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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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • Public Health Nursing

      • 11th Edition
      • March 13, 2024
      • Marcia Stanhope + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • LooseLeaf
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      **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Community Health**Gain a solid understanding of community and public health nursing with this industry-standard text! Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community, 11th Edition, provides up-to-date information on issues such as infectious diseases, natural and man-made disasters, and healthcare policies affecting individuals, families, and communities. This edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect current data, issues, trends, and practices presented in an easy-to-understand, accessible format. Additionally, real-life scenarios show examples of health promotion and public health interventions, and case studies for the Next-Generation NCLEX® Examination help strengthen your clinical judgment. Ideal for BSN and Advanced Practice Nursing programs, this comprehensive, bestselling text will provide you with a greater understanding of public health nursing!

    • A Clinician's Survival Guide to District Nursing

      • 1st Edition
      • October 3, 2024
      • Neesha Oozageer Gunowa + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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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.

    • Social Prescribing

      • 1st Edition
      • August 27, 2024
      • Heather Henry
      • English
      • Paperback
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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: Paradigms, Perspectives and Practice 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.

    • Preparing Nurses for Disaster Management

      • 1st Edition
      • February 15, 2022
      • Joanne Langan
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Learn how to plan for and respond to disasters! Preparing Nurses for Disaster Management: A Global Perspective helps you build the skills you need to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergency situations efficiently and effectively. It includes the personal stories of nurses who have experienced disasters, describing the specific incident, the response, what worked or didn’t work, and the lessons learned. Case studies show how to apply international response guidelines in providing care for those in need. Written by Joanne Langan, an internationally known expert in disaster preparedness, this reference will help you feel more confident in handling the aftermath of both natural and man-made disasters.

    • Community/Public Health Nursing

      • 8th Edition
      • October 1, 2022
      • Mary A. Nies + 1 more
      • English
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      **American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards, 3rd Place in Community/Home Health Care, 2023**Master the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in community health nursing! Community/Public Health Nursing, 8th Edition discusses the nurse’s role in population health promotion with a unique "upstream" preventive focus and a strong social justice approach, all in a concise, easy-to-read text. It shows how nurses can take an active role in social action and health policy — especially in caring for diverse and vulnerable population groups. This edition integrates the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model to help you prepare for the Next Generation NCLEX®. Clinical examples and photo novellas show how nursing concepts apply to the real world.

    • Fachpflege Außerklinische Intensivpflege

      • 2nd Edition
      • July 28, 2021
      • Christine Keller
      • German
      • Paperback
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      Profundes Lehrbuch für Selbststudium und Weiterbildung sowie übersichtliches Nachschlagewerk für die Praxis Dieses Fach- und Lehrbuch ist mit seinen Inhalten zur außerklinischen Intensivpflege speziell auf die Bedürfnisse der Pflegenden in der Praxis zugeschnitten. 22 Kapitel decken alle wichtigen Themen der außerklinischen Intensivpflege ab, z.B. Grundlagen aus Anatomie, Physiologie, Krankheitslehre, Hygiene und Recht Kenntnisse zur psychosozialen Situation von chronisch Erkrankten und zum Überleitungsmanageme... Wissen zur Beatmung: Atemgasklimatisierun... Tracheostomaversorgu... pflegetherapeutische... Handeln, Besonderheiten bei beatmeten Kindern Fakten zu Ernährung, enterale Sonden und Dysphagie Hilfe bei Notfällen Mit Definitions-, Merke- und Vorsichtskästen werden wichtige Aspekte hervorgehoben. Kleine Praxisbeispiele dienen zur Veranschaulichung der Inhalte. Das Fachbuch Außerklinische Intensivpflege dient sowohl als Kurslehrbuch, als auch als Nachschlagewerk für die Praxis. Das Buch verzichtet bewusst auf Grundlagenwissen und legt den Fokus auf praxisorientiertes Spezialwissen, das von Experten der AIP verfasst wurde. Neu in der 2. Auflage: ein Kapitel zu Palliativ Care Ideal für Pflegefachpersonen im Bereich außerklinsiche Intensivpflege, Intensivpflegedienst...

    • Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Health Nursing

      • 6th Edition
      • October 8, 2021
      • Marcia Stanhope + 1 more
      • English
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      Master the essentials of health promotion in community and public health nursing! Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Health Nursing, 6th Edition provides clear, concise coverage of the nurse’s role in preventing disease, promoting health, and providing health education in community settings. Case studies and critical thinking activities make it easier to apply concepts to community nursing practice. New to this edition are Healthy People 2030 guidelines and coverage of the latest issues, trends, and approaches. Written by well-known nursing educators Marcia Stanhope and Jeanette Lancaster, this streamlined text covers the fundamentals of designing effective nursing strategies for vulnerable and special populations.