The Go-To Guide for Nurses and Lactation Consultants
Evidence-based research underscores the importance of breastfeeding for the healthy development of late preterm infants, yet significant challenges can impede successful breastfeeding. This is a groundbreaking, problem-solving guide to the most effective techniques for breastfeeding this vulnerable population.
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.
The NP's and PA's Guide to a Comprehensive History and Deciphering the D
Written specifically for both the novice and experienced cardiovascular clinician in acute care settings, this is the only resource to focus on the art of conducting an indepth patient history. Using the steps and strategies outlined in this text, the cardiovascular clinician will learn to adopt a specific and detailed line of questioning to ......
Implementing Family-Centered Nursing Care for Optimal Outcomes
Focuses on nurturing the emotional health of patients and families to ensure improved outcomes. This innovative resource for neonatal nurses embodies family-centred care strategies for optimal outcomes through every phase of the NICU experience. It provides the education, inspiration, and resources so NICU health professionals can be emotionally ......
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 ......
Focuses on the practical knowledge and skills that both physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) need to be effective health care leaders in a multidisciplinary environment. Written by a recognized expert in physician assistant leadership, this engaging text helps PA and NP professionals to navigate the unique challenges they ......
From the ForewordWritten specifically for the AGNP-AC student or the incoming Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, this handy guide provides a quick but thorough reference on the basics of the many complex challenges encountered in the clinical rotation portion of the AGNP-AC curriculum. Conveniently spiral-bound, it covers key skills such as patient ......
Explains, through first-hand accounts, the clinical reasoning skills necessary for top-tier nursing in acute and critical settings. It includes new interviews from acute care, critical care, perioperative nurses, and more. Attention is paid to current IOM and nursing guidelines for systems approaches to patient safety, with education and ......
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 ......
A book for all nurses, but especially those who suffer from job dissatisfaction, compassion fatigue, moral distress, or burnout. Told from a first-person perspective, the work is based on research and is designed to provide practical steps for the nurse or nurses reading the book.
A Concise Guide to Prevention, Recognition, and Management
Awareness and preparedness for potential complications in the aftermath of acute stroke is as important as initial treatment to achieve good clinical outcomes. Complications of Acute Stroke is the first book to focus exclusively on specific post-acute stroke complications that require timely and urgent attention.
The sixth edition of this acclaimed neonatal nursing text is completely updated to encompass the most current research findings and strategies for providing cost-effective and evidence-based care. It continues to address neonatal care from a physiologic and pathophysiologic perspective, with a major emphasis on nursing management at the bedside.
You completed your DNP proposal and have approval to proceed: What's next? How do you move from proposal phase to conduct and complete your project? This text is the first to discuss the practical steps to implement and complete the project and will help DNP students to systematically transition from plan to action.
Concepts, Role, and Practice for the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
A comprehensive guidebook that clearly delineates the role of the nurse practitioner in the intensive care environment. It describes the complex pathophysiology and appropriate management of common problems that are encountered in the critical care environment, including trauma, infections, and disease.
A pocket-sized guide to help nursing students prepare for their critical care placement. Clinical placements can be intimidating to the unprepared. This pocket guide is designed to make critical care health placements less stressful and to help student nurses get the most out of their time in the critical care setting.
This newest addition to Springer's Pain Management Series for Advanced Healthcare Practitioners presents evidence-based national guidelines and treatment algorithms for managing pain in patients in the critical care, trauma, and emergency room settings. Such patients often present with co-morbid and complex conditions which often make accurate ......
Explores the cross-cultural interactions and conflicts between nurses and the diverse array of patients they may see. The book addresses what it really means to be culturally competent in nursing practice.
Featuring current, valid, and reliable evidence-based content, this is an unparalleled resource for disaster and emergency preparedness. While natural and man-made disasters are not new, the global nature, rate, type and totality their impact has increased. This fourth edition addresses the rapid changes in these crises and analyses attempts to ......
