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Books in Nursing fundamentals and skills

  • Essential Enrolled Nursing Skills Workbook for Person-Centred Care

    • 3rd Edition
    • Gabby Koutoukidis + 1 more
    • English
    Comprehensive and reliable teaching and learning resourceThe 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.

  • Communication

    Core Interpersonal Skills for Healthcare Professionals
    • 5th Edition
    • Gjyn O'Toole
    • English
    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.

  • Casos de razonamiento clínico en Enfermería

    Selección de casos pediátricos y obstétrico-ginecológicos
    • 8th Edition
    • Mariann M. Harding + 1 more
    • Spanish
    Aprenda a hacer juicios clínicos de enfermería con Casos de razonamiento clínico en enfermería. Selección de casos pediátricos y obstétrico-ginecológ... 8ª edición. Galardonado con el segundo puesto en los Premios AJN 2019 al Libro del Año en la categoría Médico-Quirúrgica, este recurso de estudio de casos es muy apreciado por sus casos clínicamente relevantes y que invitan a la reflexión. Actualizado para reflejar los estándares más actuales de la práctica clínica, este volumen recopila 27 casos reales de estudio en las especialidades de Pediatría y Obstetricia/Ginecolo... Cada caso cubre un problema común del paciente extraído de experiencias clínicas reales y escrito por enfermeras expertas en la práctica clínica, e incluye un fuerte enfoque en las competencias de colaboración interprofesional.

  • Simulation-Based Education

    A Practical Approach for Health and Care Educators
    • 1st Edition
    • Elizabeth Simpson + 2 more
    • English
    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-... Education: A Practical Approach for Health and Care Educators 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.

  • Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques

    • 11th Edition
    • Anne G. Perry + 3 more
    • English
    Track your performance of clinical nursing skills with this convenient resource! Skills Performance Checklists makes it easy to document and assess your proficiency in each of the more than 200 skills and procedures presented in the Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 11th Edition text. Simply follow these checklists step by step, mark the completion of each step, then tear off the perforated pages to submit your work for evaluation. It’s an excellent tool for building and assessing essential nursing skills!

  • Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques

    • 11th Edition
    • Anne G. Perry + 3 more
    • English
    **2026 PROSE Award Finalist in Nursing & Allied Health Services**Learn the clinical nursing skills you will use every day and prepare for success on the Next-Generation NCLEX® Examination! Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 11th Edition provides clear, step-by-step guidelines to more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills. With more than 1,200 full-color illustrations, a nursing process framework, and a focus on evidence-based practice, this manual helps you learn to think critically, ask the right questions at the right time, and make timely decisions. Written by a respected team of experts, this trusted text is the bestselling nursing skills book on the market!

  • Developing Clinical Judgment for Professional Nursing Practice and NGN Readiness

    • 2nd Edition
    • Donna D. Ignatavicius
    • English
    **American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards, 2nd Place in Nursing Education/Profession... Development, 2024**Develop the clinical judgment skills needed to pass the Next-Generation NCLEX-RN® Exam (NGN) on your first try with this one-of-a-kind workbook! Developing Clinical Judgment for Professional Nursing Practice and NGN Readiness, 2nd Edition provides practical thinking exercises and case studies to help you build clinical judgment skills and make safe clinical decisions. The workbook offers practice with all NGN item types, including the new "bowtie" items. And all core nursing content areas are covered, with chapters organized to guide you through the entire NGN test plan. From renowned nursing educator Donna D. Ignatavicius, this practical resource ensures that you’re ready for all the item types you will encounter on the NGN and ready to apply clinical judgment skills in RN practice.

  • Healthcare in the Arabian Gulf and Greater Middle East: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals

    • 1st Edition
    • May McCreaddie + 2 more
    • English
    Healthcare in the Arabian Gulf and Greater Middle East: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals is the first evidence-based, English-language textbook to provide a comprehensive overview of healthcare in this region, where health systems are rapidly evolving and feature large numbers of expatriate health professionals serving a population with diverse ethnic, social, cultural and environmental needs.This unique book covers relevant research, conditions and appropriate interventions and treatment. Readers will gain an insight into the key health challenges of the region and how to approach them, as well as local healthcare structures and cultural considerations such as Islam and healthcare, culturally competent communication and the role of the family.Written by experienced international and local academics and professionals, this book will be invaluable for students, healthcare professionals and anyone interested in working in this fascinating region.

  • Concepts for Nursing Practice (with eBook Access on VitalSource)

    • 4th Edition
    • Jean Foret Giddens
    • English
    **Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Fundamentals**Learn a conceptual approach to nursing care and how to apply concepts to a wide variety of clinical settings! Concepts for Nursing Practice, 4th Edition uses a straightforward, intuitive approach to describe 60 important concepts, spanning the areas of patient physiology, patient behavior, and the professional nursing environment. Exemplars identified for each concept provide useful examples and models, helping you more easily understand concepts and apply them to any clinical setting. To reinforce understanding, this text also makes connections among related concepts via ebook links to exemplars of those concepts in other Elsevier textbooks in your ebook library. New to this edition are six new concepts and a focus on related core competencies. Written by conceptual learning expert Jean Giddens, this authoritative text will help you build clinical judgment skills and prepare confidently for almost any clinical nursing situation.

  • Potter and Perry's Fundamentals of Nursing_3SAE and Complimentary Handbook of Health/Nursing Informatics_1e

    • 1st Edition
    • Suresh Sharma + 1 more
    • English
    Potter & Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing is a widely appreciated textbook on nursing foundations. Its comprehensive coverage provides fundamental nursing concepts, skills, and techniques of nursing practice, with a firm foundation for more advanced areas of study. This South Asian edition of Potter and Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing not only provides the well-established, authentic content of international standards but also caters to the specific curriculum requirements of nursing students of the region.Handbook of Health/Nursing Informatics and Technology is written based on the revised IndianNursing Council (INC) syllabus. This book is supplemented with diagrammatic presentations, flowcharts, key points in the boxes and tables. Each chapter’s text is provided with diagrams wherever felt essential to explain the text.