This quick-access orientation guide-the only one written by experienced acute care nurses-delivers all the information new AG-ACNP practitioners and students need for skilled clinical practice across the adult lifespan. Organized with a clinical system-based approach, this resource puts vital information at your fingertips with succinct, ......
Provides cardiac care nurses with speedy access to information and guidelines they use daily. Heavily updated with the newest clinical practice information, this third edition emphasizes postoperative complications and the nursing interventions designed to prevent and treat them.
The only book for nurses new to the cath lab environment, this quick-access orientation guide clearly explains the nurse's primary responsibilities during routine diagnostic and interventional procedures. The second edition is updated with the most current guidelines, a completely new chapter on Adults with Congenital Heart Disease, and new images ......
Delivers practice essentials for Clinical Nurse Leaders in all settings. Focusing on the broad responsibilities of the advanced clinicians in this growing field, this book provides evidence-based, step-by-step guidelines for incorporating the required CNL competencies into day-to-day practice.
Focuses on current, ICU-specific information needed daily by busy ICU nurses. This updated, quick-access guide for critical care nurses covers the most common admitting diagnoses and reviews their causes, signs and symptoms, and interventions.
Guide to a Successful Emergency Department Orientation
This bestselling resource has successfully prepared thousands of ER nurses to provide safe, effective, and high-quality care to their patients. This new edition is updated with guidelines from the American Heart Association, Neonatal Resuscitation Program, American Stroke Association, Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course, and Trauma Nurse Core ......
Written for novice neonatal nurses and those new to the NICU, this concise, easy-to-use resource delivers all the essentials of daily practice for the care of neonates and their families. This second edition provides more in-depth content on high-risk conditions to promote the safest, high-quality care to the entire neonatal patient population.
The second edition of this pocket-sized resource for radiology nurses continues to demystify complex procedures by providing concise yet comprehensive information on the basics of radiology. Describing essential procedures and protocols in quick access style, the book covers over 50 different Interventional Radiology procedures.
This time-tested reference provides quick access to information busy school nurses need to practice competently and efficiently. Written for both new and experienced school nurses, it delivers consistently organised information in bulleted format with concise paragraphs. This third edition has been substantially revised.
Freshly updated with the newest evidence-based techniques and protocols, this practical clinical resource distils the fundamentals of wound care for novice nurses and nurses new to wound care. This guide walks through the common, complex and atypical wounds nurses see and includes abundant colour images.
This mentor-in-a-book will help nursing students develop a high-quality, well-organized DNP project paper by using the time-tested, proven IMRaD (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion) format-the gold standard for scientific writing in health care.
Provides RNs and nursing students with an accessible, concise, step-by-step introduction to the essentials of informatics and its impact on patient lives. The book delivers required competencies and frameworks for both nursing education and practice, expanding on integral systems and technologies within the health care system.
Provides a wealth of proven anti-bullying resources for all nursing settings. This pocket-sized, quick-access guide gives nurses crucial information they need to know to understand, identify, and effectively counter incivility, bullying, and violence in all nursing settings. Viewing nurse bullying as an institutional problem, this text expounds ......
A Stress-free Guide for Novice Researchers in Nursing and Healthcare
While often greeted with trepidation, the importance of a research project - how it is conducted and its significance to practice - is an essential aspect of nursing and other healthcare arenas. This book is a user-friendly introduction to evidence-based practice and other types of research-based initiatives that improve patient outcomes.
Presents a multitude of practice examples to help critical care students and practitioners grasp and excel at key concepts of 12-Lead EKG and dysrhythmia interpretation. This straightforward resource is ideal for new graduates and nurses who are considering a switch to critical or acute care.
Written for neonatal and paediatric nurse practitioner students, this book explores the developmental physiology of premature and term infants and presents common diseases that affect this specialized population. It offers an innovative and engaging approach to learning normal and abnormal physiology.
Provides an analysis of Florence Nightingale's legacy that goes beyond established scholarship to examine her lesser known-and arguably even more important-writings beyond Notes on Nursing. The book demonstrates afresh her unparalleled and ongoing influence on professional nursing, on the core concepts of health, disease, and access to care as we ......
Callista Roy, one of nursing's leading theorists and creator of the widely used Roy Adaptation Model of Nursing, presents a unique pathway for developing knowledge for nursing practice. Her book distils the most relevant information from 200 published research studies to provide a roadmap for progressing from nursing research to middle-range ......
