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

      • 2nd Edition
      • February 27, 2025
      • Marian Luctkar-Flude + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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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, Second 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.
    • Pflegeassistenz Heute + E-Book

      • 2nd Edition
      • April 21, 2025
      • Kathrin Altmann + 1 more
      • German
      • Paperback
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      Sind Sie bereit, Ihre Ausbildung in der Pflege erfolgreich zu meistern? Suchen Sie nach einem generalistischen Lehrbuch, das Sie dabei optimal unterstützt?Dann sind Sie hier richtig!Mit einem Lehrwerk für Pflegehilfsausbildun... – Pflegehilfe, Pflegeassistenz oder Pflegefachassistenz.... Sie die Inhalte undlernen Sie alle wichtigen Bereiche der Pflege kennen – egal, ob Sie Pflegefachpersonen unterstützen oder selbstständig für Bewohner und Bewohnerinnen und Patienten und Patientinnen in stabilen Pflegesituationen sorgen.bekommen Sie eine sehr gute Wissensgrundlage – für die Pflege im stationären und im häuslichen Bereich und mit Pflegebedürftigen aller Altersgruppenlassen Sie sich von Pina, einer angehenden Pflegeassistentin, begleiten: deren Fragen werden durch die Sachinhalte im Buch beantwortet und Pina hilft Ihnen den Stoff zu verstehen.Pflegeassi... Heute unterstützt Sie durch:Lernzielkästen am Anfang der Kapitel – damit Sie wissen, worauf es ankommtMerke, Definitions- und Achtungshinweise – eine hilfreiche GedächtnisstützeZahl... Abbildungen – die Ihnen Handlungsabläufe verdeutlichenWiederh... am Ende der Kapitel - damit Sie kontrollieren können, ob Sie das Gelernte auch wiedergeben könnenNEU in der 2. AuflageBasiskompeten... klar und ausführlich erklärt, sie orientieren sich an der Ausrichtung „Stabile Pflegesituation“Best... Aspekte des Gesetzesentwurfs, die in Zukunft bedeutend bleiben (z. B. allgemeine und kompetenzorientierte Ansätze)Noch mehr pflegepraktische Inhalte und anschauliche Abbildungen zu PflegehandlungenInkl... Ihr E-Book bietet Ihnen zahlreiche wertvolle FunktionalitätenFarb... MarkierungenNotizen einfügenErstellen eigener LernkartenMarkierung... und Notizen teilenVorlesefunktio... BildergalerieOnline- und Offline-NutzungDiese... Titel richtet sich an Auszubildende der Pflegeassistenz, Pflegefachassistenz, Pflegehilfe, Altenpflegehilfe, Krankenpflegehilfe
    • Promoting Health

      • 8th Edition
      • March 20, 2025
      • Jane Taylor + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Promoting Health: The Primary Health Care Approach 8e supports a broad range of practitioners to understand the key values, principles, concepts and practices of health promotion in a primary health care context and apply these in their everyday work as health professionals.The book comprehensively explores the role of structural and systemic determinants of health and health equity, and the social, cultural, economic, commercial, political, natural and built environments.Fully updated throughout, the eighth edition addresses current global and local issues that impact on population health, including political and economic instability, climate change and pandemics.
    • Today's Medical Assistant

      • 5th Edition
      • February 7, 2025
      • Kathy Bonewit-West
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Gain the professional knowledge and skills you need to succeed as a Medical Assistant! Today's Medical Assistant: Clinical and Administrative Procedures, Fifth Edition helps you master the clinical and administrative procedures performed in this ever-expanding role. With guidelines reflecting the latest CAAHEP competencies, this resource uses videos and step-by-step instructions to help you learn key medical assisting skills such as measuring vital signs, administering medications, bandaging, venipuncture, and assisting with minor office surgery. It also covers administrative skills such as managing medical records, scheduling appointments, and basic medical coding, and provides a solid foundation in A&P. Written by expert educator Kathy Bonewit-West, this book has everything you need to develop competency and prepare for certification.
    • Study Guide for Today's Medical Assistant

      • 5th Edition
      • February 3, 2025
      • Kathy Bonewit-West + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Get the most out of your Today's Medical Assistant: Clinical and Administrative Procedures textbook with this practical study guide! With chapters corresponding to those in the textbook, this review provides the extra practice you need to master the clinical and administrative procedures performed by medical assistants. Each chapter includes a wide range of exercises, performance checklists, and a guide to the amount of practice you need to attain competency. Written by the textbook’s author, this review tool provides everything you need to master all of today’s important medical assisting skills!
    • Comprehensive Textbook of Community Health Nursing Including Environmental Science & Epidemiology (Two Volume Set), First Edition

      • 1st Edition
      • April 7, 2025
      • Neerja Sood + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      This book has been written with student nurses’ learning needs in mind, and it fully covers the Indian Nursing Council’s new revised syllabus for nursing degree and diploma courses. Although it primarily intends to cater to the curriculum demands of BSc Nursing and GNM students, it will also be extremely valuable for students of various other streams studying community health courses, MLHP, CCH, and MPH courses. The main principles have been conveyed in clear terms from the students’ perspective. The global and national health scenario and community health nursing principles are considered while explaining the role of community health nurses.
    • Thinking it Through: Clinical Reasoning, Clinical Judgement, and Decision Making in Canadian Nursing

      • 1st Edition
      • October 23, 2024
      • Karin L. Page-Cutrara
      • English
      • Paperback
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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: Clinical Reasoning, Clinical Judgement, and Decision Making in Canadian Nursing 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.
    • Alexander's Nursing Practice

      • 6th Edition
      • April 4, 2024
      • Ian Peate
      • English
      • Paperback
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      **Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Long Term Care and Home Care**Alexander’s Nursing Practice: Hospital and Home, Sixth Edition is the most comprehensive textbook available for undergraduate nursing students today.This resource will prepare students for their future role as healthcare professionals in a variety of settings. It covers all the basics of nursing, including care of patients with common disorders, core nursing issues like medicines management and infection prevention and control, and how to nurse specific patient groups. The sixth edition has been fully updated to incorporate the latest evidence, policies and registration requirements, and reflects the transformative changes currently occurring in healthcare policies, procedures and technologies.With a host of features to enhance the learning and teaching experience, this book will make a significant contribution to preparing compassionate nurses who will deliver patient-centred, high quality and holistic care.
    • Workbook for Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions

      • 8th Edition
      • October 10, 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.
    • Validez votre DEAS

      • 1st Edition
      • July 26, 2024
      • Jérôme Chevillotte
      • French
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Centré sur le contrôle de connaissances du nouveau diplôme d’Etat d’aide-soignant (DEAS), cet ouvrage répond aux exigences des candidats soucieux d’abordersérieusemen... l’ensemble du programme de la formation d’aide-soignant au regard du dernier référentiel mis en application en 2021 avec le découpage selonles 5 grands blocs de compétence et 10 modules :Module 1 : Accompagnement d’une personne dans les actes de sa vie quotidienne et de la vie sociale ;Module 2 : Repérage et prévention des situations à risque ;Module 3 : Évaluation de l’état clinique d’une personne ;Module 4 : Mise en œuvre des soins adaptés, évaluation et réajustement ;Module 5 : Accompagnement de la mobilité de la personne aidée ;Module 6 : Relation et communication avec les personnes et leur entourage ;Module 7 : Accompagnement des personnes en formation et communication avec les pairs ;Module 8 : Entretien de locaux et des matériels et prévention des risques associés ;Module 9 : Traitement des informations ;Module 10 : Travail en équipe pluriprofessionnelle... traitement des informations, qualité/gestion des risques.Pour chacun des 5 blocs de compétences, on trouve :une partie « méthodologie et conseils » pour mieux aborder les contrôles de connaissance ;300 exercices pour se tester (QCM, QROC, cas cliniques et schémas muets) ;la correction de l’ensemble des exercices.Méthodique et complet, cet ouvrage est l’outil pour préparer efficacement et réussir dans les meilleures conditions toutes les épreuves du DEAS.