

  • Written with the needs of student nurses firmly in mind with activities and case studies that bring theory to life
  • Linked to the 2018 NMC standards of proficiency for registered nurses
  • Provides practical guidance on the immediate challenges that the new nurse will face

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Thistlethwaite J and McKimm J
Pages: 104p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell. (31 July 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1118756386

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance offers accessible coverage of an increasingly important aspect of medical and health professional education. This concise text includes how to identify and develop professional behaviours, how they are assessed, and how to challenge unprofessional behaviours.  Health Care Professionalism at a Glance:

  • Provides a user-friendly and thought provoking overview of health care professionalism
  • Introduces the main topics, key definitions and explores aspects relevant to learners and novice professionals
  • Considers fundamental features of professionalism that students are expected to acquire as well as how they are taught, learned and assessed
  • Includes summary boxes that highlight important points, reflection points, clinical cases and suggested further reading
  • Includes references relevant to different countries’ accrediting bodies

Acute and Critical Care in Adult Nursing, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Tait D, James J, Williams C and Barton D
Pages: 320p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Learning Matters, (14 Dec. 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1473912311

This book helps adult nursing students to competently manage care of critically and acutely ill patients, and to recognize and deal with the early signs of deterioration. The book takes a practical real-life approach to care, with each chapter focusing on patients with specific problems, then interweaving the knowledge and skills needed to care for that patient.

New to this edition:

  • two new chapters focusing on the renal system and endocrine system
  • updates to include the latest evidence and guidelines from NICE
  • refreshed activities and scenarios reflecting current nursing practice.

Wound Care at a Glance, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Peate I and Stephens M
Pages: 142p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (30 Jan. 2020)
eISBN-13: 978-1119590507

The second edition of Wound Care at a Glance is the ideal study and revision companion for undergraduate nursing and healthcare students, newly qualified practitioners, and for all involved with the provision of high quality, evidence-based wound care. This concise and user-friendly guide enables readers to expand their knowledge and understanding of wound care and skin integrity, and render safe and effective patient-centred care.

The guide’s highly illustrated, visual approach to the subject of wound care and skin integrity explores the anatomy and physiology of the skin, acute and chronic wounds, pain management, legal and ethical issues, the various complexities of practical wound care, and more.

  • Contains all the information you need to provide safe and effective patient care
  • Presents a clear and concise account of appropriate wound care
  • Incorporates both images and text to appeal to visual and non-visual learners alike
  • Features a companion website containing interactive self-testing features

The Textbook of Non-Medical Prescribing, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Pickett K and Wilkinson R
Pages: 306p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (8 Nov. 2019)
eISBN-13: 978-1119520474

The Textbook of Non-Medical Prescribing is an authoritative and accessible overview of the vital skills, contemporary issues and essential knowledge relevant to both students and healthcare practitioners. Written as a response to the growing emphasis placed on prescribing in the modern health service, this text provides up-to-date information on safe and effective prescribing. This wide-ranging book helps students and trainees develop foundational knowledge of the key areas and prescribing competencies and provides healthcare professionals with a continued source of current information.

Now in its third edition, this text has been fully updated and revised to reflect changes in legislation, current practices and new guidelines. New and updated topics include independent prescribing for therapeutic radiologists, supplementary prescribing for dietitians, paramedics working in advanced roles to independently prescribe and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Competency Framework for all Prescribers.

  • Provides up-to-date information essential to safe and effective prescribing in a clear, easy-to-understand style
  • Discusses current issues and practices in pharmacology, prescribing and therapeutics and medicine management
  • Links to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Competency Framework for all Prescribers for non-medical prescribers
  • Presents learning objectives, key theme summaries, activities and numerous case studies
  • Offers access to additional online resources including interactive exercises, quizzes, self-assessment tests and web links

Palliative Care in Nursing and Healthcare

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Brown M
Pages: 192p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Sage, (21 Dec. 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1446295694

This book helps nursing and healthcare students to prepare for the challenges of working with the increasing number of patients requiring palliative care, so that they can work in partnership with patients and their carers, providing care that is compassionate, practical and backed up by the latest evidence. Delivering palliative care can be emotionally challenging and the book focuses on supporting healthcare staff, allowing them to provide the care that is needed.

Paediatrics at a Glance, 4th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Miall L, Rudolf M and Smith D
Pages: 204p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (27 May 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1118947838

Paediatrics at a Glance provides an introduction to paediatrics and the problems encountered in child health as they present in primary, community and secondary care, from birth through to adolescence.  Thoroughly updated to reflect changes in understanding of childhood illness over the last 5 years, the 4th edition of this best-selling textbook diagrammatically summarises the main differential diagnoses for each presenting symptom, while accompanying text covers important disorders and conditions as well as management information.

Paediatrics at a Glance:
• Is an accessible, user-friendly guide to the entire paediatric curriculum
• Features expanded coverage of psychological issues and ethics in child health
• Includes more on advances in genetics, screening and therapy of childhood illness
• Contains new videos of procedures and concepts on the companion website
• Includes a brand new chapter on Palliative Care – an emerging area in the specialty
• Features full colour artwork throughout

Ophthalmic Nursing, 5th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Shaw ME and Lee A
Pages: 392p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Routledge, (26 July 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1482249767

Ophthalmic Nursing provides an overview for those just setting out in a role within ophthalmic nursing. It includes basic and comprehensible anatomy and physiology – the foundations for understanding how the eye functions and why and how problems occur – and relates them to the care and needs of the patient.

This accessible text includes evidence-based procedure guidelines and the inclusion of reflective activities in most chapters allows readers to apply their knowledge to the realities of the care setting. Also covered are the most recent National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines for glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration.

Since the publication of the fourth edition, there have been many advances in the care and management of the ophthalmic patient. The authors have updated the chapters accordingly and included new colour images and diagrams. References, further reading and websites have also been updated to reflect current trends. A valuable resource for nurses in practice and training, this book continues to be the ‘go-to’ source for those caring for the ophthalmic patient.

Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice, 11th ed

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Polit DF and Beck CT
Pages: 496p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher:  Wolters Kluwer Health, (2 Mar. 2020)
eISBN-13: 978-1975112264

Complete with full research reports, critiques, and the innovative online Toolkit, this knowledge-building companion to Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice reinforces the acquisition of basic research skills and enhances students’ ability to confidently conduct, appraise, and critique research studies. Learning exercises emphasize careful reading and critical appraisal; robust appendices deliver fast access to a wide range of nursing research reports; and the timesaving online Toolkit provides best-practice research resources that can be easily adapted to meet individual needs.  Crossword Puzzles provide an entertaining and challenging review of key terms and concepts. Study Questions encourage critical thinking and reinforce the most relevant content from each textbook chapter.
Application Exercises hone students’ ability to read, comprehend and critique nursing studies most effectively. Full research reports in the robust appendices cover a wide range of endeavors. TheToolkit delivers fast online access to dozens of timesaving, adaptable resources that can be downloaded and customized to meet your specific needs.

Nursing Older People at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Tetley J,Cox N, Jack K and Witham G
Pages: 128p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (16 Mar. 2018)
eISBN-13: 978-1119043867

As the environment of care continues to evolve to promote person-centredness, dignity, health, and wellbeing, for nurses working with older people, this can be challenging. Nursing Older People at a Glance is a timely publication which provides an overview of key concepts that nurses need to know in order to care for older people in a wide range of settings.

Divided into six sections, it explores a range of themes such as person-centred care, health and wellbeing, health promotion, and the complexity of older people’s care, encompassing mental wellbeing, diverse communities and learning disability.

With a strong focus on dignity in care throughout, Nursing Older People at a Glance will readily equip undergraduate and post-qualification nurses with the knowledge and skills required to care for older people in a competent and compassionate manner.

Nursing in General Practice: The Toolkit for Nurses and Health Care Assistants

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Campbell P, Longbottom A and Pooler A
Pages: 144p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Routledge, (30 Jun. 2007)
eISBN-13: 978-1846191725

This indispensable toolkit is full of practical hints and tips to enhance and develop the role of nursing in general practice. The user-friendly, straight-forward style makes it great for quick reference, bringing together all the basic information required to find a clear career path. This toolkit, along with the linked on-line material, prepares readers for adjusting their roles in accordance with patient needs, personal and professional aims and career aspirations. It is ideal for all nurses and health care assistants in general practice, including healthcare students wanting a career in general practice. Practice managers, PCT managers, health care educators and general practitioners will also find it of great interest.

Nurses’ Clinical Decision Making

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gurbutt R
Pages: 144p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Routledge, (20 Sept. 2006)
eISBN-13: 978-1846190377

This work includes a foreword by Carl Thompson, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York. This inspiring text offers guidance and innovative ideas for teaching and learning. It explains how nurses make clinical decisions through the development of narratives, and how, using narratives, nurses gain a far more intimate knowledge of the patient than doctors can. The book considers service delivery around patients, renegotiation of professional roles of medical staff and their boundaries of responsibility and authority. “Nurses’ Clinical Decision Making” will appeal to all undergraduate and postgraduate students of nursing, registered nurses and nurse managers. Nurse educators, hospital managers, doctors and healthcare risk managers will also find the information contained here invaluable. ‘If nurses are decision-makers how can their role and practice be explained? Can decision-making be taught and are there different levels of decision-making skill? If so, how can expert decision-makers be recognised? These are just some of the pertinent questions that need to be asked if we are to recognise and understand the centrality of clinical decision-making in nursing practice. Clinical work is complex and takes place in a complex environment that centres around individuals who themselves are physically, socially and spiritually complex. Clinical work also involves multiple participants (nurses, doctors, patients, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, pharmacists to name a few) who in the course of a days work can make scores of decisions.

Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Boxwell G, Petty J and Kaiser L
Pages: 700p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Routledge, (11 Nov. 2019)
eISBN-13: 978-1138556843

Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing is a comprehensive, evidence-based text for nurses and allied health professionals caring for sick newborn infants.

This user-friendly text focuses on the common problems and related care occurring within the neonatal specialty. All previous chapters have been thoroughly updated and new content includes chapters on, for example, organisation of neonatal care, assessment of the neonate, the premature and low birth weight neonate as well as palliative care. In addition, the book now includes a broad and in-depth web-based companion comprising online resources, case studies with answer guides and learning activities. This accessible and interactive approach enables nurses to recognise, rationalise and understand clinical problems using an evidence-based approach. Divided into four parts, the book provides an overview of neonatal care, and a detailed look at the physical and emotional wellbeing of neonate and family, a range of clinical aspects of neonatal care, and key practices and procedures.

Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing will be essential reading for both new and experienced nurses, allied health professionals and students learning about neonatal care including those undertaking qualifications in the neonatal specialism and pre-registration students taking relevant modules or placements.

Patient-Centred Ethics and Communication at the End of Life

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Jeffrey D
Pages: 144p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: CRC Press, (1 Dec. 2005)
eISBN-13: 978-1857756210

This book provides the best information available on the ways priorities are currently set for health care around the world. It describes the methods now used in the six countries leading the process, and contrasts the differences between them. It shows how, except in the UK, frameworks have now been developed to set priorities. Making Choices for Health Care sets forth the key issues that need to be tackled in the years ahead. Descriptions of the leading trends are accompanied by suggestions to resolve outstanding difficulties. Topics include: the need for national research and development funding for new treatments, ways to shift resources permanently towards prevention and chronic care, and how DALYs may replace QALYs. While the concepts and values underlying priority setting have been discussed elsewhere, Making Choices for Health Care highlights real current practice. It is a vital tool for policy-makers, health care managers, clinicians, patient organizations, academics, and executives in pharmaceutical and medical supply industries.

Health Promotion and Wellbeing in People with Mental Health Problems

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Bradshaw V and Mairs H
Pages: 232p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Sage, (7 Feb. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1473951969

This practical guide helps nursing students and other healthcare professionals promote and improve the health and wellbeing of those with mental health problems by looking closely at the disparities that people with mental health problems face in relation to their physical health.  It includes:

• Evidence-based techniques such as motivational interviewing and promoting physical activity.
• MCQs at the start of each chapter for readers to test their knowledge.
• Reflection points, activities and case studies to link theory to practice.
• Summaries of key messages to take away.

This is essential reading for all nursing students and healthcare professionals.

How to Survive your Nursing or Midwifery Course

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gribben M,McLellan S and McGirr D
Pages: 296p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Sage, (23 Feb. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1473969230

Nursing and midwifery are inspiring and amazing professions – but as you face the realities of juggling work, study and life, you may now be thinking ‘what did I let myself in for’?
This book is designed to help anyone who is struggling and needs a little (or a lot of) guidance. It’s packed with useful information and practical exercises to help nursing and midwifery students cope with all the major sources of stress  – including:

  • juggling time
  • succeeding in assignments and exams
  • understanding what’s expected in real life and on placements
  • managing finances
  • coping with stress
  • applying for jobs and more

Infection Prevention and Control at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Weston D, Burgess A and Roberts S
Pages: 144p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (18 Nov. 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1118973554

Infection Prevention and Control at a Glance is the perfect companion for study and revision for pre-registration nursing and healthcare students, as well as qualified nurses and medical students.

Infection prevention and control is one of the key five ‘essential skills clusters’ that is incorporated into all pre-registration nursing programmes. This highly visual and dynamic book is a thorough resource for nurses wanting to consolidate and expand their knowledge of this important part of nursing. Written by experienced infection prevention and control specialist nurses, it provides a concise and simple approach to a vast and complex subject, and equips the reader with key information in relation to various aspects of infection prevention and control practice.

  • Provides a snap-shot of the application of infection prevention and control in practice and the key infections affecting patients in both acute and primary care
  • A uniquely visual and accessible overview of a topic of relevance to all nursing staff
  • Includes key points for clinical practice, patient management, and signposting of key national guidance documents and websites
  • Available in a wide-range of digital formats – perfect for ‘on the go’ study and revision

Kozier & Erb’s Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process and Practice, 10th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Berman A,Frandsen G and Snyder S
Pages: 1520p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Pearson, (6 Aug. 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1292359793

Consistency and accessibility are essential to student success in the Fundamentals of Nursing course. With its clear, approachable, writing style,Kozier & Erb’s Fundamentals of Nursing sets the foundation for nursing excellence. Coverage of the key concepts of contemporary nursing, as well as the latest nursing evidence, standards, and competencies, helps prepare readers to become effective nurses. To help students develop their clinical-reasoning abilities, new QSEN features draw connections to actual nursing practice. All basic and fundamental skills for the registered nurse are described within the nursing process. Students will learn to think like nurses as they see how the material they are reading is applied in nursing practice.

Learning Disability Nursing at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gates B, Fearns D and Welch J
Pages: 184p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, (13 Feb. 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1118506134

Learning Disability Nursing at a Glance is the perfect companion for study and revision from the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series. This visual, dynamic and user-friendly resource addresses the key principles underpinning contemporary learning disability nursing practice, relates them to key clinical practice issues, and explores them in the context of maintaining health and well-being. Exploring the full spectrum of care, this textbook addresses the needs of people with learning disabilities across the life span, from children through to adolescents and on to adults and older people. Aimed at nursing, health and social care students, as well as registered nurses, this is an invaluable resource for all those looking to consolidate and expand their knowledge, in order to provide safe, effective and compassionate care to people with learning disabilities.

  • The perfect revision and consolidation textbook
  • Highly visual colour presentation, with full colour illustrations throughout
  • Includes expert contributions from learning disability academic staff as well as clinicians
  • Embraces both primary and secondary care perspectives

Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Rawles Z
Pages:255p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Routledge
eISBN-13: 978-1-315-10675-5

Covering all the essential components of healthcare assistant and assistant practitioner roles, Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants is a practical and comprehensive text designed to equip you with the necessary clinical skills for your profession. This book:

    • Equips you with the knowledge to provide the safest and most effective patient care possible
    • Provides evidence-based guidelines to ensure best practice that is matched to the National Occupational Standards
    • Supplies comprehensive coverage of both primary and secondary care settings with an emphasis on the role in primary care
    • Includes information on accountability, communication skills, confidentiality and reflection
    • Uses a light-hearted and accessible style, with definitions, case studies and activities to aid understanding

Foundations of Adult Nursing, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Burns D
Pages: 501p.
Format: Epub
Publisher:
eISBN-13: 978-1473997936

Covering the issues, themes and principles that explain what it means to be a nurse today, this book provides the theory students need to know and applies it to the diverse patient groups and settings that students will encounter on their placements.

Key features of the book are:

  • It introduces the core aspects of adult nursing
  • An evidence-based approach with discussion of literature, policy and research and suggested further readingfor every chapter
  • Over 30 case studies to help students understand the realities of practice across a range of settings including primary care and the community
  • Stop and think boxes which challenge assumptions and encourage reflection
  • A companion website with sample questions for lecturers to use in seminars, multiple choice questions for student revision and free SAGE journal articles

The book has been closely mapped to the NMC′s 2018 Standards for Proficiency, Education and Training and supports students across their entire degree programme as they develop into nurses of the future ready to deliver and lead care.

The NHS: Britain’s National Health Service, 1948-2020

Posted onAuthorJames Ryan

Author: Cohen S. Pages:64
Format: PDF
Publisher: Shire Publications 12/11/2020
eISBN-13:9781784424794

1948 marked a turning point in British history, for it was the year that the National Health Service began. Inaugurated by the health minister, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan, the new nationwide system was established to provide countrywide free healthcare for every citizen at the point of use, and, as Bevan believed, would ‘lift the shadow from millions of homes.’ No longer would people have to fear paying for their medical care and potentially being pushed into poverty. Every aspect of medical care began to change, gradually affecting the way that the profession, including doctors, nurses, district nurses, dentists, opticians, pharmacists and hospitals practised and operated. It also created new opportunities, enabling the scope of treatments available to grow.This beautifully illustrated book traces the origins of the NHS, from Florence Nightingale, to the NHS beginnings in 1948 and the subsequent decades and introduces readers to the people who worked for the NHS and to the men, women and children who benefited from the new universal system. Viewed through the prism of social history, and using personal recollections, this story takes account of the debates surrounding the evolving system, and looks at the way that innovation and science have transformed healthcare since the NHS began.

Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology: An Essential Guide for Nursing and Healthcare Students, 3rd Edition

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Peate I
Pages: 624p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
eISBN-13: 978-1119219477

Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology continues to be an accessible and comprehensive introductory text to pathophysiology, written specifically for nursing and healthcare students to assist in the understanding of human anatomy, and the complex disease patterns that affect normal physiology.

Thoroughly updated, and with full-colour illustrations throughout, this new edition incorporates additional learning features including reflective questions at the end of each chapter, investigation boxes, medication alerts, red flags to indicate essential information to be aware of when providing care, vital signs boxes relating to physiological measurements as well as inclusion of the National Early Warning Score.

With emphasis placed on a multidisciplinary approach, Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology highlights the importance of contemporary, safe, and effective practice in an environment in which the delivery of care is constantly evolving.

Fundamentals of Care: A Textbook for Health and Social Care Assistants

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Peate I
Pages: 265p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 3 Mar. 2017
eISBN-13: 978-1119212201

Fundamentals of Care is an accessible introductory textbook for all health care assistants; assistant practitioners and social care support workers who are undertaking the newly introduced, mandatory Care Certificate, as well as offering a resource for providing care and support. Practically focused, each chapter begins with the outcomes associated with each standard, which helps contextualise and focus the reader on the content and relevance to the Care Certificate. The book also includes exercises to encourage the reader to stop, look, listen and act, thinking cap activity promotes further thinking and application to care and support provision along with case studies and resource files. Written to help the reader come to terms with the role and function of the heath and care assistants, Fundamentals of Care offers support to those undertaking the Care Certificate and to assist those who already work as health and care assistants, helping them in their quest to enhance safe and effective care.

Dimond’s Legal Aspects of Nursing: A Definitive Guide to Law for Nurses, 8th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Griffith R and Dowie I
Pages: 800p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Pearson, 3 Jun. 2019
eISBN-13: 978-1292245379

Written specifically for student nurses as well as those already in practice, Dimond’s Legal Aspects of Nursing is your essential practical guide to the legal principles you need to be aware of in your everyday nursing practice.

Building on previous editions of the book by Bridgit Dimond, this 8th edition has been significantly reworked by a new author team with extensive experience in teaching nursing law. It has also been fully updated and revised in line with recent legal developments and the new Nursing standards to ensure it continues to meet the requirements of nursing law modules.

New to this edition:

  • Introduction of new and updated Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) Fitness to Practise procedures
  • Reference to the NMC Code 2015 (updated 2018) including Duty of candour
  • Data Protection legislation updated including reference to the General Data Protection Regulation 2016
  • Greater reference to the devolved UK administrations
  • Updated overview of a nurses’ duty of care
  • Reference to the new NMC approved curriculum, and the introduction of nursing associates
  • Introduction of upcoming changes to the Mental Capacity Act 2005
  • Comprehensive discussion of the practice implications of the Supreme Court Decisions in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015]
  • Consideration of the revised Health and Social Care Act 2008 (regulated activities) regulations 2014
  • Updated consideration of gross negligence manslaughter
  • Practical implications of the extension of the crimes of ill treatment and willful neglect under the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 section 20 and 21

 

Critical Resilience for Nurses: An Evidence-Based Guide to Survival and Change in the Modern NHS

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Traynor M
Pages: 184p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Routledge, 16 Mar. 2017
eISBN-13: 978-1138194236

The nursing profession is under pressure. Financial demands, student debt, the target culture, political scrutiny in the wake of major care scandals and increasing workloads are all taking their toll on professional morale and performance. This timely book considers the meaning of resilience in this adverse context and explains why measures to preserve individual nurses’ and students’ well-being are flawed if they don’t take into account wider political and organizational perspectives.

Arguing that healthcare can be thought about and experienced differently, this book:

  • Provides a summary of the latest research on resilience, explaining its relevance and also limitations for nurses;
  • Considers debates about compassion and highlights the effects of policy agendas on nurse education and nursing work;
  • Re-evaluates nursing’s professional identity, including where nursing has come from and the effects of class, gender and race on its powerbase;
  • Assesses the role of politics and social media, both in driving change and feeding resistance; and
  • Introduces the idea of critical resilience as a complete framework for resisting bullying and fostering survival and change in the nursing workforce.

Direct, upbeat, at times provocative and witty, this agenda-setting book enables nurses to understand why they feel the way they do. It also lists what opportunities are available to them to change, resist and survive in what has become a complex, challenging – if still deeply rewarding – line of work.

 

The Nurse Mentor’s Handbook: Supporting Students in Clinical Practice

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Walsh D
Pages: 270p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Open University Press, 26 Aug. 2020
eISBN-13: 978-0335248612

This popular book is an essential companion for supporting and supervising student nurses in clinical practice. The book examines the theory of supervision and the underlying principles of teaching and assessment in nurse education and includes case studies, tools and interventions that can be used in clinical practice.

Emergency Nursing at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Holbery N
Pages: 182p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell, 4 Mar. 2016
eISBN-13: 978-1118867679

From the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series comes a wide-ranging and succinct overview of the key concepts of emergency care.  Emergency Nursing at a Glance uses the unique and highly visual at a Glance format to convey vital information quickly and efficiently, ensuring that nursing students have access to all the important topics they need for an emergency care placement.  This highly visual, easy-to-read guide is the ideal companion for anyone entering fields involving urgent or unscheduled care.

  • Includes all aspects of emergency care, including trauma, minor injury, triage processes, patient assessment, common emergency presentations, as well as legal, ethical and professional issues.
  • Covers care of adults, children, and those with learning disabilities and mental health conditions
  • Presented in the bestselling at a Glance format, with superb illustrations and a concise approach

Communication in Nursing and Healthcare: A Guide for Compassionate Practice

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gault I, Shapcott J, Luthiand A and Reid G
Pages: 225p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Sage, 1 Nov. 2016
eISBN-13: 978-1412962315

This book uses real student experiences and stories from patients to help students develop their communication skills throughout the three years of training, with a focus on how to develop person-centredness and compassionate and collaborative care.

Children and Young People’s Nursing Skills at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gormley-Fleming E and Martin D
Pages: 160p.
Format: Epub
Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell, 2 Mar. 2018
eISBN-13: 978-1119078531

Children and Young People’s Nursing Skills at a Glance is the perfect companion for study and revision for pre-registration children’s nursing students. Highly visual, each clinical skill is covered in a two-page spread, with superb colour illustrations accompanied by clear informative text.

Providing up to date, evidence-based information on a wide range of clinical skills that are required by today’s children’s nurses, this comprehensive and accessible text makes it easy for the reader to grasp the fundamentals in order to meet the care needs of the child and family, both in the hospital and community setting.  Structured around the key systems of the body, the book is divided into sixteen sections, and covers all the essential clinical skills, including:

  • Principles of assessment
  • Communication
  • Record keeping
  • Drug calculations and administration
  • Safeguarding
  • Care planning
  • Respiratory and cardiac care
  • Gastrointestinal care
  • ECG reading and interpretation
  • Neurological assessment
  • Musculoskeletal care.

Physical assessment of the newborn: a comprehensive approach to the art of physical examination. 5th Edition

Posted onAuthorJames Ryan

Author: Tappero EP. Pages:302 Format: PDF
Publisher: Springer
01/09/2021
eISBN-13: 9780826121936

This valuable and essential resource illustrates the principles and skills needed to gather assessment data systematically and accurately, and also provides a knowledge base for interpretation of this data. Coverage addresses: gestational assessment, neurologic assessment, neonatal history, assessment of the dysmorphic infant, and systemic evaluation of individual body systems, as well as key information on behavioral and pain assessment, including the use of specific tools with various groups ranging from term to extremely preterm infants. Numerous tables, figures, illustrations, and photos, many of them in full color, are a major strength that enhances the book’s usefulness as a clinical resource. The text is an excellent teaching tool and resource for anyone who performs newborn examinations including nurses, neonatal and pediatric nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives, physicians and therapists. It can also serve as a core text for any program preparing individuals for advanced practice roles in neonatal care.

Collaborative Learning in Practice: Coaching to Support Student Learners in Healthcare

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Lobo C, Paul R, Crozier K. Pages: 272  Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
25/05/2021
eISBN-13: 9781119695387

Collaborative Learning in Practice provides a detailed description of the CLiP model and explains how coaching can be integrated into a range of learning conversations. Written by an experienced team of practitioners, this unique text describes the theoretical basis of the CLiPmodel, highlights potential pitfalls and successes, and offers practical guidance on implementation. A wealth of real-world case studies demonstrates how the CLiPmodel works in a range of professional and practice settings, considering healthcare education, research and leadership. This authoritative book: Provides an overview of the innovative CLiP model of practice-based learning, linked to the NMC standards for student supervision and assessment Offers numerous real-life examples of how to implement and evaluate CLIP in practice Explores the use of reverse mentoring to update and share knowledge collaboratively Discusses how coaching approaches such as GROW and OSCAR can enhance learning experiences Includes access to online learning tools including self-assessment tests, additional practical scenarios and case studies, and links to further reading Developing practitioner knowledge and skill through an accessible, reader-friendly approach,Collaborative Learning in Practice is an essential resource for nursing and allied healthcare educators, nursing and healthcare students, and practice mentors, supervisors, and assessors in clinical environments.

Transforming Lives: Health Initiatives in Faith Communities

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Alexander Rödlach. Pages: 214 Format: PDF Publisher: Lexington Books
23 Sept. 2020
eISBN-13: 978-1793625793

Faith community nursing and health ministry programs in congregations have increasingly been recognized as having a significant impact on the health and well-being of individuals. Based on a case study in Omaha, Nebraska, Transforming Lives: Health Initiatives in Faith Communities documents how nurses and health ministers touch and transform the recipients of their services and the participants in activities they organize. Alexander Rödlach argues that much of their success is due to their ability to collaborate with leadership in congregations and health systems. These programs have the potential to become significant partners with health systems and governments in providing health services to communities.

Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Margaret Somerville, K. Kumaran and Rob Anderson. Pages: 304  Format: EPUB Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell;
5 Aug. 2016
eISBN-13: 978-1118999325

Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance is a highly visual introduction to the key concepts and major themes of population health. With comprehensive coverage of all the core topics covered at medical school, it helps students understand the determinants of health and their study, from personal lifestyle choices and behaviour, to environmental, social and economic factors. This fully updated new edition features: More coverage of audit and quality improvement techniques Brand new sections on maternal and child health, and health of older people New chapters on social determinants of health and guideline development Expanded self-assessment material This accessible guide is an invaluable resource for medical and healthcare students, junior doctors, and those preparing for a career in epidemiology and public health.

Compassion in Nursing

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Alistair Hewison And Yvonne Sawbridge. Pages: 236 Size: 2.15 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Red Globe Press
Published: 16 September, 2017
eISBN-13: 978113744370

Compassion has become a prominent issue in health policy and practice and the recommendations of the Francis Report and the Berwick Review emphasised the need for compassion in care. This timely and important text book provides a valuable resource for practicing and student nurses which examines compassion in depth, but from a real world perspective. It appreciates and discusses the emotional labour of care and the realities of practice which can make ‘caring’ and ‘having compassion’ feel like a difficult and impossible task. This is an essential guide for those seeking clarity and depth in the analysis of compassion in contemporary nursing. Whether on a pre-qualifying undergraduate degree or an experienced practitioner, this is a must-have book for anyone interested in creating a compassionate health service.

Caring for People with Dementia: A Shared Approach

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Wilson, Christine Brown Pages: 217 Size: 994 KB Format: PDF Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 27 March, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781526415134

Skills in caring for people with dementia are increasingly demanded of all health care practitioners as the numbers of diagnosed increase. Caring for People with Dementia presents Christine Brown Wilson’s latest research into improving dementia care for both non-expert students and junior staff as well as more senior managers.

The text first guides the reader through the underpinning theory behind the different approaches to person centred and relationship centred care and provides case scenarios with a range of practical strategies staff and students have developed and implemented. It then presents the different levels of the organisational change using practical strategies adopting a person centred and relationship centred approach involving the person with dementia and their families.

This book will be indispensable reading for all nursing and healthcare students and practitioners who want to improve the quality of life for people with dementia.

A beginner’s guide to evidence-based practice in health and social care

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

A beginner's guide to evidence-based practice in health and social care

Author: [edited By] Aveyard, Helen Sharp, Pam,. Pages: 185 Size: 10.84 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 14 May, 2014, 2nd ed.
eISBN-13: 9780335246731

Have you heard of ‘evidence based practice’ but don’t know what it means?
Are you having trouble relating evidence to your practice?

This is the book for anyone who has ever wondered what evidence based practice is or how to relate it to practice. Fully updated in this brand new edition, this book is simple and easy to understand – and designed to help those new to the topic to apply the concept to their practice and learning with ease.

The book provides a step by step guide to what we mean by evidence based practice and how to apply it. This new edition features:

  • Additional material on literature reviews and searching for literature
  • Even more examples for health and social care practice
  • Extra material on qualitative research and evidence based practice
  • Expanded section on hierarchies of evidence and how to use them

A Beginner’s Guide to Evidence Based Practice in Health and Social Care is key reading for everyone involved in looking at and applying evidence in healthcare.

Burns and Grove’s The Practice of Nursing Research: Appraisal, synthesis, and generation of evidence, 8th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: [edited By] Jennifer R. Gray, Susan K. Grove, Suzanne Sutherland. Pages: 738 Size: 10.84 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Saunders
Published: 10 August, 2016
eISBN-13: 978032337760

Master the research methods used as a foundation for evidence-based practice! Burns and Grove’s The Practice of Nursing Research, 8th Edition provides a solid foundation in the appraisal, synthesis, and generation of research evidence for clinical nursing practice. Not only will you learn how to properly evaluate and use existing research evidence, but you’ll also learn how to participate in research and quality improvement projects. Updated to reflect today’s focus on online research and evidence-based practice, this edition includes clear, step-by-step guidelines to research procedures as well as many examples from current and classic literature. From an expert author team led by Jennifer Gray, this book helps you perform scholarly research for evidence-based practice.

Being a nurse : A personal guide from graduation to revalidation

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Lauren Philpott. Pages: 186 Size: 1.94 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Lantern Publishing
Published: 30 June, 2018
eISBN-13: 9781908625540

Being a Nurse will help both student nurses and newly qualified nurses in their progression from graduation to revalidation. Packed full of personal accounts, hints and tips, the book provides advice to new starters on dealing with the challenges of being a nurse. It covers important topics such as first-day nerves, the value of teamwork, how to avoid burnout, coping with a bad day and how to know when you’re ready to progress. The author takes a jargon-free, supportive approach that aims to help you develop your confidence as a nurse so that you in turn can offer the best care for your patients.

Nursing practice: knowledge and care, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Ian Peate, Karen Wild. Pages: 987 Size: 107.53 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 20 November, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781119237488

The second edition of the successful and definitive nursing textbook, Nursing Practice is designed to support the student throughout the entire nursing degree. Structured around the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct, it explores a range of clinical and professional issues that the student will need to know, in one complete and accessible volume. Thoroughly updated and with full-colour, high quality illustrations throughout, this new edition features an additional chapter on the principles of supporting families and carers in practice, advice on revalidation, as well as a number of learning features and activities to help consolidate learning. Nursing Practice provides invaluable information to enable not just student nurses, but also those who are qualified and members of the extended nursing family, to develop a deeper understanding of their patients needs and to ensure that they are practicing safely and effectively.

Text Atlas of Wound Management, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: [edited By] Vincent Falanga ; With Christina Lindholm … [et Al.]. Pages: 228 Size: 206.96 MB Format: PDF Publisher: CRC Press Inc
Published: 20 March, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781841848785

The second edition of this critically acclaimed Text Atlas of Wound Management presents new features for dermatologists and nurses who deal with the practical and clinical aspects of wound care. Expert contributors provide a hands-on approach to diagnosis and wound management, as well as a broad exposure to cutaneous wounds-both acute and chronic-to ensure complete exposure to the problems encountered and solutions offered. This colorful guide enables readers to feel as though they are analyzing wounds alongside the experts. With high-quality color illustrations throughout, new highlights include a chapter on histopathology and a section on sourcing products.

Ewles & Simnett’s Promoting Health: A Practical Guide, 7th ed.

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Author: Angela Scriven ; Foreword By Shirley Cramer. Pages: 281 Size: 2.86 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Bailliere Tindall
Published: 30 June, 2017
eISBN-13: 9780702066948

Retaining the features that characterized the phenomenal success of previous editions – namely, authority, accessibility and a user-friendly style – the latest edition of Ewles & Simnett’s Promoting Health: A Practical Guide, continues to offer readers with a sound introduction to the theory and practice of promoting public health.

Organised into three parts, the first section, ‘Thinking About Health, Health Promotion and Public Health’, explains what health, health promotion, public health and health education entail. The second part, ‘Planning and Managing Health Promotion and Public Health Practice‘ focuses on the health promoter’s daily work, beginning with a basic planning and evaluation framework followed by a discussion of how to identify and assess needs and priorities. The final part of the book, ‘Competence in Health Promotion and Public Health Practice‘, examines how readers can develop their competence in carrying out a range of activities, including enabling clients to learn in one-to-one and group settings, working with communities and changing policies and practices.

Fully updated throughout by a renowned author, the latest edition of this classic book includes the latest research on the comparative effectiveness of different approaches to health promotion and public health practice, and explores the development of public health communication strategies, including social marketing, social media campaigns, and use of pressure groups and ‘nudging’. The book also highlights the latest thinking on a wide variety of topics to ensure relevance to a broad array of practitioners working across differing settings.

Richly endowed with a wide range of interactive exercises and helpful case studies, Ewles & Simnett’s Promoting Health: A Practical Guide, seventh edition, will be ideal for anyone involved with health promotion and public health wherever they are based.

  • New edition of a seminal text fully updated for today’s reader
  • Focuses on the theories, principles and competencies for practice across a wide range of settings ranging from communities, schools, and workplaces, to GP surgeries and hospitals
  • Authoritative and accessible writing style helps make learning easy
  • Reflective activities help students consolidate their learning
  • Case studies – many from real life – provide practical examples to help readers apply concepts to their own setting
  • Gives emphasis to good communication and the effective use of communication tools
  • Practice points help readers structure their study and recap on what they have learned
  • Describes changes to the structure and organisation of public health within the UK, including the latest national standards for work in health promotion and public health
  • Outlines new research on the comparative effectiveness of different approaches to health promotion and public health practice
  • Explores the development of public health communication strategies, including social marketing, social media campaigns, and use of pressure groups and ‘nudging’
  • Highlights the latest ‘current thinking’ across a variety of different settings, to ensure relevance to a broad array of practitioners working across differing settings
  • Explores the increasing use of the internet to help individuals monitor and support their own wellbeing

Learning to Care: The Nursing Associate

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Ian Peate. Pages: 586 Size: 43.2 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 09 January, 2019
eISBN-13: 9780702077951

Richly illustrated throughout, this comprehensive resource is designed to fully equip Trainee Nursing Associates for their future role as professional healthcare providers with chapters ranging from ‘how to learn’ and essay writing to communication skills, reflective practice, and the role of evidence-based clinical decision making. Basic anatomy and physiology, together with the care and treatment of common disorders, form the second part of the volume. The book includes a wide range of learning features.

 

  • Clear, no nonsense writing style helps make learning easy
  • Provides helpful advice on study skills and essay writing
  • Incorporates the 15 Standards of the Care Certificate
  • Learning objectives at the start of each chapter enable readers to monitor their progress
  • Key Words feature encourage familiarisation with a new vocabulary
  • ‘Self Test’ questions at the start of each chapter allow readers to establish their baseline knowledge
  • Reflection and Critical Awareness features encourage critical thinking and recall of essential information
  • Medicine Trolley feature outlines common drugs, their usage, routes of administration and side effects
  • Case Studies give practical context to core information
  • Care in the Home Setting, At the GP Surgery and Communities of Care boxes illustrate healthcare provision outside the hospital environment
  • Includes anatomy and physiology and pathophysiology of important diseases and disorders
  • OSCEs help trainee nursing associates prepare for examinations
  • Helpful glossary provides definitions of new terms

 

 

Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Robert J. Wicks. Pages: 214 Size: 805 KB Format: PDF Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 25 August, 2005
eISBN-13: 978019803845

Physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals working in today’s health care settings must be prepared to offer support in dangerous times despite staffing shortages, financial pressures, and complex legal requirements. Overcoming Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice: A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being is a concise guide for all medical professionals who face these demands. This book:

  • Provides critical information about the dangers of compassion fatigue/burnout and vicarious post-traumatic stress disorder in health care settings
  • Introduces a newly-developed “Medical-Nursing Professional Secondary Stress Self-Awareness Questionnaire” that can be profitably self-administered at each phase of one’s career and reflected upon in private, with one’s mentor, or in a small group setting
  • Includes a unique section on strengthening one’s inner life through the use of three core spiritual wisdom approaches drawn from a world religion perspective
  • Provides a description of four types of “voices” one needs to have in one’s circle of friends to ensure that balance, perspective, growth, and challenge are fostered in one’s personal and professional life
  • Describes how physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals can formulate a personally-designed self-care protocol for themselves

Lastly, this book offers an extensive and up-to date bibliography of recent research, clinical papers, and books on medical-nursing practice and secondary stress. Overcoming Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice is an indispensable resource for medical and nursing professionals, students, and the counselors and therapists who work with them.

Prenatal and Postnatal Care: A Woman Centred Approach

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Robin G. Jordan, Janet L. Engstrom, Julie A. Marfell, And Cindy L. Farley. Pages: 698 Size: 18.72 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 11 November, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781118766903

Prenatal and Postnatal Care: A Woman-Centered Approach is a comprehensive resource for the care of the pregnant woman before and after birth. Ideal as a graduate text for newly-qualified adult nurses, family and women`s health practitioners, and midwives, the book can also be used as an in-depth reference for antenatal and postpartum care for those already in practice. Beginning by outlining the physiological foundations of prenatal and postnatal care, and then presenting these at an advanced practice level, the book moves on to discuss preconception and prenatal care, the management of common health problems during pregnancy, and postnatal care. Each chapter includes quick-reference definitions of relevant terminology and statistics on current trends in prenatal and postnatal care, together with cultural considerations to offer comprehensive management of individual patient needs. Written by experts in the field, Prenatal and Postnatal Care: A Woman-Centered Approach deftly combines the physiological foundation of prenatal and postnatal care with practical application for a comprehensive, holistic approach applicable to a variety of clinical settings.

Women’s Health Care in Advanced Practice Nursing, 2nd ed

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Alexander, Ivy M., Phd, Aprn, Anp-Bc, Faanp, Faan;johnson-Mallard, Versie, Phd, Arnp, Whnp-Bc, Faanp;kostas-Polston, Elizabeth, Phd, Aprn, Whnp-Bc, Faanp;fogel, Catherine Ingram, Phd, Rnc, Faan;fugate Woods, Nancy, Phd, Rn, Faan Pages: 2,251 Size: 24.94 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 28 June, 2017
eISBN-13: 9780826190048

Replete with vital information, the second edition of this authoritative women’s health text provides graduate nursing students and nurse practitioners with the resources to deliver optimal health to women of all ages. Edited by a team of highly distinguished clinicians, scholars, and educators, chapters retain a distinctive sociocultural lens that gives a view of women’s health as it relates to women’s lives and identities. Eighteen new chapters address clinical primary care topics, genetics, environmental and occupational health promotion, health considerations for female caregivers, transgender care, urologic health concerns, dementia care, and more. An instructor’s toolkit includes multiple resources to enhance critical thinking, and case studies engage critical thinking skills to apply the multidimensional content in context.This uniquely comprehensive resource examines women’s health through a variety of clinical practice and theoretical frameworks such as feminism, feminist theory, and globalization. The second edition retains the important focus on prevention, managing symptoms, and health problems that are unique to women. Chapters address relevant legal issues, health throughout the life span, nutrition and exercise, sleep difficulties, mental health, LGBTQ health, fertility, substance abuse, violence against women, and dozens of specific health disorders.New to the Second Edition:Updated to include the most current evidence-based, primary care management guidelines in women’s health.

  • Includes 18 new chapters addressing health promotion and symptom management
  • Provides a robust instructor’s toolkit to foster critical thinking
  • Organized to enhance easy retrieval of numerous clinical topics
  • Includes theoretical frameworks for women’s health, health promotion and prevention, and women’s health management
  • Presents brand-new information on genetics, transgender health, endocrine-related problems, health considerations for caregivers, and dementia care
  • Key Features:
    • Distills cutting-edge information on women’s health issues through a sociocultural framework
    • Offers a comprehensive investigation of key topics in women’s health

Edited by renowned scholar/educators for advanced practice nursing.

Rapid Research Methods for Nurses, Midwives and Health Professionals

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Colin Rees. Pages: 141 Size: 706 KB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 30 November, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781119048398

Rapid Research Methods for Nurses, Midwives and Health Professionals is designed to help you find and understand the meaning of key research terminology and, more importantly, develop your knowledge of some of the essential ideas and concepts they describe. This A-Z dictionary of terms is a collection of over 200 entries with a definition of each word put in context with additional tips on its use in assignment work. Alphabetically arranged in an accessible, reader-friendly format, this book: * Answers a clear demand for a practical, fast and concise introduction to the key ideas, concepts and methods in nursing and healthcare research * Provides students with fast and accessible information designed for revision and writing research-based assignments * Demystifies a field of study that students often find daunting

Myles Survival Guide to Midwifery

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Maureen Raynor, Christine Catling. Pages: 623 Size: 8.16 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 15 March, 2017
eISBN-13: 9780702071775

The latest edition of the Survival Guide to Midwifery continues to offer readers with a wealth of information presented in a quick reference format which is perfectly tailored for use in the clinical environment.

Fully updated throughout and now with new authorship, the book covers the core essentials of midwifery with topics that range from anatomy and reproduction, change and adaptation in pregnancy, antenatal care, clinical investigations, abnormalities and common medical problems. Other areas include obstetric emergencies, physical problems and complications in the puerperium, infant feeding, and the sick neonate.

Now rebranded as Myles Survival Guide to Midwifery, this popular title will be ideal for midwives – whether qualified or in training – in all parts of the world.

  • Helpful bullet point style allows rapid access to essential information
  • Useful revision guide for examinations and assessments
  • Contains common abbreviations, medications, drug calculations, glossary of common terms, and normal values
  • Thoroughly revised to reflect key developments in current midwifery practice
  • Now includes further reading and useful website addresses

An Introduction to Research for Midwives

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Colin Rees. Pages: 260 Size: 1.8 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Published: 11 April, 2011
eISBN-13: 9780702045929

Struggling to understand the language of research? Need to understand the basic principles and processes of research? Do you find it difficult to know how to apply research to clinical practice? This third edition of “Introduction to Research for Midwives” is the answer! In simple language, it explains the world of research both for those who must use it as part of evidence-based practice and those undertaking research. The content is particularly student-friendly and provides clear guidelines on critiquing research articles and producing successful reviews of the literature, with many tips on producing assignments that really work. All midwives and other health professionals will find this book invaluable in applying research to their own practice.

Staff Nurse Survival Guide: Essential Questions and Answers for the Practicing Staff Nurse

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By John Fowler. Pages: 233 Size: 2.1 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Andrews UK Ltd
Published: 12 July, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781856425018

Consisting of over 80 questions and answers from 19 different specialists, the 2nd edition of the “Staff Nurse Survival Guide” covers all the common situations that a newly qualified nurse might encounter. This second edition adopts the same easy to read question and answer format that made the first edition so successful with student nurses, qualified nurses and healthcare assistants. This handy reference guide contains ideas, principles and guidelines for a number of common and sometimes unexpected situations that newly qualified nurses are likely to encounter. Designed to be a quick reference for everyday use, this book provides readers with key information to tackle daily tasks at work with confidence. The new edition covers topics such as: dealing with complaints, mental health, clinical supervision, aggression, bereavement, central venous pressure monitoring, mentoring a student and much more. The questions are divided into five chapters: dealing with the unexpected, clinical nursing skills, dealing with bereavement and palliative care, principles of medication and the role of the staff nurse, allowing for quick and easy referral. It is an extremely useful pocket resource for all nurses.

Dental Nurse Survival Guide: Common Questions and Answers for the Dental Nurse

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: By Kathryn Porter. Pages: 93 Size: 758 KB Format: EPUB Publisher: Andrews UK Ltd
Published: 10 November, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781856424608

This highly practical text aims to provide the newly qualified dental nurse with with a basic guide to dental nursing issues. The Dental Nurse Survival Guide adopts the same Q&A format that has proven so successful with the best selling Staff Nurse Survival Guide. Each guide is a collection of all the common situations that a newly qualified practitioner might face. The aim is to produce an answer for each question that could be read in 5 minutes – a pocket-sized handbook containing ideas, principles and guidelines for a number of common and sometimes unexpected situations encountered in the first year of practice. Written by experienced author who wrote The Dental Nurses` Guide to Infection Control and Decontamination.

Venepuncture & Cannulation: A practical guide, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 87 Size: 2.11 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: M&K Update Ltd.
Published: 07 February, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781907830501

Venepuncture and Cannulation – A Practical Guide offers an easy-to-read, comprehensive account of the practical procedures of venepuncture and intravenous cannulation. It provides the underlying theory and underpinning knowledge required, as well as a step-by-step approach that will enable healthcare practitioners to carry out these procedures safely, efficiently and with confidence. This book is intended as a supplementary resource for those involved in practising or teaching these procedures, for healthcare practitioners wishing to update their knowledge, and for novice practitioners learning these skills for the first time. Each chapter contains intended learning outcomes and points for practice. Some chapters also include helpful illustrations and practical activities, and the book ends with two self-assessment checklists. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and includes a very useful ‘Test yourself’ chapter at the end of the book. Readers can now test their knowledge by answering the relevant questions. They can also identify any gaps in their current level of knowledge or skill, as well as further learning opportunities that may be required to support their practice

Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Nursing

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Vidette Todaro-Franceschi. Pages: 255 Size: 1.83 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 20 September, 2012
eISBN-13: 9780826109781

Compassion fatigue afflicts nurses working in all caring environments and has become a serious issue in health care institutions nationwide. This is the only book to specifically address this challenge and the related syndrome of burnout in nursing. It presents a unique healing model designed to identify, treat and, where possible, avert compassion fatigue with holistic strategies and action plans that help cultivate a healthier, more satisfying work environment.

The volume addresses risk factors for and manifestations of compassion fatigue, burnout, and other related experiences such as PTS, death overload, collective trauma, and moral distress, and presents strategies to mediate and resolve these issues. The author emphasizes ways in which dissatisfaction influences the quality of patient care and calls for nurses to reinvent their work environments to favor compassion contentment. Case vignettes and exercises will help readers identify and alter patterns of negativity to reaffirm purpose in their professional lives.

Key Features:

  • Describes the positive and negative contributors to professional quality of life
  • Explores the multifaceted nature of compassion fatigue and burnout, in nursing
  • Addresses the unique risk factors for nurses who work in critical care/ER, oncology, medical/surgical, and palliative care areas
  • Offers holistic self and group strategies and action plans to help leadership and staff nurses overcome compassion fatigue and promote work satisfaction
  • Addresses gaps in education which contribute to the development of compassion fatigue and burnout
  • Designed for nurses in stressful health care environments, and nurse educators and students

Safeguarding and Protecting Children in the Early Years

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By James Reid With Steven Burton. Pages: 257 Size: 5.66 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge Ltd
Published: 09 October, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781315559551

This new edition provides a comprehensive guide for safeguarding and child protection in the early years. Aimed at both students and practitioners, it offers clear insight and guidance into the legal and policy foundations for effective safeguarding practice, together with both the historical context and also more contemporary developments in safeguarding practice in the early years sector.  It has been fully updated to reflect current legislation and includes new material on interagency work, supporting children’s resilience and safeguarding all children. Drawing on the everyday dilemmas and experiences of early years professionals, it helps you to find solutions to both practical and moral issues in a context of legal duties and responsibilities. The chapters consider:

  • the historical context of safeguarding and child protection
  • the legislative framework around safeguarding and child protection
  • safeguarding through inter-professional and multidisciplinary work
  • the identification of neglect in early years children
  • the consequential abuse that can occur as a result of parental behaviours
  • safeguarding children’s health and wellbeing
  • safeguarding as a member of a team, and the importance of communication
  • safeguarding against the misuse of technology.

Safeguarding and Protecting Children in the Early Years has been written by a multidisciplinary team of academics from a breadth of UK universities, with a wealth of experience in safeguarding and child protection, the EYFS, health visiting, social work, the police and in leading and managing services for children and families. This second edition is essential reading for anyone working with or aspiring to work with children in the early years.

Qualitative Research in Nursing and Healthcare, 4th ed.

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Author: Immy Holloway And Kathleen Galvin. Pages: 379 Size: 2.26 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 01 August, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781118874479

Qualitative Research in Nursing and Healthcare is an invaluable resource for those who carry out qualitative research in the healthcare arena. It is intended to assist: * Professionals and academics in the healthcare field who undertake or teach research in clinical or educational settings;

  • Postgraduates who are undertaking qualitative research and want to revise qualitative research approaches and procedures before going on to more specialist texts; and
  • Undergraduates in their last year who wish to learn about qualitative perspectives or carry out a project using these approaches.

Fully updated from the earlier editions by Holloway and Wheeler, it reflects recent developments in nursing research. This new edition provides clear explanations of abstract ideas in qualitative research as well as practical procedures. Structured into four sections, the book looks at the initial stages, methods of data collection, qualitative approaches and analysis of collected data. It also contains a chapter on writing up and publishing qualitative research. With applied and practical examples throughout, Qualitative Research in Nursing and Healthcare is essential reading for those who are looking for a comprehensive introduction to qualitative research.

Person-Centred Practice in Nursing and Health Care, 2nd ed.

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Author: Edited By Brendan McCormack, Tanya McCance. Pages: 290 Size: 2.25 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 21 July, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781118990575

Person-centred Practice in Nursing and Health Care is a comprehensive and practical resource for all nurses and healthcare practitioners who want to develop person-centred ways of working. This second edition which builds on the original text Person Centred Nursing, has been significantly revised and expanded to provide a timely and topical exploration of an important subject which underpins all nursing and healthcare, edited by internationally renowned experts in the field. Person-centred Practice in Nursing and Health Care looks at the importance of person-centred practice (PCP) from a variety of practice, strategic, and policy angles, exploring how the principles of PCP underpin a variety of perspectives, including within leadership and in the curriculum. The book explores not only a range of methodologies, but also covers a variety of different healthcare settings and contexts, including working within mental health services, acute care, nursing homes, the community, and working with children and people with disabilities. Key features:

  • Significantly updated and expanded since the previous edition, taking into account the considerable changes in recent health care advancements, including the Francis report
  • Builds on previous perspectives of person-centredness in nursing and applies them in a broader nursing and health care context
  • Includes a stronger exploration on the role of the service-user
  • Shows the use of life-story and narrative approaches as a way of putting the individual s identity at the heart of the care relationship
  • Includes learning features such as links to current practice developments and reflective questions

Palliative Care Nursing at a Glance

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Author: Edited By Christine Ingleton, Philip Larkin. Pages: 152 Size: 16.81 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 16 November, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781118759202

Palliative Care Nursing at a Glance is the perfect companion for nursing students, health and social care practitioners, and all those involved in palliative care delivery, both in the clinical and home setting. Written by an expert team of academics, nurses, educators and researchers it provides a concise and easy-to-read overview of all the concepts and clinical decision-making skills necessary for the provision of good-quality palliative and end-of-life care. Divided into six sections, the book includes coverage of all key clinical applications, principles of symptom management, palliative care approaches for a range of conditions and patient groups, exploration of the roles of the multi-professional team, as well as ethical challenges.

  • Superbly illustrated, with full colour illustrations throughout
  • Provides information on delivery of care in a range of settings
  • Broad coverage makes it ideal reading for anyone involved in palliative care delivery
  • User-friendly and accessible resource for those working in both specialist and non-specialist adult settings

Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care At The End of Life, 5th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 1,476 Size: 18.4 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 28 June, 2018
eISBN-13: 978082612719

The fifth edition of this seminal reference and text in palliative care nursing helps the practitioner and student offer comprehensive, targeted interventions responsive to the needs of palliative and hospice patients and families. Based on the best level of evidence available, reference to clinical practice guidelines, and palliative care order sets to address critical symptoms, the knowledge presented in this edition supports compassionate, timely, appropriate and cost-effective care to achieve quality health outcomes for diverse palliative care populations across the illness trajectory. Noteworthy features of the new edition include broadening population health management by helping the reader to identify patterns and connections within and across population and utilize information to respond to the needs of populations. This strategy allows the reader to apply strategies that are consistent with IHI’s Triple Aim that includes Improving the patient experience of care, Improving the health of populations and reducing the per capita cost of health care. Every Chapter in Sections 1, 2, and 3 includes an Evidence Based Box with a current study including a commentary written by someone from a discipline other than nursing or by an interdisciplinary team

Foundations for Health Promotion, 4th ed.

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Author: Jennie Naidoo, Principal Lecturer, Health Promotion And Public Health, University Of The West Of England, Bristol, Uk, Jane Wills, Professor Of Health Promotion, London South Bank, University, London, UK. Pages: 349 Size: 4.17 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 19 February, 2016
eISBN-13: 9780702054440

The fourth edition of Foundations for Health Promotion continues to offer a wealth of information in a friendly, easy-to-read format. This edition has been comprehensively updated and includes a new feature of learning activities with indicative answers to help students and practitioners to reflect on their practice. ‘Pull out’ boxes of case studies and examples help the reader to identify the evidence base for health promotion and illustrate the range of health promotion practice. Divided into four parts, the book first explains the theoretical concepts of health, health education and health promotion and the ethical and political aspects of practice. The second part explores strategies to promote health and some of the dilemmas that they pose. The third part explores how a range of different settings, such as hospitals and schools, can be oriented towards positive health and well-being. The fourth part focuses on the implementation of health promotion interventions and is designed to help practitioners to reflect on their practice by examining what drives their choice of strategy.

Foundations for Health Promotion, Fourth Edition will be ideal for a range of disciplines including health service professionals in primary and acute settings, those working in local and municipal authorities to promote health and wellbeing, health educators and trainers.

  • Comprehensive updating and expansion to reflect recent research findings and major organizational and policy changes
  • Clear structure and signposting for ease of reading and study
  • Wide choice of examples and illustrative case studies reflect the needs of a variety of professional groups in health services, local and municipal services and education
  • Ineractive learning activities with indicative answers help readers consolidate their learning
  • Comprehensively updated and expanded to reflect major organizational and policy changes
  • Interactive learning activities with indicative answers at the end of each chapter
  • ‘Pull out’ boxes illustrate recent research findings and case studies of practice

District Nursing Manual of Clinical Procedures

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Liz O`Brien. Pages: 431 Size: 9.31 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 15 March, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781118274163

This manual, the first of its kind focused on district nursing, provides the means to build competence and confidence in nurses new to the community, or developing their skills. The comprehensive and evidence-based content provides essential information for competence in key areas of district nursing.” -From the Foreword, by Rosemary Cook CBE, Hon D Lett, MSc, PG Dip, RGN Director, The Queen`s Nursing Institute Clinical skills are a fundamental aspect of district nursing care. TheDistrict Nursing Manual of Clinical Procedures is a practical, evidenced-based manual of clinical skills which reflects the unique challenges of district nursing care within the patient`s home. It provides a comprehensive resource for all district nurses, community nurses, students, and health-care professionals involved in the district nursing team, enabling them to practice confidently and deliver clinically effective, person-centred care. The District Nursing Manual of Clinical Procedures addresses the complexity of district nursing care and encompasses key aspects of clinical practice, including those that district and community nurses often struggle with or find difficult when they are on their own in a patient`s home. It utilises the latest clinical research and expert clinical knowledge to address these challenges, and to provide the underlying theory and evidence for district nursing care. Key features

  • Evidenced-based manual of practical clinical skills in district nursing care
  • Clear, user-friendly and easy to understand
  • Contains recommendations for expert care within a patient`s own home
  • Addresses key concerns of district and community nurses working on their own within a patient`s home
  • Encompasses key aspects of district nursing care
  • Placed in the context of person-centred care
  • All procedures include the rationale for each action – `why` as well as `how

Community and Public Health Nursing, 5th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By David Sines [and Five Others]. Pages: 365 Size: 2.71 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 09 October, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781118426906

“An extremely popular and valuable resource to students, practitioners and managers in community health care nursing” – Journal of Advanced Nursing The fifth edition of Community and Public Health Nursing is an essential source of information for all those working in primary and community healthcare. Comprehensive and accessible, it draws on the knowledge of a wide range of experts and conveys all the information and skills nurses working in modern primary care settings require. It includes material on policy developments, research perspectives, health visiting, practice and district nursing, team working, advanced nursing practice, non-medical prescribing, inter-professional practice, and user involvement. New edition of the definitive textbook on community healthcare nursing Covers learning disability nursing, caring for patients with mental health conditions, and community children`s nursing and school nursing Written by experts in the field — providing authority and insight Thorough, comprehensive, and up-to-date with the latest policy guidelines Community and Public Health Nursing is an invaluable resource for novice and experienced practitioners, and for all healthcare professionals who work in the primary care and community setting, including practice nurses, nurse practitioners, district nurses, community staff nurses, health visitors, school nurses, walk-in centre nurses and sexual health nurses.

A Textbook of Community Nursing, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Chilton, Sue;Bain, Heather Pages: 405 Size: 3.91 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge Ltd
Published: 18 October, 2017
eISBN-13: 978131515720

A Textbook of Community Nursing is a comprehensive and evidence-based introduction covering the full range of professional topics, including professional approaches to care, public health, eHealth, therapeutic relationships and the role of community nursing in mental health. The new edition has been updated throughout, including new guidelines and policies. It also provides a stronger focus on evidence-based practice.  This user-friendly and accessible textbook includes:

  • Current theory, policy, and guidelines for practice. All chapters are underpinned by a strong evidence base;
  • Learning objectives for each chapter, plus exercises and activities to test current understanding, promote reflective practice, and encourage further reading;
  • Case studies and examples from practice which draw on all branches of community nursing to illustrate practical application of theory.

This is an essential text for all pre-registration nursing students, students on specialist community nursing courses, and qualified nurses entering community practice for the first time.

Vital Signs for Nurses

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Joyce Smith, Rachel Roberts. Pages: 281 Size: 2.4 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 03 May, 2011
eISBN-13: 9781444341867

Accurate clinical observations are the key to good patient care and fundamental to nursing practice. Vital Signs for Nurses will support anyone in care delivery to enhance their skills, reflect upon their own practice and assist in their continuing professional development. This practical introductory text explores how to make assessments of heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, pain and nutrition. It also looks at issues of infection control, record-keeping and legal and ethical considerations. With case studies and examples throughout, this text will be invaluable to all healthcare assistants, student nurses, Trainee Assistant Practitioners and students on foundation degrees.

Nursing in Context: Policy, Politics, Profession

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Author: Michael Traynor. Pages: 185 Size: 881 KB Format: PDF Publisher: Palgrave Higher Ed M.U.A.
Published: 09 October, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781137350350

Nursing in Context introduces the most important topics and debates for today`s nurses and does this with a combination of readability, wit, criticality and sophistication demanded by degree-level students. Providing a critical historical and political insight into the issues that affect nurses – including professional regulation, the `crisis of care`, NHS restructures, whistle-blowing and poor performance – this book explores the development of key concepts in modern professional practice, so that they are more than just buzzwords to be learned and remembered. Drawing on the author`s research in nursing and healthcare over the past twenty years, the text offers real-life examples of how politics, policy and practice interact, and ends with a positive picture for the future of nursing from trusted leaders of the profession. Nursing in Context provides students with a graduate-level understanding of what it means to be a nurse today. It is an ideal resource for studying professional issues.

Clinical Skills for Nurses

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Claire Boyd. Pages: 224 Size: 74.24 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 19 February, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781118448755

Specifically designed for student nurses, Clinical Skills for Nurses provides a handy, portable introduction to both the knowledge and practical procedures that first year nursing students require. Giving you the knowledge behind the skill, this book will boost your confidence and competence for your clinical placements and time in the clinical skills lab. Clinical Skills for Nurses covers the skills and procedures used most frequently in clinical practice, and includes Point of Care training; personal care; blood transfusion and tracheotomy care; continence and bowel care; and early patient assessment and response. This book uniquely incorporates words of wisdom and advice from real-life student nurses; in other words; written BY the student, FOR the student! Special features: By students, for students Pocket sized for portability on your clinical placement Clear, straightforward, and jargon-free Ties in with the NMC standards for pre-registration education and the Essential Skills Clusters Examples and questions based on real life nursing & healthcare examples

Team-Based Oncology Care: The Pivotal Role of Oncology Navigation

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Shockney, LD Pages: 368 Size: 3.23 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published: 01 January, 2018
eISBN-13: 9783319690384

This book discusses how effective navigation requires a team approach to oncology care and should never be considered an “add-on” resource or service. The Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators (AONN) is the only national professional organization for navigation professionals, and has more than 6,000 members, 90% of which are oncology nurse navigators. They are the experts on creating team-based programs, which remove the risk of others trying to reinvent the wheel by designing a navigation program from scratch. They also understand the role of effective navigation across the entire continuum of care, and understand and are able to apply other key aspects of navigation, including clinical trial screenings and tumor board coordination and monitoring, as well as measurement using evidence-based navigation metrics, to name but a few.It is the only book designed to educate and support anyone developing a new navigation program, or wanting to improve one they have created.As such it offers a guide for cancer centers needing to develop and implement an oncology navigation program; understand and successfully meet and exceed the Commission on Cancer accreditation standards linked to navigation; expand or improve their current navigation program as well as demonstrate its value using reliable measurable results, including patient satisfaction and improved- quality clinical outcomes. This comprehensive book also provides insights into applying the information presented to the real world of oncology care.

Primary Care for Older Adults: Models and Challenges

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 235 Size: 2.57 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 01 January, 2018
eISBN-13: 9783319613291

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic state-of-the science review of major primary care delivery models, how they address specific needs of older adults, and available evidence for their efficacy. Written by experts in the field, this book explores the patient-centered medical home model (PCMH) in depth and dives into the complexities of the “medical neighborhood”. It describes and analyzes primary care specifically directed toward special, complex populations, such as the Health Home for safety net patients with mental health needs, and intensive primary care for older adults. It reviews an array of primary care models related to dual eligible patients including the GRACE primary care consultation model and PACE models. It describes primary care with Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants and explores in-depth the massive effort within the VA to develop the Patient Activated Care Team (PACT), a VA form of the PCMH that also has several offshoots that address complex older veterans and veterans with severe mental illness. Finally, it illuminates rarely discussed primary care that occurs within the home and within long-term care. Throughout the entire book, experts navigate the workforce, care quality, and financing challenges of primary care for older adults. Primary Care for Older Adults is a valuable resource for clinicians, researchers, patients, caregivers and their advocates, and policy makers who have an interest in designing, promoting, and implementing high quality primary care for older adults.

The Essential Dementia Care Handbook: A Good Practice Guide

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Graham Stokes, Fiona Goudie. Pages: 239 Size: 1.32 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge Ltd
Published: 28 April, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781315174075

Replacing the successful “Working with Dementia”, this edition draws together many new ideas and practical approaches from a wide variety of professionals working at the leading edge of the provision of services to people with dementia and provides a comprehensive account of current best practice. Beginning with the diagnosis of dementia and other problems associated with aging, this book considers assessment, the person centered model of dementia, rehabilitation and therapy. It outlines practical interventions, illustrated with case studies that provide a stimulating insight into contemporary understanding and practice. Nursing staff, occupational therapists, residential care workers, social workers and all those in day-to-day contact with elderly people will be inspired by this vital handbook for all care staff.

Nurse-Led Health Clinics

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Tine Hansen-Turton, Susan Sherman, Eunice S. King. Pages: 216 Size: 2.02 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 30 March, 2015
eISBN-13: 9780826128034

Public health nursing–with its focus on compassionate, holistic care and service to the poor, the aged, those suffering from social injustice, and those without adequate health facilities–had its origins over a century ago with the founding of the Henry Street Settlement in New York City. Embracing the same foundational principles, Nurse-Led Health Clinics is the first book to describe innovative, nurse-managed solutions for improving health care today. It addresses the key business, policy, medical, financial, and operational considerations necessary for successfully opening and operating nurse-led health facilities. With the mission to dramatically expand access to primary and preventative health care, these clinics provide a full range of services, including primary care, health promotion, disease prevention, and behavioural health care to residents of underserved communities throughout the U.S. The book delivers a wealth of comprehensive information for nurses who are considering opening their own clinics. Reinforced with best-practice models and case studies, it takes a concrete look at what it takes to successfully start and run a nurse-managed health center. The book addresses the history and growth of nurse-led clinics and describes the nurse-led paradigm of care. It identifies the different types of nurse-led clinics (primary care, school based, wellness clinics, and more) and the clinical services offered within them. Also discussed are the requirements and mind-set of potential consumers and strategies for sustainability along with the role of the collaborative team. The pros and cons of a variety of business and operations models are examined along with quality metrics and initiatives. The book also covers various state and federal policy challenges and opportunities and explores the future of nurse-led care in view of ongoing health care reform. Helpful appendices include a start-up checklist, sample by-laws and a managed care contracting toolkit. Key Features:

  • Describes key business, policy, medical, financial, and operational considerations for running a nurse-managed health center
  • Addresses the pros and cons of a variety of business models for nurse-led care
  • Identifies the most common clinical services offered
  • Presents quality metrics, best practice models, and case studies
  • Includes state and federal policy and regulatory challenges and opportunities

Nursing Calculations

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: J.D. Gatford, N.M. Phillips. Pages: 187 Size: 2.35 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 18 May, 2016
eISBN-13: 9780702063350

This internationally renowned guide to basic arithmetic for nursing students has been fully revised and updated for a new generation of readers. Now entering its ninth edition – with over 200,000 copies sold worldwide – this popular and friendly volume has been designed to make medication calculations straightforward and easy to perform in a variety of settings. Written in response to nurse educators, Nursing Calculations features an initial self-testing chapter to help readers to identify and address areas of difficulty before moving on to numerous practical examples. Chapters then cover the core areas of clinical practice including calculations relating to oral medications (including both tablets and liquid form), injections, intravenous infusions and intravenously administered medication, and paediatric specific medication. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on giving confidence to the reader by explaining in a step-by-step manner how the correct answer is derived together with a wide range of practice questions and later revision opportunities. This edition comes with a quick-reference card to fit in the pocket to remind readers of essential formulae and an additional on-line question bank to allow readers to practice their calculations on the move! Nursing Calculations will be perfect for student nurses and midwives at different levels in a variety of courses, `Return to Practice` students, student paramedics and anyone involved with medication administration in the healthcare setting.

Nursing Key Topics Review: Pediatrics

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Author: Elsevier Pages: 467 Size: 5.9 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 07 September, 2016
eISBN-13: 9780323449335

Study efficiently with Nursing Key Topics Review: Pediatrics! This quick review focus’ on the most critical, practical, and relevant maternal nursing information to prepare you for success on course exams. Concise coverage includes topics from physical assessment and family-centered care to laboratory tests, nursing interventions, and care of the child with issues such as respiratory or cardiac problems. Summary tables and quick, bulleted lists make it easier to glance through and remember concepts. Best of all, it’s easy to assess your understanding as you go along – because key pediatric topics are always immediately followed by review questions with correct answers and rationales.

Nursing Key Topics Review: Maternity

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Elsevier Pages: 363 Size: 4.2 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 08 September, 2016
eISBN-13: 9780323449281

Study efficiently with Nursing Key Topics Review: Maternity! This quick review and accompanying mobile web app focus on the most critical, practical, and relevant maternal nursing information to prepare you for success on course exams. Concise coverage includes topics from pregnancy, labor, and birth to postpartum and newborn nursing care. Summary tables and quick, bulleted lists make it easier to glance through and remember concepts. Mobile web app audio summaries reinforce content when you are on the go. Best of all, it’s easy to assess your understanding as you go along – because key maternity topics are always immediately followed by review questions with correct answers and rationales.

Myles Pocket Reference for Midwives

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Author: Ashwin, Cathy;anderson, Michelle Pages: 103 Size: 1.87 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 29 April, 2017
eISBN-13: 9780702074431

Myles Pocket Reference for Midwives is a brand new resource that offers readers a ready source of up-to-date information at the fingertips!

Well illustrated with over 100 figures, tables and pull-out boxes, this slim pocket guide includes a wealth of information ranging from physical examination to drug calculations, antenatal investigations, screening, infant feeding, medical complications of pregnancy, and birth emergencies.

Myles Pocket Reference for Midwives will be ideal for all midwives – whether qualified or in training.

  • Helpful bullet point style enables rapid access to essential information
  • Rich illustrative programme enables rapid access to key information

Midwifery Essentials: Labour: Volume 3, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Baston, Helen;hall, Jenny Pages: 225 Size: 3.15 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Published: 18 April, 2017
eISBN-13: 9780702071393

The second edition of the popular Midwifery Essentials series continues to help readers understand and master a range of core issues safely and with confidence!

Written by leading midwifery academics, each book in the series provides a user-friendly source of information which has been fully updated throughout to reflect the latest evidence-base for current practice. Now with an improved design to make learning as easy as possible, each paperback in the series focuses on the importance of communication and contemporary women-centred care and presents helpful ‘scenarios’ to encourage debate and reflection.

The Midwifery Essentials series is ideal for all midwives – whether qualified or in training – and is also helpful to nurses and HCAs working in the maternity environment.

  • Fully updated to provide a useful, friendly source of information
  • Strong focus on contemporary women-centred care
  • Designed to stimulate debate and reflection upon current practice, local policies and procedures
  • Scenarios enable practitioners to understand the context of maternity care and explore their role in safe and effective service provision
  • Helpful ‘jigsaw’ approach enables readers to explore specific topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. consent, safety and health promotion
  • Explains the professional and legal issues surrounding clinical procedures
  • Chapters designed to be read as a ‘standalone’ or in succession
  • Emphasises the crucial role of effective communication
  • Makes reference to the latest national and international guidelines
  • Contains new scenarios to reflect recent changes in practice
  • Improved layout aids retention and learning
  • Fully updated throughout with the latest evidence base for clinical skills and procedures
  • Embraces the principles of ‘Better Births’

Midwifery Essentials: Postnatal: Volume 4, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Baston, Helen;hall, Jenny Pages: 201 Size: 2.23 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Published: 17 April, 2017
eISBN-13: 9780702071447
eISBN-10: 0702071447
Print ISBNs: PB: 9780702071003, 0702071005

The second edition of the popular Midwifery Essentials series continues to help readers understand and master a range of core issues safely and with confidence!

Written by leading midwifery academics, each book in the series provides a user-friendly source of information which has been fully updated throughout to reflect the latest evidence-base for current practice. Now with an improved design to make learning as easy as possible, each paperback in the series focuses on the importance of communication and contemporary women-centred care and presents helpful ‘scenarios’ to encourage debate and reflection.

The Midwifery Essentials series is ideal for all midwives – whether qualified or in training – and is also helpful to nurses and HCAs working in the maternity environment.

  • Fully updated to provide a useful, friendly source of information
  • Strong focus on contemporary women-centred care
  • Designed to stimulate debate and reflection upon current practice, local policies and procedures
  • Scenarios enable practitioners to understand the context of maternity care and explore their role in safe and effective service provision
  • Helpful ‘jigsaw’ approach enables readers to explore specific topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. consent, safety and health promotion
  • Explains the professional and legal issues surrounding clinical procedures
  • Chapters designed to be read as a ‘standalone’ or in succession
  • Emphasises the crucial role of effective communication
  • Makes reference to the latest national and international guidelines
  • Contains new scenarios to reflect recent changes in practice
  • Improved layout aids retention and learning
  • Fully updated throughout with the latest evidence base for clinical skills and procedures
  • Embraces the principles of ‘Better Births’

Midwifery Essentials: Basics: Volume 1, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Baston, Helen;hall, Jenny;einion, Alys Bethan Pages: 259 Size: 2.75 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 20 April, 2017
eISBN-13: 9780702071331

The second edition of the popular Midwifery Essentials series continues to help readers understand and master a range of core issues safely and with confidence!

Written by leading midwifery academics, each book in the series provides a user-friendly source of information which has been fully updated throughout to reflect the latest evidence-base for current practice. Now with an improved design to make learning as easy as possible, each paperback in the series focuses on the importance of communication and contemporary women-centred care and presents helpful ‘scenarios’ to encourage debate and reflection.

The Midwifery Essentials series is ideal for all midwives – whether qualified or in training – and is also helpful to nurses and HCAs working in the maternity environment.

  • Fully updated to provide a useful, friendly source of information
  • Strong focus on contemporary women-centred care
  • Designed to stimulate debate and reflection upon current practice, local policies and procedures
  • Scenarios enable practitioners to understand the context of maternity care and explore their role in safe and effective service provision
  • Helpful ‘jigsaw’ approach enables readers to explore specific topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. consent, safety and health promotion
  • Explains the professional and legal issues surrounding clinical procedures
  • Chapters designed to be read as a ‘standalone’ or in succession
  • Emphasises the crucial role of effective communication
  • Makes reference to the latest national and international guidelines
  • Contains new scenarios to reflect recent changes in practice
  • Improved layout aids retention and learning
  • Fully updated throughout with the latest evidence base for clinical skills and procedures
  • Embraces the principles of ‘Better Births’

Mayes’ Midwifery, 15th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Macdonald, Sue;johnson, Gail Pages: 1,221 Size: 32.75 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Bailliere Tindall
Published: 14 August, 2017
eISBN-13: 9780702063367

Mayes Midwifery retains all of the features that characterised the success of earlier editions – authority, accessibility and comprehensiveness – while addressing the wider context of current midwifery practice by applying evidence into practice.

The book explores anatomy and applied physiology, a wide range of public health issues, as well as cultural competence. Fast moving areas such as professional and leadership issues, fertility control, genetics, foetal development, medical problems in pregnancy and care of the new born and baby with complex needs are brought right up to date.

The latest edition of Mayes’ Midwifery has also been redesigned to further assist with engagement of the topics while the artwork programme has been upgraded to help with the understanding of complex physiological processes. As with the previous edition, the book also comes with an associated website containing over 600 MCQs, case studies, and reflective activities together with a wealth of other learning tools.

Mayes’ Midwifery 15th edition is an essential tool for midwives at every stage of their professional career – student midwives seeking knowledge, skills and guidance on their journey to becoming midwives – midwives returning to practice and for qualified midwives wherever they work. Nurses and health care assistants working on maternity units in the UK and overseas will also find the volume an important resource.

  • New edition of a classic textbook updated and designed for today’s midwifery student!
  • Chapters authored by experts in their field, including midwifery academics and clinicians as well as allied professionals such as researchers, physiotherapists, neonatal nurse specialists, social scientists and legal experts
  • Evidence and research based throughout to help facilitate safe clinical practice
  • Learning outcomes and key points help readers structure their study and recap on what they have learned
  • Reflective activities encourage the application of theory to practice
  • Contains practice based tools and checklists
  • Presents and discusses the latest national and international guidelines
  • Associated website with over 600 MCQs, reflective activities to encourage the application of theory to practice, case studies and additional learning tools
  • Downloadable image bank to assist readers with essay preparation and other assignments
  • Suitable for use in normal community and midwife led arenas, high tech environments and more rural areas of clinical practice
  • Brand new design – incorporating helpful learning features – aids reader engagement and retention of facts
  • Updated artwork program helps clarify complex physiological processes and other challenging concepts

Injectable Drugs Guide

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Author: Alistair Gray …[et Al.]. Pages: 928 Size: 32.61 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Published: 01 February, 2011
eISBN-13: 9780857110213

This is a guide to the important information for safe and effective administration of injectable drugs. This is an A-Z pocket guide of injectable drugs in monograph format including information on: Final concentration of reconstituted solutions; Stability; Periodicity of monitoring; and, Unusual electrolyte, glucose and excipients content. Each monograph includes: Pre-treatment checks, Dose, Preparation and Administration, Technical information (including compatibility), Stability, Further monitoring (blood pressure, glucose etc), and Professional information (undesirable effects, significant interactions, overdose, counselling). The safe administration of drugs by injection is an essential activity that is performed daily in the health care setting. Multiple drug use and drug administration protocols make this increasingly complex and this book aims to give immediate access to the important/key information for safe and effective administration of injectable drugs.

Minor Injuries: A clinical guide

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Author: Dennis Purcell ;foreword By Mark Cooper. Pages: 320 Size: 8.27 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Published: 13 August, 2016
eISBN-13: 9780702066726

The latest edition of this popular textbook continues to offer accessible, practical and clinically relevant information on the management of minor injuries. Reflecting the author’s long experience as a practitioner and teacher, the volume covers anatomy, examination and specific injuries in the depth that the specialty requires. Injuries to all parts of the body are included. Richly illustrated throughout – with many original images based on the author’s own designs – the volume is also accompanied by online videos where the author demonstrates the limb examinations which are described in the text. The new edition has expanded to survey the law and the basic principles for X-ray requesting and interpretation in minor injury areas. The volume also offers more detailed guidance on the specific X-rays which are required for each of the limb joints. This material is intended to satisfy the legal training requirements for new practitioners to request X-rays as non-medical referrers. Fully updated to include the latest guidelines and current practice on minor injuries of every kind, the third edition now offers a more comprehensive structure for the specialty of minor injuries, based on injuries to the limb and to the midline. Within the different topics under these broad headings, advice is given on the care of children, adults and the elderly. Minor Injuries: A Clinical Guide, third edition, will be indispensable to every trainee, from nursing and from other professions, and to those who are already qualified and who wish to expand or update their practice. The volume also aims to equip practitioners to work in stand-alone units, seeing every patient who presents, and as such is ideal for those undertaking Advanced Practice training. The book also offers teachers of minor injuries a rationale for their sessions and a framework for designing their courses.

Integrated Diabetes Care: A Multidisciplanary Approach

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Author: David Simmons Simmons, David, Helmut Wenzel Wenzel, Helmut, Janice C. Zgibor Zgibor, Janice C. Pages: 257 Size: 4 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 01 January, 2017
eISBN-13: 9783319133898

Integrating care across disciplines and organisations around the needs of the person with diabetes has been proposed as an approach that could improve care while reducing cost- but has it and can it? Integrated Diabetes Care- A Multidisciplinary Approach collates evidence of worldwide approaches to both horizontal integration (across disciplines) and vertical integration (across organizations) in diabetes care and describe what was done, what worked and what appeared to be the barriers to achieving the goals of the programmes. Evidence is sought from groups who have developed different approaches to integrating diabetes care in different health systems (eg insurance vs tax payer funded, single vs multiple organization, published vs unpublished). A final chapter brings the evidence together for a final discussion about what seems to work and what does not.

How to be a Nurse or Midwife Leader

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Author: Edited By David Ashton, Jamie Ripman, Philippa Williams. Pages: 235 Size: 1.41 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 02 December, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781119187004

How to be a Nurse or Midwife Leader is an indispensable guide for all nurses and midwives who wish to develop and improve their practice as leaders. Written in collaboration with the NHS Leadership Academy, this practical book draws on the real experience of over 10,000 nurses and midwives to bring leadership dilemmas to life in specific situations. Key learning features include:

  • How to develop your self-awareness
  • How to develop your personal impact and presence
  • How to survive and thrive
  • How to get your message across
  • How to get the best out of others
  • How to work with and lead other professionals and patients
  • How to have courageous conversations
  • How to balance conflicting demands and needs

Containing exercises and reflective questions to help apply theory to leadership practice, How to be a Nurse or Midwife Leader is an ideal companion for all nurses and midwives, whether you are newly qualified, or stepping into a team leader role.

Helping Children Develop a Positive Relationship with Food: A Practical Guide for Early Years Professionals

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Author: Jo Cormack. Pages: 210 Size: 3.79 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 14 December, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781784504861

This practical guide enables those working with young children to better understand, manage and support children’s relationship with food. Revealing the different ways in which children can relate to food, it gives accessible guidance and advice about how to help children to develop psychologically healthy eating habits and behaviours, and how to tackle feeding issues such as picky eating, obesity and food anxiety. Included is an easy-to-use reference section for trouble-shooting, which contains advice on how special needs such as autism can affect children’s feelings about food.

Health Visiting: Preparation for Practice

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Author: Edited By Karen A Luker, Gretl A McHugh, Rosamund Bryar. Pages: 309 Size: 1.85 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 22 July, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781119078593

The fourth edition of this seminal text retains its focus on placing the health visitor at the forefront of supporting and working with children, families, individuals and communities. Health Visiting: Preparation for Practice has been fully revised and updated to reflect the changes and developments in health policy, public health priorities, and health visiting. It considers the public health role of the health visitor, and the important role and responsibilities the health visitor has with safeguarding children to ensure the child has the best possible start in life. Key features:

  • Fully updated throughout, with new content on practice and policy developments
  • Takes into account the challenges and changing role of the health visitor, and the need to ensure that their practice is evidenced-based
  • Includes an additional chapter on working in a multicultural society with a discussion on some of the challenges faced by health visitors
  • Discusses and debates the practice of public health and working with communities
  • Examines the role of the health visitor with safeguarding and child protection, as well as working within a multi-professional team
  • Features case studies and learning activities

Health Visiting: Preparation for Practice is essential reading for student health visitors, public health nurses, and those on community placements, as well as other health practitioners working with and in the community.

Health Promotion Programs: From Theory to Practice

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Author: Carl I. Fertman, Diane D. Allensworth, Editors. Pages: 499 Size: 3.19 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Jossey Bass Ltd
Published: 14 October, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781119163343

Comprehensive coverage, real-world issues, and a focus on the practical aspects of health promotion Health Promotion Programs combines theory and practice to deliver a comprehensive introduction to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs. Presenting an overview of best practices from schools, health care organizations, workplaces, and communities, this book offers clear, practical guidance with an emphasis on hands-on learning. This new second edition has been updated to include discussion on today`s important issues, including health equity, the Affordable Care Act, big data, E-health, funding, legislation, financing, and more. New coverage includes programs for underserved priority populations at a geographically-diverse variety of sites, and new practice and discussion questions promote engagement on highly-relevant topics. Public health is a critical aspect of any society, and health promotion programs play an important role. This book provides clear instruction, practical guidance, and multiple avenues to deeper investigation.

  • Plan health promotion programs from the basis of health theory
  • Gain in-depth insight on new issues and challenges in the field
  • Apply what your learning with hands-on activities
  • Access digital learning aids and helpful templates, models, and suggestions

Designed to promote engagement and emphasize action, this book stresses the importance of doing as a vital part of learning yet each step of the process is directly traceable to health theory, which provides a firm foundation to support a robust health promotion program. Health Promotion Programs is the essential introductory text for practical, real-world understanding.

Health Literacy Among Older Adults

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Author: Karen Kopera-Frye. Pages: 211 Size: 1.53 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 28 September, 2016
eISBN-13: 9780826194527

Low health literacy is a critical issue among adults, with over one-third found to have difficulty understanding such basic information as that found on prescription bottles. This is the first graduate textbook to address key health literacy issues as they affect the health and wellbeing of the ageing population. Embracing a topic spanning numerous disciplines, it features a dynamic, multiple contextual systems approach and includes contributions from renowned scholars and practitioners in gerontology, public health, social work, nursing, and other related fields. The text emphasises increasing health literacy among older adults through the use of technological tools and features the most current research, evidence-based programs, and practices. It provides expansive coverage of the intersection of technology and health literacy, highlighting innovative approaches and discussing how to use technology with resource-limited groups, and gives special consideration to rural, impoverished, culturally diverse, and low literacy elders and presents gold standard intervention programs and models. Also covered are the policy implications of programs focusing on increasing health literacy and future directions for meeting the Healthy People 2020 initiative. Case studies, review questions, accompanying PowerPoint lectures, learning objectives, will reinforce learning. Key Features:

  • Provides a one-of-a-kind, multidisciplinary survey of the key health literacy issues of older adults.
  • Focuses on increasing health literacy across the disciplines.
  • Addresses a priority area of Healthy People 2020.
  • Incorporates research and practice from gerontology, psychology, public health, social work, sociology, medicine, and nursing.
  • Includes case studies, review questions, learning objectives, and PowerPoint slides for assisting instructors.

Handbook of Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes

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Author: Rebecca White, Vicky Bradnam ; On Behalf Of The British Pharmaceutical Nutrition Group. Pages: 753 Size: 2.57 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Published: 13 March, 2015
eISBN-13: 9780857112217

The Handbook of Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes furnishes you with the background knowledge to inform clinical decision making as well as providing over 400 drug monographs.It provides an authoritative and practical guide to the safe administration of medicines via enteral feeding tubes.

Evidence-Based Treatment with Older Adults: Theory, Practice, and Research

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Pages: 291 Size: 2.42 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 21 April, 2017
eISBN-13: 9780190214630

Evidence Based Treatment with Older Adults: Theory, Practice, and Research provides a detailed examination of five research-supported psychosocial interventions for use with older adults: cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, life review/reminiscence, problem solving therapy, and psychoeducational/social support approaches. These interventions address the diversity of mental health conditions and late-life challenges that older adults and their family members experience. Detailed explanations of the approaches, skills, and strategies employed in each intervention are provided, as are adaptions for use of the interventions with older adults. Vignettes are also used to demonstrate the use of specific practice skills and techniques with older clients. The theory undergirding each approach and the historical development of the interventions is explained, and provides the reader with a rich understanding of background and context of each therapy. In addition, the distinct issues such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse/misuse for which evidence exists are highlighted. Research support for application of the interventions in community-based, acute care, and long-term care settings and in individual and group formats is also discussed. Finally, implementation issues encountered in therapeutic work with older adults are described as are accommodations to enhance treatment efficacy. In sum, this book provides a comprehensive overview of evidence based psychosocial interventions for older adults; it is ideal for students and mental health professionals interested in clinical work with older adults and their families.

Essential Practice for Healthcare Assistants

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Author: Edited By Angela Grainger. Pages: 257 Size: 2.4 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Andrews UK Ltd
Published: 09 May, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781856424912

This book is specifically aimed at healthcare assistants, and is a comprehensive text covering all aspects of care of the patient. It is written by healthcare assistants and cover the a wide range of topics:

  • Safety issues
  • Basic patient and residential care
  • Special care
  • Mental health
  • Learning disabilities
  • Paediatrics
  • Women and maternity
  • Men`s care
  • Caring for carers
  • Home health care
  • Lifting and moving patients
  • Death and dying.

Child Behavioral and Parenting Challenges for Advanced Practice Nurses: A Reference for Frontline Care Providers

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Author: Mary E. Muscari. Pages: 293 Size: 2.27 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 06 June, 2016
eISBN-13: 9780826120595

Delivers the most comprehensive information available for APNs on dealing with child behavioral and parenting challenge

Front-line nurse practitioners are increasingly required to assess, identify, manage, and refer the complex and often significant childhood behavioral challenges occurring among children and adolescents. This authoritative and comprehensive behavior management reference provides nursing health care providers and students with the evidence-based information and strategies they need to identify and appropriately intervene with such behavioral challenges and to assist parents in dealing appropriately and effectively with their child.

In an accessible and easy-to-read format, the text examines the primary health care professional’s role in screening behavioral issues, identifies a great variety of problems they are likely to encounter, and educates the provider on how to assess difficult and challenging behaviors. Each problem is consistently organized to include a description; assessment: diagnosis; levels of prevention/intervention; primary, secondary, and tertiary strategies for dealing with the behavior; and additional resources. Not only does the book provide a clear indication of when and how to refer the youth to the appropriate mental health professional or other specialist, but delineates strategies for what to do while awaiting referral and how to maintain a primary care role during the psychiatric intervention process. Important legal issues are addressed along with protocols that are accepted by health care and legal agencies. The text also provides an overview of the integration of behavioral health into primary care along with EBP guidelines and parent teaching guides.

Key Features:

  • Provides APNs with the basic foundations to understand, identify, and manage significant behavioral challenges of childhood
  • Examines the primary care health care professional’s role in working with these issues
  • Delivers evidence-based information and strategies for assessment and intervention
  • Provides clear indication of when and how to refer to appropriate mental health professional or other specialist
  • Addresses protocols to follow that are accepted by the health care and legal population

Childhood Obesity: Causes, Consequences and Intervention Approaches

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Author: Edited By Michael I. Goran. Pages: 525 Size: 7.05 MB Format: PDF Publisher: CRC Press Inc
Published: 14 October, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781315370958

Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States and continues to increase in prevalence in almost all countries in which it has been studied, including developed and developing countries around the globe. The causes of obesity are complex and multi-factorial. Childhood obesity becomes a life-long problem in most cases and is associated with long term chronic disease risk for a variety of diseases including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, as well as psychosocial as issues and obesity seems to affect almost every organ system in the body. In recent years there has been tremendous progress in the understanding of this problem and in strategies for prevention and treatment in the pediatric years. Childhood Obesity: Causes, Consequences, and Intervention Approaches presents current reviews on the complex problem of obesity from the multi-level causes throughout early life before adulthood and the implications for this for long-term disease risk. It reviews numerous types of strategies that have been used to address this issue from conventional clinical management to global policy strategies attempting to modify the global landscape of food, nutrition, and physical activity. Each chapter is written by a global authority in his or her respective field with a focus on reviewing the current status and recent developments. The book features information on contributing factors to obesity, including developmental origins, social/family, birth cohort studies, influence of ethnicity, and global perspectives. It takes a life-course approach to the subject matter and includes exhaustive treatment of contributing factors to childhood obesity, such as assessment, environmental factors, nutrition and dietary factors, host factors, interventions and treatment, consequences, and further action for future prevention. This broad range of topics relevant to the rapidly changing field of childhood obesity is suitable for students, health care professionals, physicians, and researchers.

Weight Matters for Children: A Complete Guide to Weight, Eating and Fitness

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Author: Rachel Pryke ; Forewords By Joe Harvey And Annabel Karmel. Pages: 227 Size: 65.23 MB Format: PDF Publisher: CRC Press Inc
Published: 06 July, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781138031357

This book is for everyone who would like to see healthy children enjoying great food and plenty of activity. A child’s build counts towards far more than physical appearance alone: self-confidence and personal pride, fitness and susceptibility to illness will all stem from a child’s diet. Eating and exercise habits that begin in childhood are likely to last for life and so getting the basics right is one of the best investments a child can have. Weight Matters for Children provides the best and most up-to-date evidence on understanding children’s choices and their motivation, plus a complete summary of childhood nutrition, from additives to vegetables. It ranges from putting a healthy diet into practice, binning barriers to exercise, tackling bullying and low self-esteem, right through to an A to Z of common conditions and illnesses that are related to diet or physical health.

Dacie and Lewis Practical Haematology

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Author: Barbara J. Bain Bain, Barbara J., Imelda Bates Bates, Imelda, Michael A. Laffan Laffan, Michael A., S. M. Lewis Lewis, S. M., John V. Dacie Dacie, John V. Pages: 599 Size: 21.15 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 11 August, 2016
eISBN-13: 9780702069253

For more than 65 years, this best-selling text by Drs. Barbara J. Bain, Imelda Bates, and Mike A. Laffan has been the worldwide standard in laboratory haematology. The 12th Edition of Dacie and Lewis Practical Haematology continues the tradition of excellence with thorough coverage of all of the techniques used in the investigation of patients with blood disorders, including the latest technologies as well as traditional manual methods of measurement. You’ll find expert discussions of the principles of each test, possible causes of error, and the interpretation and clinical significance of the findings.

  • A unique section on haematology in under-resourced laboratories.
  • Ideal as a laboratory reference or as a comprehensive exam study tool.
  • diagnosis, molecular testing, blood transfusion- and much more.
  • An expanded section on coagulation now covers testing for new anticoagulants and includes clinical applications of the tests.

Blood Results in Clinical Practice

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Author: Graham Basten Pages: 93 Size: 2.29 MB Format: PDF Publisher: M&K Update Ltd.
Published: 25 March, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781907830730

This book was written after feedback suggested that stories and analogies were very helpful to students wanting to remember blood tests and their implications. For this reason each section, where appropriate, contains an analogy, in addition to an overview of the relevant anatomy, physiology and biochemistry. The book links tests and conditions, and gives strategies for clinical practice using simple language. It will be useful as a supplementary text for those studying nursing, healthcare and medicine. It will also provide a quick-reference handbook for working healthcare professionals. Finally, it will provide a resource for patients and their relatives who may be keen to know more about the meaning and function of a particular blood test.

Nursing Research: Principles, Process and Issues, 3rd ed.

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Author: Kader Parahoo. Pages: 440 Size: 1.81 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Palgrave Higher Ed M.U.A.
Published: 30 May, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781137281272

Learning about research can be a daunting task. Kader Parahoo`s bestselling Nursing Research guides beginners gently but thoroughly, as well as presenting new debates and perspectives to those with some research experience. This latest edition includes three timely new chapters on qualitative methods, introducing grounded theory, phenomenology and ethnography. It integrates the discussion of evidence-based practice throughout, advises on systemic literature reviewing and clearly explains a wealth of methods and skills to support your understanding of research. An explanatory glossary at the end of the book complements Parahoo`s accessible writing style, ensuring all readers can get to grips with the knowledge needed to read, comprehend and critique research. This popular book offers a comprehensive introduction to important research concepts, processes and issues. It equips students with the information and skills they need to utilise research throughout study and in everyday practice.

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Occupational Safety and Workplace Health

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Author: Edited By Sharon Clarke, Tahira M. Probst, Frank.Guldenmund, And Jonathan Passmore. Pages: 563 Size: 7.7 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 23 September, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781118978993

A Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Psychology focusing on occupational safety and workplace health. The editors draw on their collective experience to present thematically structured material from leading thinkers and practitioners in the USA, Europe, and Asia Pacific Provides comprehensive coverage of the major contributions that psychology can make toward the improvement of workplace safety and employee health Equips those who need it most with cutting-edge research on key topics including wellbeing, safety culture, safety leadership, stress, bullying, workplace health promotion and proactivity

Writing for Publication in Nursing and Healthcare

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Author: Edited By Karen Holland, Roger Watson. Pages: 288 Size: 4.79 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 24 July, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781118302453

Writing for Publication in Nursing and Healthcare is an invaluable guide to ‘getting it right’, focusing on all aspects of writing for publication. It will help the reader to develop skills in writing articles, book reviews and other forms of publications, and can also be used as an aide-memoire for editors and journal or book reviewers. It explores: How to get started How to write various forms of publication including abstracts, papers, book reviews, journal articles and books Good practice in reviewing The editorial process Ethical and legal aspects of publishing Offering guidance, tips, examples and activities, this practical how-to book written by experts in the field is essential reading for all nurses and healthcare professionals.

Leadership and Nursing Care Management

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Author: Huber, Diane Pages: 546 Size: 9.53 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Saunders
Published: 26 July, 2017
eISBN-13: 9780323449021

Features the most up-to-date, evidence-based blend of practice and theory related to the issues that impact nursing management and leadership today. A fresh, conversational writing style provides you with an easy-to-understand, in-depth look at these prevalent issues. Key topics include the nursing professional’s role in law and ethics, staffing and scheduling, delegation, cultural considerations, care management, human resources, outcomes management, safe work environments, preventing employee injury, and time and stress management.

Leadership and Nursing: Contemporary Perspectives, 2nd ed.

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Author: John Daly, Sandra Speedy, Debra Jackson. Pages: 293 Size: 4.39 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Churchill Livingstone Australia
Published: 10 February, 2015
eISBN-13: 978072958153

Leadership and Nursing: Contemporary Perspectives 2e builds on the premise that nursing leadership is for all nurses — not just those who are authorised to hold a position within an organisation. In addition, this book explores how leadership is not possible until one has an understanding of self and what motivates others.

The text is aimed at senior undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students making the transition to practice as well as professional nurses seeking to strengthen their clinical practice and governance.

New chapters on:

  • Leadership and its influence on patient outcomes
  • Leadership and empowerment in nursing
  • Leadership and health policy
  • Developing and sustaining self
  • Interprofessional education (IPE): Learning together to practise collaboratively
  • Leadership and the role of professional organisations
  • Leading nursing in the Academy

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing (4 ed.)

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Author: Betty R. Ferrell, Nessa Coyle, and Judith Paice
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Print ISBN-13: 9780199332342
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199332342.001.0001

This landmark title is the key resource for nurses working in the field of palliative care. Edited by renowned nursing experts, and written by a dynamic team of internationally known authorities in nursing and palliative medicine, the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing covers the gamut of principles of care from the time of initial diagnosis of a terminal disease to the end of a patient’s life, and beyond. This online resource is written to highlight the nurse’s vital role as part of an integrated palliative care team. Various care settings are discussed including the hospital, ICU, home care, and hospice. Chapters focus on the practical aspects of nursing care, including symptom assessment, patient teaching, family support, psychosocial aspects of palliation, and spiritual care. New to this edition are chapters on the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Guidelines, and palliative care of veterans, in rural settings, in disaster situations, in Eastern Europe, and in the Philippines

Oxford Handbook of Women’s Health Nursing

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Author: Sunanda Gupta, Debra Holloway, and Ali Kubba
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Print ISBN-13: 9780199239627
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199239627.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Women’s Health Nursing is a concise and invaluable reference on women’s health for nurses and other health professionals working in primary care, community, health promotion or acute settings. It focuses on practical care pathways for common gynaecological conditions.

Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Nursing

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Author: Terry Robinson and Jane Scullion
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Print ISBN-13: 9780199226238
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199226238.001.1

The Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Nursing gives a systematic account of the main respiratory diseases in adults, covering assessment, diagnosis and nursing management. It highlights the multiple needs of respiratory patients – not only the physical requirements but also psychosocial needs, including palliative care and end of life issues.

Oxford Handbook of Renal Nursing

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Author: Althea Mahon, Karen Jenkins, and Lisa Burnapp
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Print ISBN-13: 9780199600533
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199600533.001.0001

An indispensable clinical guide, this resource provides a wealth of useful information on the aetiology of kidney disease, and aids with decision-making from initial assessment and diagnosis, through to the available treatments. Taking a multi-professional approach to the care and management of patients with kidney disease, the Oxford Handbook of Renal Nursing is an essential tool for all renal nurses, studying and practising, as well as a valuable resource for all those who work in renal care.

Oxford Handbook of Prescribing for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals (2 ed.)

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Author: Sue Beckwith and Penny Franklin
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Print ISBN-13: 9780199575817
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199575817.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Prescribing for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals, Second Edition gives concise, practical and expert advice on all aspects of non-medical prescribing, and has been completely revised and updated since the first edition. Containing the practical principles nurses and other non-medical prescribers need to practice safely, effectively and cost-consciously whatever the situation, it provides evidence-based advice on a wide selection of subjects to give a complete picture of the role of the prescriber. The topics covered range from basic pharmacology, to the legal aspects and processes of prescribing practice, as well as prescribing for specific conditions and special groups, such as the older person and the very young. It features the most recent legislation and changes to prescribing standards, giving nurses and non-medical prescribers access to the most up-to-date information to inform their practice. There is also additional content on complementary and alternative medicine, and guidelines on prescribing for cosmetic effect.

Oxford Handbook of Primary Care and Community Nursing (2 ed.)

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Author: Vari Drennan and Claire Goodman
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Print ISBN-13: 9780199653720
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199653720.001.0001

This resource is the essential guide to caring for patients in primary care and the community and covers the skills and knowledge required by any nurse working in modern primary and community care, which cuts across different speciality and care settings. Topics covered range from common adult health problems to vulnerable groups with extra needs, medicine management, and nurse prescribing. It includes information on how health and social care services are organised and funded, from common technical care procedures to complex situations requiring practical, concise guidance. The new edition includes revised and expanded material on end of life care, with more focus on care of dying children. It also includes new clinical topics such as nursing technology, dependent children at home, and frailty.

Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing (2 ed.)

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Author: Janet Peacock and Philip Peacock
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Print ISBN-13: 9780198703853
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780198703853.001.0001

Designed primarily for staff nurses and students this book will assist anyone working with people living with mental health problems, and their families and carers, including junior doctors, medical students, occupational therapists and social workers. The more experienced clinician will be able to use sections for reference and as a resource for key facts. The book is a reference guide that supports clinicians in everyday clinical decision-making and covers topics written by specialists in mental health nursing and related subjects that address the national mental health agenda in the UK.

Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing (2 ed.)

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Author: Bob Gates and Owen Barr
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Print ISBN-13: 9780198782872
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780198782872.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing, 2nd edition, has been comprehensively updated throughout and brings together the contributions of leading practitioners and academics from the UK, the Republic of Ireland, and further beyond, in an authoritative text that provides essential facts and information on nurses working with people with intellectual disabilities. A unique aspect to this Oxford Handbook is the continuing attention given to differences in legislation and social policy across the jurisdiction of the constituent countries of the UK, as well as the Republic of Ireland. The landscape for the practice of nursing has never been so complex, and given this complexity of context and practice, the Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing continues to offer students and newly qualified practitioners alike up-to-date and concise, practical applied knowledge, as well as theoretical information, about working in a person-centred way with people with intellectual disabilities and their families/carers in order to promote their physical and mental health, improve their quality of life and their active involvement in decisions about their care, and support their access to general healthcare and community services. This handbook will be of use in the very many areas where nurses for people with learning/intellectual disabilities are located. It will also be of use to a wider range of other health and/or social care professionals, who often seek an authoritative text that provides essential facts and information on working with people with intellectual disabilities.

Oxford Handbook of Musculoskeletal Nursing

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Author: Susan Oliver
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Print ISBN-13: 9780199238330
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199238330.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Musculoskeletal Nursing is a practical, informative and up-to-date quick reference guide for nurses and practitioners who require guidance on the care of patients with musculoskeletal conditions, either from an inpatient management or chronic disease management community care perspective.

Oxford Handbook of Nursing Older People

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Author: Beverley Tabernacle, Marie Honey, and Annette Jinks
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Print ISBN-13: 9780199213283
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199213283.001.0001

Concentrating on the knowledge and skills needed by nurses working with older people, this is an invaluable source of information for both student and practising nurses. Acting as both a reference guide and support in everyday clinical decision-making, it is written by experienced nurses and contains a wealth of guidance and information.

Oxford Handbook of Oncology (4 ed.)

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Author: Jim Cassidy, Donald Bissett, Roy A. J. Spence OBE, Miranda Payne, and Gareth Morris-Stiff
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Print ISBN-13: 9780199689842
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199689842.001.0001

Oxford Handbook of Oncology has been the essential go-to guide for students and practitioners in oncology for over a decade. The scientific basis and diagnosis of cancers is covered, as well as drugs, biomarkers, and the presentation and psychosocial aspects of oncology. Concise, practical, and comprehensive, there is no better companion for both common conditions and challenging emergencies. This handbook incorporates changes such as the understanding of the science of cancer, novel therapies in breast, lung, renal, and melanoma, molecular sub-classification of common solid cancers, personalized therapy approaches, new agents in hard to treat cancers, the benefits of new technologies in radiotherapy, and the emerging data on the importance of the immune response.

Oxford Handbook of Occupational Health (2 ed.)

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Author: Julia Smedley, Finlay Dick, and Steven Sadhra
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Print ISBN-13: 9780199651627
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199651627.001.0001

Fully revised for this second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Occupational Health is a concise practice-based guide that brings together the latest legislation and guidance with current practice in the field, and is the authoritative guide to assessing and managing health risks in the workplace.

Oxford Handbook of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing

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Author: Rebecca Jester, Julie Santy, and Jean Rogers
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Print ISBN-13: 9780199569809
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199569809.001.0001

Oxford Handbook of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing is a practical, comprehensive guide to all aspects of practice in the field. Taking into account the latest evidence, it is well-illustrated and written in a clear and concise style, providing both the qualified practitioner and the nursing student with the information they need.

Oxford Handbook of Gastrointestinal Nursing

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Author: Edited by Christine Norton, Annmarie Nunwa, Claire Taylor, Kathy Whayman, and Julia Williams
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Print ISBN-13: 9780199298655
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199298655.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Gastrointestinal Nursing is a comprehensive guide to the management of gastrointestinal patients. Content is organised in three sections: the principles of gastrointestinal nursing, the sections of the gut, and specific disorders of the digestive system – an indispensable tool for all gastrointestinal nurses

Oxford Handbook of Diabetes Nursing

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Author: Lorraine Avery and Sue Beckwith
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Print ISBN-13: 9780199545629
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199545629.001.1

The Oxford Handbook of Diabetes Nursing provides a comprehensive overview of diabetes care. It compiles evidence, information and guidance on the area making it an essential tool for practice nurses with a special interest in diabetes, as well as a useful resource for those working in community and acute settings.

Oxford Handbook of Emergency Nursing (2 ed.)

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Author: Robert Crouch, Alan Charters, Mary Dawood, and Paula Bennett
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Print ISBN-13: 9780199688869
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199688869.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Emergency Nursing is a comprehensive text for nursing and allied health professionals who are providing emergency and urgent care in a variety of settings. It is a quick reference text that can be consulted easily, whilst providing care for the whole range of adult and child presentations. Each chapter covers a distinct physiological system and its associated emergency presentations. Other chapters cover specific issues in the emergency care of patients, e.g. major trauma. A detailed skills chapter provides an overview of the many clinical skills required when caring for patients with acute illness or injuries.

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery (4 ed.)

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Author: Greg McLatchie, Neil Borley, and Joanna Chikwe
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Print ISBN-13: 9780199699476
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199699476.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery covers the assessment and preparation of the patient, anaesthesia and critical care, inflammation, wound healing and infection, and the key components of general surgical practice, as well as chapters on other surgical specialties, including plastic, paediatric, and orthopaedic surgery.

Oxford Handbook of Critical Care Nursing (2 ed.)

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Author: Heather Baid, Fiona Creed, and Jessica Hargreaves
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Print ISBN-13: 9780198701071
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780198701071.001.0001

Reflecting current best practice, the Oxford Handbook of Critical Care Nursing, Second Edition is a practical, concise, easily accessible, and evidence-based guide for all levels of nursing staff working in critical care environments. It aims to provide a quick, easy-to-follow overview of critical care nursing, and is not intended as a specialist text. Rather it provides both the novice and the experienced nurse at the bedside with the answers to day-to-day problems experienced when caring for critically ill patients, and is also a guide to some of the less commonly encountered issues. The second edition has been updated to reflect recent significant changes in the management of the critically ill adult. Current guidance from organizations such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the British Association of Critical Care Nurses (BACCN), and the Intensive Care Society (ICS) has been included. In addition to the updating of clinical guidance, an emphasis has now been placed on nursing management, and the book is designed to help to facilitate systematic nursing assessment of the critically ill adult. New chapters focusing on changes in the delivery of critical care, systematic assessment, and end-of-life care have also been added.

Oxford Handbook of Dental Nursing

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Author: Elizabeth Boon, Rebecca Parr, Dayananda Samarawickrama, and Kevin Seymour
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Print ISBN-13: 9780199235902
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199235902.001.0001

This resource serves as a practical, easily accessible, informative, and up-to-date quick reference guide that a dental nurse can use throughout their career, from the initial training stage to qualification and beyond. It enables users to find relevant information quickly, and will support dental nurses in their everyday work and provide easy access to information they may require in clinical sessions.

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Rehabilitation (2 ed.)

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Author: Kate Olson
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Print ISBN-13: 9780199550524
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199550524.001.0001

This is a comprehensive reference suitable for the whole rehabilitation team, that summarises the management of common symptoms and disorders, and also outlines the increasing evidence base for the efficacy of these techniques.

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Skills in Adult Nursing

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Author: Jacqueline Randle, Frank Coffey, and Martyn Bradbury
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Print ISBN-13: 9780199211043
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199211043.001.0001

This title provides a practical and evidence-based guide to the essential elements of clinical skills for nursing practice. Taking a systems-based approach to the care of patients, it is an invaluable guide to the majority of clinical scenarios, helping nurses and other health care workers to perform clinical skills safely and competently.

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Skills for Children’s and Young People’s Nursing

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Author: Paula Dawson, Louise Cook, Laura-Jane Holliday, and Helen Reddy
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Print ISBN-13: 9780199593460
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199593460.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Skills for Children’s and Young People’s Nursing provides a concise, current, and evidence-based practical guide to all clinical skills relating to the care of children and young people.

Oxford Handbook of Children’s and Young People’s Nursing (2 ed.)

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Author: Edward Alan Glasper, Gillian McEwing, and Jim Richardson
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Print ISBN-13: 9780199641482
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199641482.001.0001

Children’s and young people’s nursing requires special skills and a unique perspective. The Oxford Handbook of Children’s and Young People’s Nursing gives concise, practical, and expert advice on all aspects of the nurse’s role. Written for both practising and student nurses, it is a comprehensive and reliable guide to the care of children and young people in a family context. The second edition includes the most up-to-date legislation, policy, and practice including the latest NICE guidelines on child healthcare.

Oxford Handbook of Cardiac Nursing (2 ed.)

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Author: Kate Olson
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Print ISBN-13: 9780199651344
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199651344.001.0001

This new edition of the Oxford Handbook of Cardiac Nursing includes expanded information on prevention of cardiovascular disease and heart disease in pregnancy, as well as the latest resuscitation guidelines, protocols, and clinical information. It covers assessment, investigation, treatment, rehabilitation, and pharmacological interventions, and new illustrations and diagrams have been added throughout to aid clarity of information. Although a large part of it focuses on caring for patients with coronary heart disease, many other cardiovascular problems, such as valvular heart disease, congenital heart disease, and cardiomyopathies are covered. Designed to be used on the ward, in the community, and for studying and revision, it contains expert guidance, written by experienced nurses and teachers. This resource is specifically laid out to enable quick access to precise, targeted information, and covers the vast majority of clinical scenarios.

Oxford Handbook of Cancer Nursing

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Author: Mike Tadman and Dave Roberts
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Print ISBN-13: 9780198569244
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780198569244.001.0001

Taking a systematic approach to the main areas of cancer nursing practice, the Oxford Handbook of Cancer Nursing covers all aspects of cancer care. It guides the user from pre-diagnosis, through treatment, to issues of advanced disease and palliative care. It includes cancer biology, genetics and treatments, as well as new targeted and complementary therapies.

Oxford Handbook of Adult Nursing, 2nd ed.

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Author: Maria Flynn and Dave Mercer
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Print ISBN-13: 9780198743477
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780198743477.001.0001

The second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Adult Nursing addresses the philosophy, principles, and practice of general adult nursing, and the ways in which general adult nurses relate to people, engage critically with professional knowledge, and organize appropriate nursing care and interventions. The content provides information to help general nurses to draw on their personal and professional values, knowledge, and experience when making general practice decisions and organizing care. The handbook is designed to be a broad reference source, focused on the types of conditions that general adult nurses are most likely to come across in their everyday work, whether this is in hospital, hospice, or community locations. The handbook is arranged in four sections, each of which presents key facts related to professional nursing values, communication and interpersonal skills, nursing practice and decision-making, and leadership, management, and teamwork. Details of clinical procedures are not included, as these are expertly addressed in the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Skills in Adult Nursing. Part 1—Professional nursing values (Chapters 1–4)—outlines the values and statutory responsibilities underpinning all nursing practice, decision-making, and patient care. Part 2—Communication and interpersonal skills (Chapters 5–11)—discusses key features of empathetic communication in different nursing contexts. Part 3—Nursing practice and decision-making (Chapters 12–26)—provides key facts about health conditions in different body systems, along with potential investigations and treatment approaches. These chapters also highlight related nursing considerations, to stimulate and support thinking and decision-making in practice. Part 4—Nursing leadership, teamwork, and collectives (Chapters 27–31)—focuses on leadership, management, and teamwork, and the way nurses interact with each other, patients, and the public. Each chapter also lists useful sources of further information. The majority of these are online resources, in recognition of the way most people use information and communication technology in everyday nursing practice, education, and research. Other texts in the Oxford nursing handbook series provide a wide range of specialist texts to cover the detail of more specialized aspects of nursing practice, and reference to these are included throughout the text

Emergencies in Mental Health Nursing

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Author: Patrick Callaghan
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Print ISBN-13: 9780199561414
DOI:  10.1093/med/9780199561414.001.0001

This resource provides a practical, accessible guide for mental health nurses confronted with emergencies so as to enable them to manage these emergencies in a therapeutic, safe and legally proper manner. As with all emergencies, the immediate care of patients with mental health problems must be simple and quick, and so this resource comprises easy to read bulletted short notes with an emphasis on establishing the diagnosis while maintaining a high index of suspicion.

Emergencies in Children’s and Young People’s Nursing

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Author: E. A Glasper, Gill McEwing, and Jim Richardson
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Print ISBN-13: 9780199547197
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199547197.001.0001

Emergencies in Children’s and Young People’s Nursing is a one-stop quick reference for children’s and young people’s nurses providing emergency care in the acute hospital setting.

Emergencies in Adult Nursing

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Author: Philip Downing
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Print ISBN-13: 9780199226573
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199226573.001.0001

This guide enables nurses to identify which clinical problems are true emergencies, which require urgent attention and those that can wait – differential diagnoses for each clinical presentation are identified, along with the actions required to ensure effective treatment is provided.

Fundamentals of Care: A Textbook for Health and Social Care Assistants

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Author: Ian Peate.
Pages: 283 Size: 4.59 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 23 February, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781119212218

Fundamentals of Care is an accessible introductory textbook for all health care assistants; assistant practitioners and social care support workers who are undertaking the newly introduced, mandatory Care Certificate, as well as offering a resource for providing care and support.

Practically focused, each chapter begins with the outcomes associated with each standard, which helps contextualise and focus the reader on the content and relevance to the Care Certificate. The book also includes exercises to encourage the reader to stop, look, listen and act, thinking cap activity promotes further thinking and application to care and support provision along with case studies and resource files.

Written to help the reader come to terms with the role and function of the heath and care assistants, Fundamentals of Care offers support to those undertaking the Care Certificate.

Clinical Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners

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Author: Angela Whelan And Elaine Hughes.
Pages: 365 Size: 2.91 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 28 April, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781118441992

Clinical Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners is an accessible, easy-to-read guide, outlining the fundamental and core skills integral to clinical practice. Fully updated in its second edition, this book is divided into three sections; the first looks at fundamental skills applicable to all staff, such as accountability, communication and record keeping. Section two explores core clinical skills such as respiratory care, pulse, blood glucose management and catheter care. Section three outlines complex clinical skills that require more in-depth training, such as medication and intravenous cannulation. An invaluable resource for healthcare assistants and assistant practitioners, this book will also be of use to newly qualified practitioners, and students in health and social care.

A Manual of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for Nurses

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Author: Edited By Colin Yates.
Pages: 306 Size: 18.78 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 04 March, 2008
eISBN-13: 9780470698372

Nurses working within the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery play an important role and need a sound awareness of the various aspects of nursing care involved. By drawing on practical examples, “A Manual of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for Nurses” will provide nurses with a deeper and more informed understanding of procedures and surgical techniques, and overall care of the patient in the specialty. The majority of conditions and procedures which would be seen in most units are described in terms of relevant anatomy and pathology as well as operative details, with due emphasis on pre- and post-operative nursing care and patient information.It provides comprehensive coverage of nursing care in the specialty. It features nurse contributors for out-patient, operating theatre and ward care. It provides detailed pre- and post-operative nursing care. Practical examples of patient information are provided throughout the book. This book will be of interest to nurses in the specialty working in the out-patient department, on the ward and in the operating theatre. Dental surgery assistants working in specialist dental practice will also find it a useful resource, as will dental students, operating department assistants and maxillofacial technicians.

Manual of Perioperative Care: An essential guide

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Author: Edited By Kate Woodhead And Lesley Fudge.
Pages: 345 Size: 56.84 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 20 July, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781118302194

Manual of Perioperative Care is a comprehensive manual of principles of care designed to support the clinical practice of perioperative practitioners, whether they are nurses or operating department practitioners. This book sets out to meet the needs of those studying perioperative practice as well as those who would like an up to date comprehensive reference on their bookshelf. It covers the fundamentals involved in perioperative practice, setting modern surgical care into its complete environment and context. With a practical, accessible focus, aided by full colour illustrations, this book follows the journey that the patient makes through their surgical care, with sections on: The foundation for safe and effective perioperative care Infection prevention and control Patient safety and managing risks Different patient care groups Approaches to surgery This book will be essential reading for all students on perioperative courses, and newly qualified perioperative nurses and operating department practitioners.

Lower Extremity Wounds

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Author: Edited By Karen Ousey And Caroline McIntosh.
Pages: 312 Size: 4.01 MB Format: PDF Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Published: 07 December, 2007
eISBN-13: 9780470697900

Lower limb wounds are frequently observed in clinical practice and often present a real challenge for health care practitioners. Lower extremity wound care requires a multidisciplinary approach involving a number of different health care professionals in order to achieve optimum patient care. Nurses and podiatrists, in particular, are frequently involved in the assessment and management of lower extremity wounds, often working in partnership. Lower Extremity Wounds: A problem-based learning approach is the first wound care book that has been written as a joint venture by experienced nurses and podiatrists, all with expert knowledge in wound care. It highlights the importance of multi-professional collaboration to encourage the crossing and dismantling of professional boundaries, to increase understanding of each other`s roles, and ultimately to ensure that the patient receives the best available evidence-based interventions during their health care journey. Taking a problem-based learning approach, each of the ten chapters highlights best practice in the management of wounds by type, discusses clinical guidelines and current evidence, and links this theory to a clinical scenario thus bridging the theory to practice gap. Numerous full-colour illustrations are used throughout the book to visually enhance the reader`s learning. Aimed at both students and practitioners, this book is essential reading for anyone involved in lower extremity wound care.

Legal Aspects of Nursing

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Author: Bridgit Dimond.
Pages: 865 Size: 6.55 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Pearson Education M.U.A.
Published: 31 March, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781292001852

Now in its seventh edition, Bridgit Dimond`s Legal Aspects of Nursing is the definitive guide to the essential law that nurses and healthcare professionals need to know. Written in an engaging style, the book shows the application of the law to everyday nursing situations showing the relevance and importance of legal considerations to nursing practice. The book covers the legal system and legal issues relating to medicine in general, before examining more specific areas, such as children and the elderly.

A Nurse’s Survival Guide to the Ward

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Author: Ann Richards, Sharon Edwards.
Pages: 501 Size: 9.19 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Published: 24 July, 2012
eISBN-13: 9780702051715

The new edition of this highly popular book is an indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems for nurses starting work on the ward or returning to practice. It provides guidance in a variety of areas including: how to organise your job and yourself; how to assess patients; clinical information on a wide range of conditions; important principles, procedures and investigations; how to administer drugs safely; and, what to do in an emergency. As well as information on how to do the job, the importance of communication and nursing care issues is emphasised. Background information is also given on underlying legal, health and safety issues.

Nursing Care of the Hospitalized Older Patient

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Author: Edited By Terry Mahan Buttaro And Kate A. Barba.
Pages: 578 Size: 4.89 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 05 September, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781118292846

Nursing Care for the Hospitalized Older Patient is a comprehensive, quick-reference resource for registered and advanced practice nurses working with older patients in a hospital setting. Organized in user-friendly format, the book provides vital information on all aspects of hospital care and the full range of health issues encountered by elderly patients. The book is organized into four major sections. The first section provides an overview of the aging patient, including demographics, normal aging changes, and the general impact of hospitalization. The second section covers proper health assessment, providing guidance on history taking and evaluating laboratory values. The third section is the largest part of the book and is made up of short, similarly-structured chapters dedicated to individual clinical issues ranging from burns to depression. These chapters are organized by body system to maximize ease of use. The book concludes with a section on special considerations that cross common clinical areas, such as palliative care, pain management, fall prevention, and discharge planning.

Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: an evidence-based guide to planning care

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Author: Betty J. Ackley, Gail B. Ladwig.
Pages: 963 Size: 14.48 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Mosby
Published: 20 January, 2013
eISBN-13: 9780323089227

Use this convenient resource to formulate nursing diagnoses and create individualized care plans! Updated with the most recent NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 9th Edition shows you how to build customized care plans using a three-step process: assess, diagnose, and plan care. It includes suggested nursing diagnoses for over 1,300 client symptoms, medical and psychiatric diagnoses, diagnostic procedures, surgical interventions, and clinical states. Authors Elizabeth Ackley and Gail Ladwig use Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) information to guide you in creating care plans that include desired outcomes, interventions, patient teaching, and evidence-based rationales.

Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing: an evidence-based approach to musculoskeletal care

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Author: Edited By Sonya Clarke And Julie Santy-Tomlinson.
Pages: 362 Size: 4.47 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 11 July, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781118438831

Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing provides practitioners working in orthopaedic and musculoskeletal trauma settings with the essential evidence, guidance and knowledge required to underpin effective practice. This comprehensive and contemporary textbook explores the variety of adult and paediatric clinical settings where orthopaedic and trauma practitioners work, including acute wards, clinics, community hospitals, nursing homes and patients` homes. Divided into 5 sections, this book looks at: key issues in orthopaedic and musculoskeletal trauma care; specialist practice issues; common orthopaedic conditions and their care and management; musculoskeletal trauma care; and care of children and young people. Suitable for students at degree level as well as those clinicians practicing in more advanced orthopaedic and trauma care roles, Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing is a foremost authority on orthopaedic and musculoskeletal practice for both students and practitioners. Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing : Is strongly supported by the latest evidence, with chapters summarizing evidence, with reference to relevant and seminal research Offers practical guidance based on the relevant evidence Focuses on the perspective of the patient with patient narrative and case studies throughout Includes a section specifically dealing with children and young people

Law and professional issues in nursing

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Author: Richard Griffith And Cassam Tengnah.
Pages: 232 Size: 953 KB Format: PDF Publisher: Learning Matters Ltd.
Published: 22 August, 2008
eISBN-13: 9781844456048

This is an essential resource for student nurses as they begin to develop their knowledge and understanding of the requirements for safe practice in healthcare. Nurses are more accountable than ever to the public, patients, their employers and the profession and it is vital that they have a clear understanding of the legal, ethical and professional dilemmas they will face in the course of their professional career. The book contains activities and case studies throughout the text to illustrate key principles and demonstrate how the law is applied in the context of nursing care.

Initial Management of Acute Medical Patients: A guide for nurses and healthcare practitioners

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Author: Edited By Ian Wood, Michelle Garner.
Pages: 322 Size: 6.32 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 17 January, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781444361278

Initial Management of Acute Medical Patients is a clinically focused, practical and contemporary guide for assessing and managing patients with acute medical conditions. Suitable for all nurses and healthcare practitioners in medical assessment units and medical wards, as well as A&E staff, it uses a structured approach based on common presenting features and focuses on the first 24 hours of the patient`s hospital stay. It draws on a wide range of supporting evidence and also provides sources for further reading.

Key features:

  • Written predominantly by nurses for nurses, this text is also suitable for a range of healthcare professionals, including paramedics and nurse practitioners, and anybody working in an acute care environment, including primary care assessment units, clinical decision units and intermediate care
  • Designed as a quick reference text for use in clinical practice
  • Extensively referenced throughout, thus increasing its appeal to practitioners at all stages of their careers and to those who are undertaking further study
  • Devotes two entire chapters to assessing and meeting the acute care needs of vulnerable adults (i.e. older adults, those with mental health needs, and those with learning disabilities), and discussing best practice in dealing with sudden death
  • Each chapter offers clear, concise and down-to-earth information based on a common presenting symptom and provides practical advice, supported by best evidence and the most up to date clinical guidelines
  • Fully updated and extensively expanded to include recent guidelines and procedures

How to Pass Your OSCE: A guide to success in nursing and midwifery

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Author: Jacqueline Bloomfield, Anne Pegram, Carys Jones.
Pages: 133 Size: 2.41 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge Ltd
Published: 01 May, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781315847153

The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) was developed for all undergraduate nursing programmes, with the aim of emphasising the need for nursing students to be competent in clinical skills, to assess clinical reasoning skills and as a means of standardizing the assessment process. This practical, easy to read and interactive study guide helps nursing and midwifery students at all levels to maximise their chances of success with OSCEs. It features case studies, quick quizzes, recap and recall summaries and an OSCE preparation plan; all of which help to prepare the student for the examination. Hints and tips on what to expect during the examination and pointers on what the examiner will be looking for, together with a comprehensive chapter on personal learning will help to guide the student through the process and maximise their chances of success!”

Leadership and Nursing Care Management

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Author: [edited By] Diane L. Huber.
Pages: 937 Size: 7.96 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Saunders
Published: 07 August, 2013
eISBN-13: 9780323266895

Comprehensive and easy to read, this authoritative resource features the most up-to-date, research-based blend of practice and theory related to the issues that impact nursing management and leadership today. Key topics include the nursing professional’s role in law and ethics, staffing and scheduling, delegation, cultural considerations, care management, human resources, outcomes management, safe work environments, preventing employee injury, and time and stress management.

A Nurse’s Survival Guide to Mentoring

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Author: Karen Elcock, Kath Sharples.
Pages: 321 Size: 2.1 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Published: 01 February, 2011
eISBN-13: 9780702047725

Are you mentoring students? This is an indispensable handbook for: both new and experienced mentors seeking practical advice; academic staff who deliver mentorship programmes; and, link lecturers who support mentors in practice.

The Nurse Mentor’s Handbook: Supporting Students In Clinical Practice

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Author: Danny Walsh.
Pages: 257 Size: 16.26 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 September, 2014
eISBN-13: 9780335263196

This popular and manageable mentoring book gives you strategies and ideas to help devise and enhance learning opportunities for students.  It includes sections on the context of mentorship, developing skills of teaching and assessing and it concludes with tips on maintaining skills once qualified. It is in turn likely to be useful for both novice and experienced mentors.

The Nurse Mentor And Reviewer Update Book

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Cyril Murray, Lyn Rosen And Karen Staniland.
Pages: 169 Size: 4.9 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 June, 2010
eISBN-13: 9780335241217

This book is the ideal resource for anyone working as a nurse mentor. Using case studies and examples based on the specific Nursing and Midwifery Standards (NMC 2008) the book supports qualified mentors towards meeting the evidence requirements of an annual mandatory update. A range of activities are included that can be worked through individually by a mentor or with peers. These will help to provide a range of different sources of evidence at appraisal interviews, to demonstrate a mentor`s ongoing competence. This practical and flexible guide explains the meaning of competence and is designed to help mentors judge competence in line with Nursing and Midwifery Council standards and the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework. Appraisers/reviewers will also find this book useful, as it outlines the organisational and individual obligations in promoting and recording the ongoing competence of mentors. This book is the ideal resource for anyone working as a nurse mentor. Using case studies and examples based on the specific Nursing and Midwifery Standards (NMC 2008) the book supports qualified mentors towards meeting the evidence requirements of an annual mandatory update. A range of activities are included that can be worked through individually by a mentor or with peers. These will help to provide a range of different sources of evidence at appraisal interviews, to demonstrate a mentor`s ongoing competence. This practical and flexible guide explains the meaning of competence and is designed to help mentors judge competence in line with Nursing and Midwifery Council standards and the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework. Appraisers/reviewers will also find this book useful, as it outlines the organisational and individual obligations in promoting and recording the ongoing competence of mentors.

Mentorship in Healthcare

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Author: Mary E. Shaw, John Fulton
Pages: 104 Size: 1.8 MB Format: PDF Publisher: M&K Update Ltd.
Published: 17 December, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781907830709

In healthcare settings, the term ‘mentorship’ is normally used to describe the supervision of a pre-registration student by a qualified practitioner. Mentorship can be very formal or relatively informal. It can also be practised differently in particular locations, settings and healthcare professions. This clear, concise book transcends professional and geographical boundaries in order to focus on the essential characteristics of effective mentorship. It will therefore be useful to a very wide range of healthcare professionals who are involved in mentoring and assessing junior colleagues. The book examines learning theories, teaching and communication skills and assessment methods. It also contains helpful advice on dealing with overseas students and students with special needs. Activities, reflection, quotes and tables enable readers to absorb the content and relate theory to practice.

Mentorship and Clinical Supervision Skills in Health Care

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Author: Lynne Wigens And Rachel Heathershaw.
Pages: 284 Size: 7.32 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Cengage Learning – M.U.A
Published: 22 April, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781408098998

This fully revised and highly accessible second edition of Mentorship and Clinical Supervision Skills in Health Care: Learning Through Practice, from the Nursing and Health Care Practice series, provides all the background, theory and practical knowledge required to be an effective mentor within nursing and health care. The text explores mentorship from the stance of a student and from that of a qualified health care professional, to encourage critical understanding and securing its appeal to professionals and trainees in the field. Completely up-to-date, this text is written in line with the new NMC requirements and provides coverage of key developments in the field including: the role of technologies and e-portfolios in nursing and health care education; the growing importance of experiential learning and the role of reflection; recent changes in assessment techniques and the conceptualisation of validity, reliability and discriminatory power.

Mentoring, Learning and Assessment in Clinical Practice

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Author: Ci Ci Stuart
Pages: 234 Size: 8.67 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Published: 10 July, 2013
eISBN-13: 9780702047039

This is a `how to do it`, practice-centred book, providing workable educational strategies to assist busy practitioners supervise and support the learning and assessment of learners during clinical placements, to achieve valid and reliable assessments. All strategies are underpinned by a solid theoretical and evidence base. The complexity and challenges of mentoring, learning and assessing in the clinical setting are specifically addressed.

The Research Process in Nursing

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Author: Edited By Kate Gerrish, Judith Lathlean.
Pages: 628 Size: 3.43 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 29 January, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781118522561

Comprehensive and thorough in scope, The Research Process in Nursing 7th edition provides everything you could want to know about research methods. This established textbook reflects the significant advances in nursing research and the importance of evidence-based practice, and provides an invaluable resource for both the novice and the more experienced researcher. It includes practical information and advice on:

  1. How to find and critique the evidence
  2. How to choose the right approach
  3. How to collect data
  4. How to make sense of the data
  5. How to put research into practice

Special features:

  1. A clear, explicit and easy to understand text which links theory with practical steps in the research process.
  2. Examples provided allow the reader to apply a variety of research concepts to theoretical learning and professional practice.

Incorporates chapters, research examples, and policy from a range of international countries, including Canada, Australia, USA and Hong Kong. * Provides detailed discussions around each example, which clearly link theory with practice * Easy to read for novice researchers and undergraduate nursing students, but at the same time provides sufficient depth and detail to be of value to experienced researchers and practitioners.

Reflective Practice in Nursing

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Author: Edited By Chris Bulman, Sue Schutz.
Pages: 274 Size: 2.21 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 10 January, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781118307762

From reviews of previous editions: `This excellent book provides useful guidance on the use of reflection in practice…a helpful addition to any nursing library.` Primary Health Care `…an excellent investment in any nurses` library portfolio.` Journal of Advanced Nursing `An extremely welcome addition to nursing`s literature on thoughtful, knowledgeable practice.` Nursing Times `This is an excellent practical guide to reflective practice…I would highly recommend this book to all practice teachers and students.` Journal of Practice Nursing The ability to reflect on practice has become a competency demanded of every healthcare professional in recent years. It can be a daunting prospect- but this practical and accessible text guides the way, using the latest research and evidence to support the development of skills in reflective practice and provides help and advice on how to get started, how to write reflectively and how to continue to use reflective practice in everyday situations. This fifth edition of Reflective Practice in Nursing is an indispensable guide for students and practitioners alike who wish to learn more about reflective practice, as well as containing essential information for teachers and lecturers.

Reflective Practice For Healthcare Professionals

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Author: Beverley Joan Taylor.
Pages: 242 Size: 7.6 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 May, 2010
eISBN-13: 9780335238361

Taylor reveals how reflection and contemplation creatively welds the everyday working day world to a myriad of cultural, ethical, moral and managerial challenges. This book offers the beginning practitioner a broad understanding of why conscious awareness of one`s thinking matters. Taylor`s insight reveals her deep thoughtfulness as a meticulous researcher, supervisor and mentor and her guidelines will ground you in shaping your own development as a researcher in practice”. (Dr Margaret Martin, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand). “Reflection, as a process of critical self-evaluation, continues to grow and be recognised as a successful, approach to improving, changing and managing healthcare practice. This latest text by Taylor is a welcome addition to the increasing body of knowledge on the subject. She writes, as always, with exceptional clarity and manages to combine practical guidance with experiential insights and theoretical frameworks. Highlighting the importance of ordinary human communication for all healthcare professionals, Taylor`s text and presence is anything but ordinary”. (Professor Dawn Freshwater, University of Leeds, UK). “This book is about more than reflection, it is about a philosophy of nursing that Taylor has espoused throughout her career, and it makes a connection with the reader in a way that many books do not. This is a must-have book for all who wish to move their practice forwards”. (Joanne Pike, Senior Lecturer, NEWI, North Wales). This popular book provides practical guidance for healthcare professionals wishing to reflect on their work and improve the way they undertake clinical procedures, interact with other people at work and deal with power issues. The new edition has been broadened in focus from nurses and midwives exclusively, to include all healthcare professionals. Practice stories by a variety of healthcare professionals are interweaved throughout the book to illustrate reflective practice and `author`s reflections` boxes are used to illustrate the author`s experience of reflective practice. The book contains a clear and comprehensive description of: the fundamentals of reflective practice and how and why it is embraced in healthcare professions; strategies for effective reflection; systematic approaches to technical, practical and emancipatory reflection; and, a step-by-step guide to applying the Taylor REFLECT model. This edition also introduces the concept of `ordinariness` in health care, which used consciously with the reflective practice processes in this book should increase the likelihood that patients receiving healthcare will feel acknowledged, heard and comforted as intelligent human beings.

Reflection for Nursing Life: Principles, process and practice

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Author: John McKinnon.
Pages: 151 Size: 1.68 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge Ltd
Published: 29 January, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781315766324

Over the past decades, reflection has taken centre stage in nursing education but it is easy to get stuck in a superficial cycle of storytelling and self-examination, without getting any further insights into your own practice and abilities. Reflection for Nursing Life starts with a basic introduction to reflective practice and moves through to look at more critical perspectives, with guidance for reflecting on the complex realities of practice. This accessible text is designed to support a deeper understanding of the value of reflection and its relationship with the needs of modern practice. Beginning with discussions of self-awareness and the reflective cycle, it goes on to explore ideas about critical incidents, critical reflection models and transformational learning. It integrates cutting-edge neuro-scientific research and thinking about emotional labour and intelligence in healthcare into mainstream reflective practice, drawing on both new and established ways of guiding learning and professional judgment. Reflection for Nursing Life includes numerous exemplar reflective narratives, diagrams and exercises to help the reader identify their strengths and weaknesses, whilst tips for overcoming weaknesses and developing strengths are also provided. It is the ideal text for nursing students and practitioners looking to improve their reflective practice skills.

Project Management for the Advanced Practice Nurse

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Author: Carolyn Sipes
Pages: 149 Size: 1.47 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 30 November, 2015
eISBN-13: 9780826128188

Project Management for the Advanced Practice Nurse will be the first resource to provide the basics project management for graduate-level nurses and students, with practical examples and tips. The core of this need is that APNs are integrally involved in improving systems and care, and implementing change in complex medical systems. This requires a fundamental knowledge of project management, with guidance on how to use these skills to introduce true, lasting change. The text will cover the skills and tools needed to better function in the management of a complex work environment. The concepts, tools, processes and terminology in this text will be designed to be comprehensive in that the explanation of terms used will also be defined in in ways they will be encountered in the business world of project management.

Procedures in Phlebotomy

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Author: By John C. Flynn.
Pages: 250 Size: 6.46 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Saunders
Published: 19 October, 2011
eISBN-13: 9781455709625

Introducing the practices and procedures of phlebotomy, “Procedures in Phlebotomy, 4th Edition” provides easy-to-read guidelines for both basic and special phlebotomy techniques. It describes proper procedures for venipuncture, special collection procedures, and pediatric and geriatric considerations, and addresses essential topics such as infection control, OSHA guidelines, and anatomy and physiology. It also discusses professional issues such as interpersonal communication, department management, total quality, and medical-legal topics. Written by expert phlebotomy educator John C. Flynn, Jr., this edition includes more in-depth content, a new chapter on medical terminology, new case studies, and a practice exam that prepares you for the phlebotomy certification exam.

Haematology Nursing

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Author: [edited By] Marvelle Brown, Tracey J. Cutler.
Pages: 337 Size: 14.73 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 15 February, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781118276112

Haematology Nursing is a comprehensive handbook, with a nursing focus, on the care and management of patients with haematological disorders. Divided into four sections, the first provides an introduction to haematology, looking at haemopoiesis, immunology and genetics. Section two covers non-malignant haematology, including anaemia, haemoglobinopathies and haemochromatosis. Section three explores the pathophysiology, care and management of Myeloproliferative and Lymphoproliferative Disorders, including leukaemia, myeloma, and lymphoma. The final section provides information on various nursing care interventions, including blood transfusion, venous access devices, and palliative care. Aimed principally at nurses working in a variety of settings including haematology/oncology wards, medical/haematology wards, specialist bone marrow transplant centres, and community settings, Haematology Nursing is an essential, and much needed reference guide.

Timely Discharge from Hospital

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Author: Liz Lees
Pages: 433 Size: 8.42 MB Format: PDF Publisher: M&K Update Ltd.
Published: 01 May, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781907830556

Following on from the very popular first book ‘Nurse Facilitated Hospital Discharge’ ‘In these challenging economic times, with change and cost saving being predominant features in the NHS, I offer you, the reader, a thought: “The faster the speed at which you travel, the further ahead you need to look”, to adapt current practice, and align it to future needs, to deliver value for money.’ Liz Lees Timely Discharge From Hospital is aimed at practitioners working in acute, community, intermediate and ambulatory care settings; all areas of practice are featured. Each section is arranged in themes but written to stand alone, allowing the reader to dip in and out. The book is further enhanced by a comprehensive selection of case studies. Part 1: Fundamental perspectives of practice – there are 3 leading chapters which set the scene for the discharge of patients from hospital. Part 2: The UK perspective – there are 4 chapters which demonstrate policy, practice and progress regarding discharge planning in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Part 3: Education and training – there are 3 chapters which interface theory with practice providing a sense of direction in education to lead and support practitioners wishing to develop mechanisms for training. Part 4: Multi professional considerations of patient discharge in practice – there are 7 chapters which explore the contribution of different professionals to timely discharge practice. The Nursing coordination complex discharge issues, Pharmacy, PALs, Medicine, Occupational Therapy and Bed management are all featured. Part 5: Case examples in practice – There are 14 pragmatic cases which illuminate practice points from a clinical perspective.

Supporting Families and Carers: A Nursing Perspective

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Author: Mary E. Braine, Julie Wray.
Pages: 202 Size: 3.21 MB Format: PDF Publisher: CRC Press Inc – M.U.A.
Published: 30 March, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781498706728

Understanding the perspective of carers is an essential aspect of nursing. Supporting Families and Carers: A Nursing Perspective offers insights into the fundamental principles of caring for families and carers irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality or religion. This book discusses the concepts and theories that underpin our understanding of the behaviours and feelings that families and caregivers may experience. While the book covers theoretical dimensions to understand the caregiving experience, it also provides practical perspectives for nursing and is a unique resource to inform nursing practice and learning at all levels. The book covers topics such as the stress process, stressors and how they relate to caregiving as well as actions and resources to help alter stressful situations. Interventions discussed include training and education programs, problem-solving skills, information technology-based support and formal approaches to planning care that take into account the specific needs of carers. Carers are a central aspect of contemporary health services, and working with carers is fundamental to the delivery of high-quality person- and family-centred nursing care. This invaluable resource helps nurses to work effectively in partnership with patients and their carers.

Study Guide for Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice

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Author: Susan K. Grove, Jennifer R. Gray,And Nancy Burns.
Pages: 217 Size: 3.32 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Saunders
Published: 05 November, 2014
eISBN-13: 9780323293303

Review nursing research concepts and learn to apply them for evidence-based practice! With learning activities in each chapter, this study guide reinforces the content covered in Understanding Nursing Research, 5th Edition by Nancy Burns and Susan K. Grove. This edition includes an expanded focus on evidence-based practice and new case studies to help you understand the research process and apply your findings to the clinical setting. Three published research studies provide an opportunity to practice with the appraisal and application of nursing research.

Statistics and Data Analysis for Nursing Research

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Author: Denise F. Polit.
Pages: 450 Size: 3.52 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Pearson Education M.U.A.
Published: 03 October, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781292054926

The second edition of Statistics and Data Analysis for Nursing, uses a conversational style to teach students how to use statistical methods and procedures to analyze research findings. Students are guided through the complete analysis process from performing a statistical analysis to the rationale behind doing so. In addition, management of data, including how and why to recode variables for analysis, how to “clean” data, and how to work around missing data, is discussed.

Wound Care at a Glance

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Author: Ian Peate, Wyn Glencross.
Pages: 124 Size: 11.3 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 25 February, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781118995556

Wound Care at a Glance combines superb illustrations with accessible and informative text to make the key concepts of wound care easy to understand. Providing practical guidance for all healthcare professionals who care for people with wounds, or who have an interest in this complex area of healthcare, it succinctly addresses a wide range of issues including relevant anatomy and physiology, psychological issues, physical care considerations, patient safety issues, legal and ethical issues, and various treatment and management options.

The Great Ormond Street Hospital Manual of Children’s Nursing Practices

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Author: Edited By Susan Macqueen And Elizabeth Anne Bruce, Faith Gibson.
Pages: 791 Size: 39 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 20 April, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781118274224

Clinical skills are a fundamental aspect of nursing care of children and young people. The Great Ormond Street Hospital Manual of Children`s Nursing Practices is an evidence-based manual of practical skills in children`s nursing which builds on the extensive expertise developed at Great Ormond Street Hospital. It encompasses all aspects of children`s nursing from the most basic aspects of everyday practice to advanced practice in high dependency and intensive care to provide a comprehensive resource for all qualified nurses, students, and other health-care professionals involved in caring for children, both in the hospital and the community setting. Children`s and young people`s nursing presents unique challenges. The Great Ormond Street Hospital Manual utilises the latest clinical research and expert clinical knowledge to address these challenges, and provides the underlying theory and evidence for nursing care of children. It provides a definitive guide to clinical skills procedures in children`s and young people`s nursing which enables nurses working with children and young people to practice confidently and deliver clinically effective family-centred care. Key features * Offers access to clinical procedures developed through the extensive expertise from Great Ormond Street Hospital * Contains evidence-based recommendations for expert care * Encompasses all aspects of children`s care * Contains procedures guidelines students can rely on and effectively use in practice following qualfication * Highlights specific needs of neonates and adolescents * Placed in the context of inter-disciplinary care of the child * Includes the rationale for each procedure – the `why` as well as `how` * Information presented in a similar way to The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures – offering continuity to those working in both adult and paediatric settings

Fast Facts for the Clinical Nurse Manager: Managing a Changing Workplace in a Nutshell, 2nd ed.

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Author: Barbara J. Fry.
Pages: 159 Size: 672 KB Format: EPUB Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 30 November, 2015
eISBN-13: 9780826127891

Clinical nurse managers face myriad challenges, including administrative, clinical, and interpersonal issues. This concise, practical resource offers wise guidance for nurses working in this complex, fast-paced role. Addressing common complaints and anxieties, it offers quick access to insights, proven strategies, and tools for effectively coping with such situations as institutional change, a multigenerational and multicultural workforce, resistance to change, and toxic behaviors. Fully updated and revised, the second edition provides sound advice addressing the changing dynamics in health care that have amplified the challenges of clinical nurse management. It offers strategies for boosting staff morale during times of fear and anxiety, explains how to reclaim professional practice and focus on quality of care, advocates for nurses at senior levels, and discusses how to maintain one`s identity in an interdisciplinary setting. Designed to assist clinical nurse managers at all levels in developing new and effective ways of leading in a rapidly changing health care environment, this resource helps foster a better quality of work life and professional practice. It features concise chapters and bulleted information for quick access and at-a-glance “Fast Facts in a Nutshell” boxes. Also included are helpful tools and worksheets for managing a variety of challenges, along with the “Top 10 Fast Facts for Thriving in a Changing Workplace.” New to the Second Edition:

  • Completely updated and revised
  • New chapter, “Who Stole the Art of Nursing?”
  • New content on fostering and nurturing therapeutic relationships
  • More information on rewards and recognition to keep staff motivatedKey

Features:

  • Presents timely content ready to be applied in a professional setting
  • Presents information in an easy-to-access format with concise chapters, bulleted lists, and Fast Facts in a Nutshell boxes* Advocates a back-to-basics approach to clinical care
  • Packed with current, useful, and accessible information that fits in a pocket
  • Written by a noted author, keynote speaker, and facilitator highly experienced in helping nurses in leadership roles

Evidence-Based Nursing Care for Stroke and Neurovascular Conditions

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Author: Editor, Sheila A. Alexander.
Pages: 314 Size: 9.06 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 13 November, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781118485941

With the aging population ever growing, healthcare for persons suffering from stroke and related illnesses is increasingly important. Evidence-Based Nursing Care for Stroke and Neurovascular Conditions provides a comprehensive and practical guide for novice, experienced and advanced practice nurses working with patients suffering from stroke and other neurovascular conditions. With a focus specifically on neurovascular disorders, this highly detailed text offers easy-to-find information on evidence-based care guidelines. The book begins with a thorough introduction to normal cerebrovascular anatomy and physiology and common pathologic mechanisms, describing the unique challenges in working with this patient group. Later chapters provide the pathophysiology, diagnostic and current nursing interventions for the care of patients with neurovascular disorders including transient ischemic attacks, ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, Moyamoya, Migraines and more. Evidence-Based Nursing Care for Stroke and Neurovascular Conditions is a must-have resource for practitioners caring for patients enduring stroke and other neurovascular conditions.

Essentials for Occupational Health Nursing

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Author: Arlene Guzik.
Pages: 455 Size: 4.38 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 05 February, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781118517628

The scope of occupational health nursing practice has expanded and taken on a variety of roles, giving rise to opportunities for nurses to care for workers in various workplace settings. Essentials for Occupational Health Nursing provides a highly practical and accessible guide for nurses entering or already engaged in this important field. The text begins with the foundations for occupational health practice, covering the domain of occupational health and the role of the many professionals within the specialty. Subsequent chapters address program development, professional development, workplace regulatory requirements, workplace injury management and managing health and productivity. Case studies pertaining to fitness for duty and medical monitoring provide real-life scenarios to aid in learning.

Enabling Learning in Nursing and Midwifery Practice

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Sue West, Tim Clark And Melanie Jasper.
Pages: 270 Size: 924 KB Format: PDF Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Published: 20 March, 2009
eISBN-13: 9780470697917

With current Government targets to increase health and social care practitioners, there is an increased need for informed mentors and preceptors to support the development of the students and new health professionals. Enabling learning in nursing and midwifery practice: A guide for mentors seeks to underpin recent mentoring initiatives, exploring the impact of mentoring, supervision and preceptorship on professional practice, covering principles that underpin effective learning and providing practical guidance on mentoring and assessment strategies within practice settings. Enabling learning in nursing and midwifery practice: A guide for mentors addresses the inter-professional and policy context for mentorship, examines the nature of effective learning environments and provides mentors with the necessary tools to assist students in their development within a practice setting. It explores the use of reflective practice, virtual learning and other core resources to enhance and support learning in practice and addresses assessing practice, making correct judgements about student competence and the development of competence in newly qualified practitioners. Enabling learning in nursing and midwifery practice: A guide for mentors is an important resource text for practitioners seeking to support learning in practice as well as experienced mentors and preceptors seeking to update their skills and understanding. Key features

  • Evidence-based, practical guide to effective mentoring and preceptorship.
  • Integrates theory and practice.
  • Addresses the context of learning in practice and the challenges of clinical supervision.
  • Promotes understanding of the importance of assessing practice and managing the mentoring process.
  • Equips mentors to enable students and newly qualified staff to gain confidence and expertise Includes activities, points for reflection and examples from practice

Diabetes Education

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Trisha Dunning.
Pages: 271 Size: 3.65 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 23 August, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781118302385

Diabetes education is a process, the key to which is establishing a therapeutic relationship with the individual. The overall goal of diabetes education is to enhance the individual`s health capability, including their ability to solve problems and apply the learning to self-care. Thus, diabetes education is an interactive process of teaching and learning where information is co-generated. This innovative and thought-provoking new book explores the `how` of diabetes education, rather than the `what` and the `why`. Diabetes Education: Art, Science and Evidence helps healthcare practitioners teach diabetes effectively from diagnosis onwards and ensure people living with diabetes receive individualised support and information. It enables practitioners and educators to examine and reflect on their practice when managing the person with diabetes. Bringing together all the thinking and experience of the diabetes journey in one text, this book is essential reading for all practitioners and students involved in diabetes care. SPECIAL FEATURES: Features short stories, case studies, illustrative quotes, practice points and reflection points throughout Edited by an internationally renowned expert in the field Contributions from some of the world`s leading diabetes educators

Developing Multiprofessional Teamwork For Integrated Children`s Services

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Author: Angela Anning … [et Al.].
Pages: 157 Size: 4.42 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 May, 2010
eISBN-13: 9780335238125

This book is an important practical resource for all professionals engaged with planning, implementing and evaluating multi-professional teamwork and practice in children`s services. The first book to combine theoretical perspectives, research evidence from the `real world` of children`s services, and reflections on policy and practice in inter-agency services in England, this fully updated new edition retains its popular approach, while reflecting the numerous changes to policy, practice, and research. The book exemplifies what multi-professional work looks like in practice. It examines real dilemmas faced by professionals trying to make it work, and shows how these dilemmas can be resolved. It considers lessons to be learnt, implications for practice and recommendations for making multi-professional practice effective. Featuring useful guidance, theoretical frameworks and evidence-based insights into practice, this book is a key resource for students on courses studying early childhood and families, as well as social workers, teachers, support workers in children`s centres, family support workers, health workers, and managers of a range of children and youth services.

Design, Evaluation, and Translation of Nursing Interventions

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Souraya Sidani, Carrie Jo Braden.
Pages: 320 Size: 10.46 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 13 July, 2011
eISBN-13: 9780470961506

Nurse-led intervention research is a core component of the global initiative to improve quality of care. Though research in this area has already contributed much to the advancement of patient care, future strides depend on the dissemination of practical, how-to instruction on this important area of research. Design, Evaluation, and Translation of Nursing Interventions aids in this endeavour by presenting both general approaches and specific methods for developing nursing interventions. Logically organized to facilitate ease of use, the book is divided into four sections. The introduction provides a firm grounding in intervention science by situating it within the broader topics of evidence-based practice, client-centred care, and quality of care. Section Two describes each step of intervention design, including correct identification of the health issue or problem, clarification of the elements comprising an intervention, and application of theory. Section Three is centred on implementation, highlighting such topics as development of the intervention manual, training interventionists, and intervention fidelity. The book concludes with methods to evaluate interventions enacted and suggestions for their translation into practice. Design, Evaluation, and Translation of Nursing Interventions distills the authors` years of expertise in intervention research into comprehensive, easy-to-follow chapters. It is a must-have resource for students, researchers and healthcare professionals wishing to impact the future of patient care.

Crash Course: Metabolism and Nutrition

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Author: Amber Appleton, Olivia Van Bergen
Pages: 239 Size: 3.39 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Mosby
Published: 21 August, 2012
eISBN-13: 9780723437635

Now celebrating over 10 years of success – “Crash Course” has been specially devised to help you get through your exams with ease. Completely revised throughout, the new edition of “Crash Course” is perfectly tailored to meet your needs by providing everything you need to know in one place. Clearly presented in a tried and trusted, easy-to-use, format, each book in the series gives complete coverage of the subject in a no-nonsense, user-friendly fashion. Commencing with `Learning Objectives`, each chapter guides you succinctly through the topic, giving full coverage of the curriculum whilst avoiding unnecessary and often confusing detail. Each chapter is also supported by a full artwork programme, and features the ever popular `Hints and Tips` boxes as well as other useful aide-memoires. All volumes contain an up-to-date self-assessment section which allows you to test your knowledge and hone your exam skills. Authored by students or junior doctors – working under close faculty supervision – each volume has been prepared by someone who has recently been in the exam situation and so relates closely to your needs. So whether you need to get out of a fix or aim for distinction “Crash Course” is for you.

The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse as a Prescriber

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[edited By] Marie Annette Brown, Louise Kaplan.

Pages: 286 Size: 1.6 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 08 December, 2011
eISBN-13: 9780470963241

A new era of opportunity is emerging for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) to increasingly address gaps in access to quality healthcare. APRNs must be prepared to practice to the full scope of their education and abilities. As more and more states pass legislation enhancing prescriptive authority and fully autonomous practice for APRNs, a comprehensive resource on prescribing practices is needed. The increasing demands of today`s fast-paced healthcare environment require a new level of prescriber expertise. Knowledge about medication characteristics and effectiveness must be accompanied by an understanding of the context and process of prescribing. The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse as a Prescriber provides practicing APRNs and students with the information necessary to make fully informed, rational and ethical decisions as prescribers. This book opens with an overview of the role of the APRN prescriber and moves on to discussing practical issues such as managing difficult patient situations, special considerations when prescribing controlled substances, the influence of pharmaceutical marketing, state regulation, and legal aspects of prescribing. The book also examines barriers to prescribing, and the concluding chapter underscores key information to build cultural competence when prescribing. An evidence-based resource for all APRNs and APRN students, The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse as a Prescriber provides a comprehensive and practical resource essential for APRNs in all advanced practice roles.

The 10-Minute Clinical Assessment

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Knut Schroeder.

Pages: 835 Size: 7.27 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 12 September, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781119106364

Clinical assessment is at the heart of medicine. Health professionals working in busy clinical settings, such as general practitioners, nurse practitioners and hospital doctors on-call, often have to assess patients under considerable time constraints. This book teaches the reader how to gather clinical information effectively, accurately and safely even when time is at a premium. * Provides a systematic method of collecting and assessing relevant clinical information by suggesting step-by-step examination routines, including important patient-centred questions * Focuses on common symptoms and presentations * Treatment reflects the latest in evidence based practice (including latest NICE Guidelines) * Specifically covers the clinical skills assessment (CSA) part of the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) examination * Written by an experienced medical educator and practicing GP, in consultation with a multidisciplinary team of medical students, GPs, PG trainees, hospital doctors and nurses

ABC of Major Trauma

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David V. Skinner (Editor), Peter A. Driscoll (Editor)

Pages: 242 Size: 11.67 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Bmj Books
Published: 22 January, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781118332320

Prehospital care is a growing area in medicine, and emergency treatments are becoming more sophisticated as the potential to save lives grow. The fourth edition of this ABC has been thoroughly updated and includes new chapters on nuclear and biological emergencies.  Each chapter gives concise and clear guidance and is accompanied by excellent photographs and diagrams.  Edited and written by leading UK trauma authorities, this is a truly comprehensive and practical book for everyday use by emergency medicine staff, nurses, hospital doctors, paramedics, and ambulance services.

Advanced Paediatric Life Support: A Practical Approach to Emergencies

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Advanced Life Support Group.

Pages: 387 Size: 3.76 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 17 February, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781118947845

Advanced Paediatric Life Support is the internationally renowned manual on emergency paediatric care, written to support the course run by the Advanced Life Support Group. Using their structured approach, a tried and tested practical method of treating children during the crucial first few hours of a life threatening illness or injury, Advanced Paediatric Life Support is used by doctors, nurses and allied health professionals dealing with emergencies in children. Its clear layout and straightforward style make it a highly practical tool both for training and in the event of an emergency. The sixth edition includes major new features bringing it right up to date, including:

  • The latest International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) 2015 Guidelines
  • The latest consensus guidelines on paediatric trauma
  • Enhanced discussions on the importance of human factors
  • A new and improved design including full colour photographs and diagrams

Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs and Their Families: A handbook for healthcare professionals

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Editor, Linda L. Eddy.

Pages: 270 Size: 5.01 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 23 January, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781118517963

Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs and Their Families: A Handbook for Healthcare Professionals provides a guide for addressing the challenges of providing optimal general and routine care for the special needs population. More than just caring for the patients, the text stresses the importance of caring for their families as well. The book begins with chapters on common aspects of this population, including physical or sensory disabilities and developmental and learning disabilities. Subsequent chapters expound on more specific topics related to communication, mobility, emotional issues, quality of life, and end-of-life.Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs and Their Families is a must-have book for family and pediatric nurse practitioners, registered nurses, healthcare technicians, physician assistants and social services professionals who see these patients regularly as part of their daily patient load.

Achieving Competencies For Nursing Practice: A Handbook For Student Nurses

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Edited By Sheila Reading And Brian Webster.

Pages: 346 Size: 9.63 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 January, 2014
eISBN-13: 9780335246755

Quality patient care relies on the demonstration of competencies by nurses at all stages of their education and developing career. This exciting textbook is designed to help student nurses better understand the competencies set out by the NMC and equip them to achieve and demonstrate competency as they prepare to qualify as a nurse. The book is divided into sections that address the four domains of competency: professional Values; communication and interpersonal skills; nursing practice and decision making; and leadership, management and team working. Suitable for all student nurses on pre-registration degree programmes in nursing across the UK, the book includes examples and insights from the fields of adult, child, mental health and learning disability that reflect a range of clinical and community settings. Amongst other topics this book covers: communication skills; working with patients and their families; solving problems in practice; clinical decision making; working in interprofessional teams; and written by experts, each chapter challenges you to reflect on your own values and beliefs, giving you opportunities to learn and reflect on your nursing skills and knowledge. The chapters include reflective activities, portfolio activities, case studies & vignettes, key points and further resources. It is an essential purchase for all student nurses. Contributors: Mary Addo, Heather Bain, Debbie Banks, Mary Jane Baker, Owen Barr, Pauline Black, Jackie Bridges, Alison Brown, Jean Cowie, Debbie Good, Ruth Taylor, Kate Goodhand, Chris McLean, Yvonne Middlewick, Avril Milne, Eloise Monger, Delia Pogson, Mark Rawlinson, Beth Sepion, Steve Smith, Cathy Sullivan, Kay Townsend, and Alison Trenery. “What we have in this textbook is a user friendly but rigorous presentation of the main competencies for professional nursing practice. Its easy style and `readability` is one of its most pleasing features and the case studies, information boxes and key learning points give structure to the book as well as helping to engage readers. I recommend with enthusiasm this book to would-be readers. It is a solid and significant contribution to the on-going development of best nursing practice. It should be on the recommended reading list of any nurse who plans, delivers and evaluates patient care.” (Professor Hugh P. McKenna CBE, Pro Vice Chancellor, Research and Innovation, University of Ulster). “To date, I would consider this the `must-have` book on achieving competence for any nursing student in all four countries of the United Kingdom.” (Melanie Jasper, Professor of Nursing and Head of the College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University, UK).

Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing

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Edited By Constance Dahlin, Patrick J. Coyne, Betty R. Ferrell

Pages: 649 Size: 12.61 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 25 February, 2016
eISBN-13: 9780190204754

Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing is the first text devoted to advanced practice nursing care of the seriously ill and dying. This comprehensive work addresses all aspects of palliative care including physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs. Chapters include: symptoms common in serious illness, pediatric palliative care, spiritual and existential issues, issues around the role and function of the advanced practice nurse (APN), reimbursement, and nursing leadership on palliative care teams. Each chapter contains case examples and a strong evidence base to support the highest quality of care. The text is written by leaders in the field and includes authors who have pioneered the role of the advanced practice nurse in palliative care. This volume offers advanced practice content and practical resources for clinical practice across all settings of care and encompassing all ages, from pediatrics to geriatrics.

Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses at a Glance

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Ian Peate, Muralitharan Nair.

Pages: 168 Size: 44.9 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 02 February, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781118746271

Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses at a Glance is the perfect companion for study and revision for pre-registration nursing and healthcare students, from the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series. Combining superb illustrations with accessible and informative text, this book covers all the body systems and key concepts encountered from the start of the pre-registration nursing or healthcare programme, and is ideal for anyone looking for an overview of the human body. Providing a concise, visual overview of anatomy and physiology and the related biological sciences, this book will help students develop practical skills, enabling them to become caring, kind and compassionate nurses.

  • Superbly illustrated, with full colour illustrations throughout
  • Breaks down complex concepts in an accessible way
  • Written specifically for nursing and healthcare students with all the information they need
  • Includes access to a companion website with self-assessment questions for each chapter
  • Available in a range of digital formats- perfect for on the go study and revision

Basic Guide to Oral Health Education and Promotion

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Ann Felton, Alison Chapman, Simon Felton.

Pages: 314 Size: 262.49 MB Format: PDF Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Published: 20 September, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781118629420

Step by step course companion for dental nurses studying for the Certificate in Oral Health Education. Topics covered include dental structures, anatomy and physiology, oral diseases and prevention, the principles of education, oral health and society, promoting oral health in the 21st century, patient communication, project planning and workplace assignments. This second edition has been thoroughly updated in line with the substantial changes to the role of the dental nurse since the 1 st edition was published. To address this, a brand new section has been added on education and research.

Becoming a Reflective Practitioner

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Christopher Johns ; With Contributions From Sally Burnie, Simon Lee, Susan Brooks, Jill Jarvis And Others

Pages: 338 Size: 5.34 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 01 April, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781118492291

`Christopher Johns is an internationally recognised pioneer of reflective practice in nursing and health care` (Nursing Standard) Becoming a Reflective Practitioner provides a unique insight into reflective practice, exploring the value of using models of reflection, with particular reference to Christopher Johns` own model for structured reflection. Now in its fourth edition, this book has been completely revised and updated to include up-to-date literature and reflective extracts. Contemporary in approach, this definitive text contains a variety of rich and insightful reflective extracts that support the main issues being raised in each chapter, and challenges practitioners and students to question their own practice. Now with further scenarios and case studies included throughout, these extracts provide the reader with access to the experience of reflective representation helping to explicate the way in which reflective practice can inform the wider notion of professional practice. The fourth edition of Becoming a Reflective Practitioner should be essential reading to everybody using reflection in everyday clinical practice. Special Features New, fully updated edition of a seminal text in the field Includes an additional chapter looking at existing studies on reflective practice Scenarios and case studies provided throughout A practical guide to using reflection in everyday clinical practice

Beginning Reflective Practice

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Melanie Jasper.

Pages: 234 Size: 5.65 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Cengage Learning – M.U.A
Published: 13 March, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781408098851

A title within the Nursing and Health Care Practice series, Beginning Reflective Practice provides pre-registration nursing and health care students with all the tools required to fully understand and develop skills for reflective practice, with the goal of becoming a successful reflective practitioner. Clearly written and highly accessible, this new edition includes a wide number of examples and illustrations to assist with learning and understanding, simple introductions to theoretical perspectives along with key developments in nursing including the growing role of e-learning technologies, the relationship between reflective learning and evidence-based practice, and the increasingly recognised linkage between reflection, professional judgement and accountability. Fully up-to-date in line with NMC standards, this is an indispensable text for every trainee reflective practitioner.

Calculation Skills for Nurses

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Claire Boyd.

Pages: 209 Size: 56.94 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 19 February, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781118448953

Providing nursing students with words of wisdom and advice from real-life student nurses, Calculation Skills for Nurses enables you to calculate drug dosages with ease, boosting your confidence and competence in this core area of nursing practice. The book takes away the fear of calculations, making it approachable, easy and fun, and ties in with the NMC standards for pre-registration education and the Essential Skills Clusters. It is filled with examples and questions based on real life nursing and healthcare situations and includes key information displayed on the inside back cover for quick look-up on clinical placements.

The BUPA care home handbook: good practice guidance

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Edited By Graham Mulley, Clive Bowman, Michal Boyd, Sarah Stowe.

Pages: 467 Size: 3.44 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 20 October, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781118690314

“I would recommend each Home purchase a copy”- Ian Turner, Chair, Registered Nursing Home Association “Identifies a gap in the sector and offers a practical means of addressing the need.”- Des Kelly, OBE, Executive Director, National Care Forum The Care Home Handbook has one aim: to improve the care and wellbeing of residents in care homes. It informs, reminds and refreshes the reader`s knowledge, enabling care homes to meet the essential standards of care required of them. Aimed at all nurses and healthcare assistants working in care homes, this invaluable, unique and jargon-free resource will help staff deliver skilful care, prevent poor practice, and build knowledge and confidence when working with older people. Grounded in everyday practice, this handbook promotes professional and person-centred care that is safe, high-quality, caring and compassionate. It features sections on the resident`s journey, values and standards, core nursing skills, common clinical conditions, medicines management, infection control, and risk.

Communication Skills for Nurses

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Claire Boyd, Janet Dare.

Pages: 206 Size: 4.96 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 04 August, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781118767511

Survive placements and practice with this essential guide for all student nurses. Providing words of wisdom and advice from real-life student nurses, Communication Skills for Nurses is a handy, portable, and fun introduction to the key communication and interpersonal skills you`ll need on placement and as a registered nurse. Special features: * Developed by students, for students * Clear, straightforward, and jargon-free * Explains how to use your interpersonal skills effectively, communicate with patients with specific conditions, and handle both criticisms and compliments * Features tips and advice from real life nursing students * Examples and questions based on real life nursing and healthcare situations

Advanced Nursing Practice and Nurse-led Clinics in Oncology

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Farrell, Carole

Pages: 276 Size: 3.14 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 01 January, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781315797502

Over the past ten years there has been a dramatic increase in new nursing roles and nurse-led clinics within oncology. This unique handbook is a comprehensive companion for nurses studying and practising at an advanced level in this emerging field.

This text outlines and discusses roles, responsibilities and skills related to advanced practice in oncology nursing – including leadership, communication skills and prescribing – linking throughout to the implications for clinical practice. It then provides a step-by-step guide to setting up and developing nurse-led clinics, looking in more detail at clinics focusing on surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, clinical trials and follow ups, and providing an in-depth case example of a clinic set up for adjuvant Herceptin use.

Handbook of Long Term Care of The Childhood Cancer Survivor

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Grace A. Mucci, Lilibeth R. Torno.

Pages: 548 Size: 5.17 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 01 January, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781489975843

This authoritative reference examines in depth the myriad challenges facing pediatric cancer survivors and proposes a robust framework for structured follow-up of these patients through adulthood. Approaches to long-term follow-up include both established models of care and targeted models of lifelong surveillance of late effects by bodily systems and neurological outcomes. Sections devoted to quality of life and re-entry after treatment focus on key concerns such as health risk behaviors, school and career issues, psychological challenges, and care disparities. And a robust resources section adds extra usefulness to the expert coverage. Among the Handbook`s topics:

  • Developmental considerations in the transition from child and adolescent to adult survivorship.
  • Long-term follow-up roadmaps by disease and treatment.
  • Neuropsychological effects of pediatric brain tumors and associated treatment.
  • Building resiliency in childhood cancer survivors: a clinician`s perspective.
  • School issues and educational strategies for survivors of childhood cancer.
  • Educating and preparing the childhood cancer survivor for long-term care: a curriculum model for cancer centers.

A work of rare scope, scholarship, and clinical acumen, the Handbook of Long-Term Care of the Childhood Cancer Survivor is a rewarding, practice-building resource essential to a wide range of healing professionals, including primary care physicians, pediatricians, oncologists, nurses, psychologists, neuropsychologists, child psychologists, and licensed therapists.

Mosby’s Oncology Nursing Advisor E-Book

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Susan Newton, Margie Hickey, Jeannine M. Brant.

Pages: 490 Size: 8.71 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Mosby
Published: 10 September, 2016
eISBN-13: 9780323449113

Get quick access to the most important information surrounding cancer and oncology nursing care with Mosby’s Oncology Nursing Advisor, 2nd Edition. Covering everything from the various types of cancer and cancer treatment options to patient education and nursing best-practices, this indispensable nursing guide is like getting seven books in one! Plus, its user-friendly layout and straightforward coverage make it ideal for use in any clinical setting. With 17 new chapters, updated evidence-based content throughout, and proven patient teaching handouts, this new edition offers the authoritative guidance you need to provide the best possible oncology nursing care.

Smoking – what all healthcare professionals need to know

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Graham F. Cope.

Pages: 128 Size: 422 KB Format: EPUB Publisher: M&K Update Ltd.
Published: 28 March, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781907830594

Most people are aware of the risks of smoking in relation to lung cancer, heart disease and pregnancy but ignorant of its many other dangers. Smoking – what all healthcare professionals need to know is based on many years of detailed research. It presents substantial evidence that smoking actually affects every organ system in the body and is instrumental in many diseases. This book will enable a wide range of healthcare professionals (including general practitioners, nurses, surgeons, psychiatrists, dentists, physiotherapists, urologists, gastroenterologists, audiologists, ophthalmologists and dermatologists) to provide helpful, accurate advice and feedback to reduce smoking among their patients. Preventative medicine is an increasing priority today, and programmes to reduce smoking (whether at the national level or aimed at the individual) have been shown to be effective – both in terms of improving patient outcomes and reducing health service expenditure. This book should therefore be required reading for all healthcare professionals.

Case Studies in Gerontological Nursing for the Advanced Practice Nurse

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Case Studies in Gerontological Nursing for the Advanced Practice NurseEditors, Meredith Wallace Kazer, Leslie Neal-Boylan.
Pages: 426 Size: 27.76 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 08 February, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781118277829

As the fastest growing population sector worldwide, older adults are seen in almost every care setting in which clinicians practice. Developed as a resource for advanced practice nurses in any setting, Case Studies in Gerontological Nursing for the Advanced Practice Nurse presents readers with a range of both typical and atypical cases from real clinical scenarios. The book is organized into six units covering cases related to ageism, common health challenges, health promotion, environments of care, cognitive and psychological issues, and issues relating to aging and independence. Each case follows a similar format including the patient`s presentation, critical thinking questions, and a thorough discussion of the case resolution through which students and clinicians can enhance their clinical reasoning skills. Designed to promote geriatric clinical education through self-assessment or classroom use, Case Studies in Gerontological Nursing for the Advanced Practice Nurse is a key resource for all those dedicated to improving care for older adults.