Grounded in the belief that translating caring science within teaching practices will humanize nursing education, this important book emphasizes the ways in which teachers can translate Human Caring and Caritas in order to include strategies for establishing authentic caring pedagogical relationships with their students.
A monumental compendium of Caring Science past, present, and future. This groundbreaking work is an encyclopaedic reference on the full spectrum of Human Caring Science. With contributions from highly accomplished scholars and practitioners from six continents, it spans the evolution of Caring Science from its origins 40 years ago through its ......
Provides invaluable guidance for acing your Adult-Gerontology CNS exam. This comprehensive review manual provides the ultimate resource for either the AACN Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist Wellness Through Acute Care (ACCNS-AG) or the ANCC Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist (AGCNS-BC) certification exam.
The sixth edition of this text on advanced nursing role development is completely updated to encompass the full complement of current APRN practice roles. It illuminates the transition into practice of APRN master's and doctoral students, and emphasizes the APRN's role in influencing health policy, global health, and differentiated APRN practice ......
The only comprehensive and accessible collection of validated and reliable instruments for care measurement in clinical and educational nursing and health professions research. These measurements address quality of care; patient, client, and nurse perceptions of caring; and caring behaviours, abilities, and efficacy.
Breaking bad news is a common cause of anxiety for healthcare professionals. This book is a handy pocket-sized guide that will help you fulfil this difficult task as well as possible. This book will introduce you to a new model and mnemonic: S Set the scene U Understand your patient's perspective P Prepare your patient P Pass on the ......
Written specifically for the needs of family and adult nursing students, medical students, and primary care practitioners in Canada, this ""bible"" of family practice in America - named a 2013 Doody's core title - now provides current Canadian practice protocols for professional standards of care across the lifespan.
This is the first resource to give the APN the practical tools with which to communicate, assess, and treat obese patients. Designed to help APNs to easily broach an uncomfortable topic, the book walks practitioners through the exam, providing tips on effective communication, understanding lifestyle constraints, and working with the patient to ......
This seminal work, based on the philosophy of Watson's Human Caring Theory, is designed to help students and practitioners of nursing to simplify Watson's complex teachings and integrate them into everyday practice. The revised second edition includes an abundance of new micro practice examples for each Caritas process; practical exemplars from ......
Written by case managers for case managers, this reference manual for nurses and other health professionals presents a CMSA tested approach towards systematically integrating physical and mental health case management principles and assessment tools. CMSA's Integrated Case Management delves into the role of the case manager and unpacks how case ......
The importance of good communication between health professionals and patients has been well documented. This casebook/workbook helps students, faculty, and health care providers to assess and practice key interpersonal and health communication skills. It presents 45 communication scenarios for students to critique and rewrite in order to enhance ......
The eighth edition of this highly acclaimed text continues to deliver innovative, practice guidelines for evidence-based complementary and alternative therapies that can easily be incorporated into curriculum and applied directly to practice. It describes holistic treatments that are culturally appropriate for clients across the lifespan and ......
Comprehensively addresses the nursing care of the inmate-patient population. It is based on the requirements of the newly developed certification in correctional nursing, and will serve as a thorough study guide for this exam. It will also be useful as a quick reference for novice and experienced correctional nurses.
Concise and clearly organised, this resource features detailed, step-by-step instructions for physical examinations and diagnostic testing in the outpatient setting, information on health promotion, care guidelines, dietary information, information on culturally responsive care, patient resources, and abundant patient-education handouts.
How to Deliver Culturally Competent and Inclusive Care
Fills a crucial need in helping nurses to provide safe, culturally-competent care to LGBTQ+ patientsThis pivotal resource-the first written specifically for nurses-focuses on the unique health needs and inequities affecting LGBTQ+ patients and discusses how to provide them with safe, respectful, and holistic care. Written in an easy-access ......
Provides practical and accessible guidance for frontline nurses in the delivery of effective, compassionate care to patients with STIs. With a focus on these infections as a growing global-health problem, this book helps facilitate early identification, treatment, and prevention, including counseling and behavioural interventions.
Delivers concise, quick-access information about caring for patients with common physical complaints who also have a psychiatric diagnosis. It is the first book written for non-psychiatric nurses to address the needs of patients with co-morbid diagnoses, and facilitates the integration of skills and strategies that support recovery for patients ......
Explains all the requisites for demonstrating, guiding, and mentoring new nurses through the process of delivering safe, evidence-based, patient-centered care. The second edition builds upon the foundation of the first to address more complicated challenges preceptors face.
