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Contemporary Nursing

  • 10th Edition
  • February 1, 2025
  • Barbara Cherry + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Get the big picture on professional nursing issues and prepare for leadership and management! Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management, 10th Edition ensures that you are prepared for the complex and rapidly changing world of today’s nursing. Coverage of key topics includes nursing theories and evidence-based practice, patient safety and quality care, clinical judgment, delegation and supervision, communication and interdisciplinary collaboration, and working within a multicultural and multigenerational environment. Written by noted nursing educators Barbara Cherry and Susan R. Jacob, this text not only prepares you for success on the NCLEX-RN® examination but for a role as an effective nursing manager and leader.

Addressing Contemporary Issues in Women’s Health, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 59-4
  • December 28, 2024
  • Stephanie Devane-Johnson + 1 more
  • English
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In this issue of Nursing Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Jacquelyn McMillian-Bohler and Stephanie Devane-Johnson bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Addressing Contemporary Issues in Women’s Health. Today’s women's health issues encompass a diverse range of challenges, and in this issue, top experts provide updates on many of the most pressing concerns in women’s health, including reproductive and mental health, wellness, obesity, and substance use disorder.

Pflegemanagement Heute

  • 4th Edition
  • August 9, 2024
  • Jutta Freund + 1 more
  • German
  • eBook
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Pflegemanagement Heute begleitet Sie auf Ihrem Weg zum Manager im Gesundheitswesen. Sie erhalten einen Überblick über alle wichtigen Themen im Bereich Management – strukturiert und leicht verständlich mit praxisnahen Beispielen!Das Buch ist so aufgebaut, dass es auch für den bereits im Management Tätigen ein wichtiges Nachschlagwerk ist. Neu in der 4. Auflage:Alle Texte aktualisiert und alle aktuellen pflegerelevanten Gesetzgebungen berücksichtigtNachhaltigkeitOnline-BeratungDigitalisierung als separates KapitelAusfallmanagementHealth Literacy bzw. Gesundheitskompetenz sind im Kontext von Pflegeberatung beleuchtetKapitel zu Pflegekammern mit Update zur aktuellen SituationDie Regelungen des neuen NachweisgesetzesGendergerechte Kommunikation über das ganze Buch, aber auch in einem eigenen UnterkapitelAktuelle Pflegepersonaluntergrenzen thematisiertDas Buch eignet sich für:Studierende PflegemanagementWohnbereichs-, Heim- und StationsleitungenAmbulante Pflegeleitungen

Healthcare Simulation in Nursing Practice, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 59-3
  • July 27, 2024
  • Penni I. Watts
  • English
  • Hardback
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In this issue of Nursing Clinics of North America, guest editor Dr. Penni I. Watts, Assistant Dean for Clinical Simulation and Training at the University of Alabama School of Nursing, brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Healthcare Simulation in Nursing Practice. Simulation is typically utilized in nursing education, but there are many important uses, and positive outcomes, for simulation in the clinical setting. Topics covered include simulation for improving communication skills, professional integrity and ethical considerations, designing evidence-based scenarios for simulation experiences, plus many more. Top experts explore these topics with an eye on relevance to practicing bedside nurses.

Global Health and Nursing

  • 1st Edition
  • May 17, 2024
  • Barbara Stilwell
  • English
  • Paperback
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Nurses are critical in addressing the great health challenges we now face. For the first time, Global Health and Nursing provides an overview of global health issues specifically for nurses. Critical topics covered in this exciting new book include the social determinants of health, planetary health, globalisation and migration. It highlights the importance of investment in the nursing profession, the role of gender, and how nurses can find a global voice to become influential leaders as we rebuild health systems post-pandemic. Written by Dr Barbara Stilwell, one of the UK’s most influential nurses and a champion for health workers and strong health systems, the book is suitable for all those interested in global health, including postgraduate nurses, nurse educators, practising nurses and nurses taking global health programmes.

Care of People Living with HIV: Contemporary Issues, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 59-2
  • April 26, 2024
  • Kara S McGee
  • English
  • Hardback
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In this issue of Nursing Clinics, guest editor Kara S. McGee brings her considerable expertise to the topic of contemporary issues in the care of people living with HIV. The landscape of HIV prevention and treatment has evolved significantly over the past few decades, and HIV is now a chronic, manageable illness. Medical advances in the treatment of HIV have translated to normal life expectancy for people living with HIV who are on effective treatment, and innovations in HIV prevention approaches means that we have the tools to significantly reduce the number of new HIV infections in the United States.

A Clinician's Survival Guide to Leadership and Management on the Ward

  • 4th Edition
  • April 6, 2024
  • Brian Dolan + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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When you become a ward or unit manager or allied health professionals team leader, your responsibilities change and you need a very different set of skills compared with your previous roles. You are now required to manage a team of staff with a set budget and are responsible for maintaining an environment in which people can work together efficiently and effectively. This new fourth edition of the Survival Guide to Leadership and Management on the Ward welcomes AHP Krishna Gohil to the author team of nurses Brian Dolan and Amy Lochtie, and thereby extends its guidance on these crucial skills to both nurses and allied health professionals.This book will help you toIdentify your responsibilities and best approaches as a manager to provide patients with a high standard of care through your staffBecome an even better leader through highly practical examples, suggestions and tipsManage your staff, time and budgetCreate a positive work environmentFamiliarize yourself with the new Nursing and Midwifery Council and Health and Care Professions Council standards

The Culture of Care, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 59-1
  • January 25, 2024
  • Kellie Bryant + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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In this issue of Nursing Clinics of North America, guest editors Kellie Bryant of Columbia University School of Nursing and Tiffani Chidume of Auburn University College of Nursing bring their considerable expertise to the topic of The Culture of Care. Although it has long been debated whether caring can be taught, guest editors and authors here examine best practices and strategies to provide optimal patient care. This issue will also address caring for special populations that face specific challenges and/or have been historically marginalized, with a focus on Black mothers and the LGBTQ+ community.

Care Trajectory Management

  • 1st Edition
  • January 23, 2024
  • Davina Allen
  • English
  • Paperback
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‘Care trajectory management’ refers to the work that nurses do to coordinate and organise patient care. It’s a relatively unseen element of the nursing role that is absolutely vital for patient safety and quality care.Care Trajectory Management for Nurses is the first ever textbook of its kind for nurse educators, practice facilitators and policy makers as well as undergraduate nurses. It is both a theoretical and practical resource covering the concepts and theories around the organisational components of nursing practice, derived the research of nurse academic Davina Allen.This excellent book will help prepare nurses to be the ‘glue’ in increasingly complex healthcare systems, and provides an excellent foundation for embedding this important subject into student curricula.

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