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Edelman and Kudzma's Canadian Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span

  • 2nd Edition
  • March 3, 2025
  • Marian Luctkar-Flude + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Gain the knowledge and skills you need to promote health and prevent disease in Canada! Edelman and Kudzma's Canadian Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 2nd Edition describes public health concepts from a Canadian perspective, helping you to improve community health and reduce health inequities within a diverse population. Covering the needs of each age and stage of life, this book discusses care of the individual, family, and community — all based on the latest research and trends in Canadian health promotion. New chapters address the timely topics of Indigenous health and 2SLGTBQI+ health. Written by respected Canadian educators Marian Luctkar-Flude, Shannon Dames, and Jane Tyerman, this book is the only Canadian nursing health promotion text on the market.

Thinking it Through: Clinical Reasoning, Clinical Judgement, and Decision Making in Canadian Nursing

  • 1st Edition
  • February 3, 2025
  • Karin L. Page-Cutrara
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Written and developed by Canadians with the Canadian nursing context in mind, this new resource is the only fundamental Canadian-focused nursing text to support you in developing clinical reasoning skills and clinical judgement for decision making in nursing practice. Thinking it Through moves beyond the nursing process to deliver focused strategies using a unified process for thinking and decision making that is visible, relatable, real — and needed by future nurses. Introducing useful models and practical frameworks as essential nursing tools, this structured guide for nursing cognitive development is a valuable resource throughout every year of your nursing program.

Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review for Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants

  • 11th Edition
  • December 27, 2024
  • Leighann Remmert
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Streamline your study process and master essential nursing assistant skills with confidence! Corresponding to the chapters in Remmert’s comprehensive text, the Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review for Mosby’s Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 11th Edition reinforces your understanding with numerous exercises and review questions — including matching, multiple-choice, labeling, crosswords, and mini case studies. Checklists for each of the 100+ procedures in the text help you learn key skills. The Competency Evaluation Review section prepares you for the CNA exam with a review of content, a skills evaluation review, and two practice exams.

A Clinician's Survival Guide to District Nursing

  • 1st Edition
  • December 1, 2024
  • Neesha Oozageer Gunowa + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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A Clinician’s Survival Guide to District Nursing covers the specialist skills and knowledge nurses need to join the rapidly expanding, increasingly important community nursing workforce. The book is a quick reference guide designed to support autonomous decision making amid the wide range of conditions district nurses are expected to manage, recognising and highlighting the advanced skills of district nurses. It will help the reader understand what it means to work in the community, acquire the fundamental knowledge of clinical skills necessary to ensure best practice, and explore ways of working to ensure optimal care delivery through joined-up health and social services. Written by specialists in community nursing, this indispensable new book is ideal for students exploring district nursing as a career option, as well as nurses transitioning to a district nursing team role.

Workbook for Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions

  • 8th Edition
  • October 21, 2024
  • Tracie Fuqua
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Reinforce your understanding of disease processes with this practical workbook! With chapters corresponding to the chapters in the Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions, 8th Edition textbook, this workbook provides hands-on review and practice with anatomy labeling activities, review questions, vocabulary exercises, scenarios for patient screening and teaching, and more. This complete review will prepare you for success on classroom and certification exams, and help you apply your knowledge to the clinical setting.

Social Prescribing

  • 1st Edition
  • August 27, 2024
  • Heather Henry
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Social prescribing – the connection of people to communities, services and activities to meet their practical, social and emotional needs – has become an increasingly important element of healthcare policy. As debate intensifies over an appropriate national model, this new book provides the first comprehensive overview of the entire concept of social prescribing.Social Prescribing pulls together arguments, evidence and resources to define social prescribing and analyze how it can change lives. It considers a range of paradigms for improving health and wellbeing through social approaches, and provides real-life examples of where the theory has been realized in practice.The book is well-balanced and easy to understand, making it ideal for healthcare practitioners, researchers and policy makers who are interested in exploring the potential of social prescribing for improving health and wellbeing.Editor Heather Henry is former chair of New NHS Alliance (now The Health Creation Alliance CIC), which influences national health strategy and policy on health inequalities and wellbeing. Her NHS career in primary care as both a practising Queen's Nurse and NHS director, combined with her experience of the voluntary community and social enterprise sector, ideally qualifies her to curate and interpret a wide range of contributions from household names to seldom-heard voices.

Tabbner's Nursing Care 2 Vol Set

  • 9th Edition
  • August 1, 2024
  • Gabrielle Koutoukidis + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
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Tabbner’s Nursing Care is the main resource for Diploma of Nursing students and instructors. This well-established and highly respected book provides the knowledge and skills learners need to qualify as Enrolled Nurses.Written by a highly qualified team of editors and contributors, the book equips the learner to provide safe, competent and person-centred care. It teaches and prepares learners to apply critical and reflective thinking to decision-making, use healthcare technology and work as part of a healthcare team in a variety of settings.Complete with an accompanying workbook and a host of features to support and facilitate teaching and learning, Tabbner’s Nursing Care is the ideal contemporary, evidenced-based resource to develop competent and safe Enrolled Nurses of the future.

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