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 ......
Delivers a transcendent worldview uniting science, metaphysics and a cosmology of Love, in the service of healing humanity This innovative publication addresses metaphysics as a core consideration and foundation for the evolution of nursing in the context of Watson's Unitary Care Science. If affirms and invites a maturing of the nursing ......
Implications for Clinicians, Educators, and Leaders
Freshly updated, this acclaimed text demonstrates how nurses can promote caring relationships with individuals, groups, and communities in various health care settings to ensure better patient outcomes, lower costs, and greater clinician well-being. The book is grounded in the author's Quality Caring Model (c), a middle range theory that analyzes ......
"A graphic memoir and adapted oral history of Unit 371, an inpatient AIDS care hospital unit in Chicago that was in existence from 1985 to 2000. Examines the human costs of caregiving and the role art can play in the grieving process"--
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 ......
Clinical Strategies, Medical Considerations, and Practical Interventions
Focuses on four challenging aspects of psychiatric nursing: keeping the patient safe, stabilizing symptoms, promoting engagement in treatment, and discharge planning. In an easy-to-access format, the book offers evidence-based interventions and concrete strategies that can be used to alleviate patient distress and effectively deliver care.
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.
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.
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.
