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Fundamentals of Nursing

  • 12th Edition
  • March 17, 2025
  • Patricia A. Potter + 4 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
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Study Guide for Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing

  • 7th Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • Patricia A. Williams
  • English
  • Paperback
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Reinforce your understanding of basic nursing concepts and skills! Corresponding to the chapters in Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 7th Edition, this study guide provides the review and practice you need to master essential LPN/LVN knowledge. Engaging exercises and questions help you learn to apply the nursing process, set priorities, practice critical thinking, make good decisions, and communicate effectively. With this practical review, you will get more out of your textbook and prepare for success on the Next Generation NCLEX-PN® exam.

Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing

  • 7th Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • Patricia A. Williams
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Learn the basic concepts and fundamental skills that LPN/LVNs need in current practice! Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 7th Edition, prepares you for nursing practice in a variety of care settings, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, medical offices, clinics, surgery centers, and home care agencies. Illustrated, easy-to-read guidelines provide a thorough understanding of the nursing process and problem solving, addressing topics such as the physiologic and psychosocial needs of the patient, critical thinking and clinical judgment, communication, collaboration with the health care team, patient teaching, and cultural competence. Ideal for LPN/LVN programs with a concept-based curriculum, this text prepares you to pass the Next Generation NCLEX-PN® Exam and succeed in any care setting.

Learning to Care

  • 2nd Edition
  • August 16, 2024
  • Ian Peate
  • English
  • Paperback
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As the role of the nursing associate becomes increasingly embedded in health and care in the UK, this popular text is designed to fully prepare students for their future professional role as competent and compassionate nursing associates. Learning to Care is written by a team of leading educators and practitioners to meet the specific needs of student nursing associates. It is straightforward to read and understand, covering everything from how to learn and how to write an essay, to fundamental anatomy and physiology and how to manage common disorders. This second edition has been fully updated to address evolving trends, making it ideal for all student nursing associates, educators and practitioners.

Alfaro’s Clinical Judgment in Nursing: A How-To Practice Approach

  • 8th Edition
  • August 10, 2024
  • Donna D. Ignatavicius + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Develop the multiple types of thinking you need to make safe, appropriate clinical judgments! Alfaro’s Clinical Judgment in Nursing: A How-To Practice Approach, 8th Edition, brings these concepts to life through engaging, easy-to-understand language, diverse learning activities, and real-life clinical scenarios. This edition emphasizes readiness for nursing practice and the Next-Generation NCLEX® exam, with a focus on the six cognitive (thinking) skills needed to make evidence-based clinical judgments.

Essential Enrolled Nursing Skills Workbook for Person-Centred Care

  • 3rd Edition
  • August 1, 2024
  • Gabby Koutoukidis + 1 more
  • English
  • Other
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The Essential Enrolled Nursing Skills for Person-Centred Care Workbook supports learners to develop the confidence and skills they need to successfully undertake and complete clinical skills during their course and graduate to become safe, knowledgeable and competent Enrolled Nurses.The workbook covers the knowledge and skills a learner will need to work as part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team. This includes how to support individuals in their activities of daily living and plan care to ensure individuals have positive outcomes and can reach their health goals. This resource will help learners strengthen critical thinking and problem-solving skills and develop proficiency in providing person-centred care.This edition has been fully updated by clinical and academic experts to reflect current best practice and the requirements of the Diploma of Nursing.

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.

Communication

  • 5th Edition
  • July 22, 2024
  • Gjyn O'Toole
  • English
  • Paperback
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Essential guide to better communication in practice Communication is a core skill for all healthcare professionals, regardless of their specific discipline. The fifth edition of Communication: Core Interpersonal Skills for Healthcare Professionals provides a comprehensive introduction that will be invaluable for students undertaking any training program in health. The book guides students toward an understanding of all the basic communication techniques and skills they will need in practice. They will learn to develop self-awareness about the impact their words and actions might have on others, use a person-centred model to reconstruct their communication style and approach, and then apply their new knowledge and skills to real-life scenarios. Easy to read and logically ordered over four sections, this book will guide students towards developing lifelong communication skills that will ultimately enable optimal person-centred care, successful therapeutic relationships and positive patient outcomes.

Simulation-Based Education

  • 1st Edition
  • April 29, 2024
  • Elizabeth Simpson + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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With an increasing focus on Simulation-Based Education (SBE) in health care, this new book is a step-by-step guide to becoming an effective SBE educator. Simulation-Based Education provides practical advice for undergraduate and postgraduate educators on how to plan and deliver SBE across a range of health and social care disciplines. It covers the planning, delivery and evaluation of SBE, hints and tips for success, and interactive immersive simulation in a variety of education settings. Written by SBE specialists from across the healthcare disciplines, the book uses a ‘workshop’ approach that encourages readers to evaluate their current practice and apply new knowledge to develop their strengths, making it invaluable for the entire SBE team.

Casos de razonamiento clínico en Enfermería

  • 8th Edition
  • March 13, 2024
  • Mariann M. Harding + 1 more
  • Spanish
  • eBook
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Los casos incluyen contenidos integrados sobre farmacología, nutrición y pruebas diagnósticas y de laboratorio, para animar a pensar de forma crítica sobre todos los aspectos de la atención al paciente. Cada caso refleja las últimas prácticas clínicas basadas en la evidencia e integra habilidades y conceptos relacionados con el proceso enfermero. El uso de ilustraciones otorga al libro atractivo visual y permite ampliar el tipo de preguntas. El foco dirigido a la colaboración interprofesional identifica oportunidades de colaboración con otras profesiones. Incluye las key answers para los casos al final de libro.

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